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This entertaining 60-minute intermediate lesson includes vocabulary, a video, comprehension questions, discussion questions, and a bonus video. Have fun discussing “playing hooky” with your students! Warm-up Questions (5 minutes) Playing hooky, blowing off, cutting,...
Use the discussion questions, vocabulary and video for an engaging advanced conversation lesson. *Note: The video contains English-speaking and Mandarin-speaking with English subtitles, so this lesson won’t be good listening practice for Mandarin-speaking students,...
Use this very simple, no-prep lesson to let your students use imperatives and directions to speak and have fun. This is a very easy lesson for teachers, but one that children love! Basically, this...
Find Someone Who is a great speaking activity that I’ve described in detail here, but in it’s original form, this activity requires pretty good reading and writing skills, so how can you use it...
This fun and easy-to-modify conversation lesson lets young students speak, draw and have fun at the same time. It can be modified to teach or review different sentence structures or vocabulary words depending on...
Getting young students, especially children too young to read or write, to have a full conversation in English can be tough. Use this 60-minute lesson to give your students plenty of speaking practice! All...
An hour-long, conversation lesson with a discussion about social media, an emotional video, and an opportunity to use new phrasal verbs in conversation. You can download the PDF with the vocabulary exercises, story, and...
Being polite in English is all about “softening” the language and this fun hour-long lesson teaches students how to do just that. Materials to prepare before class: Step 1: Post-it notes (10 minutes) Before...
This fun, memorable, and simple lesson makes learning the rules for “too” and “enough” easy for ESL students. Download and print the worksheet and discussion questions before class. Step 1: Rules (5 minutes) Let...
So and such is a deceptively tricky grammar topic but luckily there’s an easy way to teach and learn it with guided discovery! Download the worksheet below and print it out for your students...
