When Pigs Fly: A Lesson Plan on Idioms
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan centers on a fun, interactive activity that allows students to explore and understand common English idioms.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
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Intro to Microsoft Word
(View Complete Item Description)Do you want to learn the basics of how to use Microsoft word? This web site offers easy to understand video lessons. In addition to the audio lessons, the site offers supplement materials.
Material Type: Lecture, Lesson Plan, Student Guide
A Story about Taxes For Beginning Adult ELLs
(View Complete Item Description)This is a picture story and worksheets to help low level English language learners understand how to get help will filing their taxes and what documents are needed.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Primary Source
Weather Idioms lesson
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this lesson is for students to be exposed to, understand, and begin using common American-English idioms. Students will practice using the idioms through speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
ESL Health
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is an ESL lesson about health suitable for teens and adults. It includes questions about health and a video about fast food restaurants with a listening activity.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture
Smartphones in Adult ESL Instruction: picture prompts and review
(View Complete Item Description)This is a video that shows how adult ESL students use smart phones to take and share pictures. The teacher explains the variety of topics she uses the pictures for and students can be seen showing discussing the pictures.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Video: Family English
(View Complete Item Description)This video shows how writing letters for and about family can help someone learn English as a second language.
Material Type: Lecture
Cause and Effect in Reading Passages
(View Complete Item Description)This is a lesson that introduces students to cause and effect in reading passages. It also includes signal words that can assist students in identifying cause and effect. This is the introductory lesson. Extension activity (challenge) allows students to write their own cause and effect statements.
Material Type: Lesson
Comparing prices: Shopping for the Beginning Adult ESL learner
(View Complete Item Description)Comparing sales ads for the Shopping Unit for Beginner Adult ESL learners. Using sales ads students will learn how to figure out sale prices, percentage discounts, and final cost of items. They will compare ads from advertisers, compare like items, and find the best price available. Students will learn how to make sentences using comparatives (and superlatives – for higher level ESL learners.)
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive
The Penny: ESOL Intermediate Reading Activity
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this lesson is for High Intermediate to Advanced adult ESOL students to learn new vocabulary, practice reading, and hone their conversation skills while learning about the use of the penny in the United States.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Fahrenheit to Celcius Conversions for the Adult ESL Learner
(View Complete Item Description)Adult ESL learners may not know the American measurement system. The United States is one of only five countries still using Fahrenheit to measure temperatures (see list below). Simplifying the conversion can help our learners make sense of local temperatures. The method below is “a reasonable approximation”, not an exact calculation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Lesson Plan
ESOL Earth Day
(View Complete Item Description)The purpose of this lesson is for students to practice and improve English conversation, writing, vocabulary, and reading through the lens of the Earth Day holiday (April 22nd). Also, students can brainstorm and share what we can do to preserve the Earth on a global or personal scale.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Parts of the Body, an ESL Lesson Plan for Adult Literacy or Low-Beginning Level Students
(View Complete Item Description)An integral component of the adult ESL literacy and low-beginning level course outlines is an introduction to the parts of the body. The author addresses this content area, suggesting a variety of classroom activities and instructional strategies which promote student success in the development of this competency
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Prefixes Say Plenty TV411
(View Complete Item Description)This website gives a short written explanation and plenty of practice for common prefixes. There is also a video on prefixes and other interactive activities for suffixes and more.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Interactive
Building Community Adult ESOL Lesson Plan
(View Complete Item Description)The lesson plan is useful for building community in an Adult ESOL class for intermediate and advanced level students. The plan contains icebreakers and a review of adjectives that describe character.
Material Type: Game, Lesson Plan
Time Clauses with When, Before, After -- Movie Segment
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is a good review for adult or teen ESL learners on time clauses. The movie, In Time, is set in a futuristic world where time is the currency. After ten questions on what happens before or after another, there are three interesting discussion questions.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan
Percent Shopping
(View Complete Item Description)Students solve five problems in each level of this interactive game, beginning by selecting from one to five toys and adding their prices. This determines the challenge level of the activity. In Level 1, students find the sale price when the original price and percent discount are known. In Level 2, they find the percent discount when the original price and the sale price are known.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
What's in Your House?
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson presents common household vocabulary. It includes activities for cooperative learning, student interviews, and vocabulary development.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
A Visit to the Local Supermarket
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson introduces ESOL or ELL students to common food items and their location on supermarket shelves. The lesson also provides an overview of the organization of supermarkets and the distribution of food items along different aisles. Materials include a list of vocabulary, cooperative learning activities, and a handout to complete while visiting the supermarket.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Helpful Websites for ELL Students
(View Complete Item Description)Online instruction is an important supplement to traditional classroom instruction. However, internet access is not always available to all students. This lesson presents options for students without a home computer. It also lists 5 helpful ESL/ELL websites.
Material Type: Lesson Plan