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ESL/EFL Carnival of Lessons

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Karenne Sylvester

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Young Learners

General English

Barbara Sakamoto

**All levels

Students use their existing language and strategies to successfully explain an arrangement of objects to other students, without visual support. The goal is to get students comfortable with using imperfect English to communicate, rather than waiting for the day when they might be able to express themselves perfectly :)

  • prepositions of place

speaking

Sabrina de Vita

  • Listening, Watching, Writing
  • Recalling/ Reproducing information, Applying knowledge

  • Present Simple and Present Continuous

Nightwalker

* All levels

  • Writing, Speaking

http://myenglishpages.com/blog/brainstorming-lesson-plan

Jessie Voigts & Carrie Kellenberger

* Very Young Learners

* Young Learners

* Teenagers

* Young Adults

* General Adults

http://www.wanderingeducators.com/language/learning/icebreaker-activities-esl-classroom.html

Mr Foteah

Let the Games Begin!

Students assign medal values to words based on their familiarity with them, as well as their usefulness. The goal is for students to increase their use of the words (displayed on charts) and continue to discover new words for their use.

* Elementary / PreIntermediate

* Young Learners / Teenagers

Shelly Terrell

Using a Word Cloud Tool to Teach Students Vocabulary

http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/2010/02/20/vocabulary-2-0-15-tips-tools-resources/

Higher Order Skills:

  • Recalling/ Reproducing information
  • Understanding and Explaining
  • Applying knowledge
  • Analyzing information
  • Evaluating or Defending

* Higher Intermediate Teenagers

Games vs Handouts

Eva Buyuksimkesyan

Teenagers

Get students to focus on looking at whoever they are talking/listening to

in order to practice understanding meaning

http://mikeharrison.edublogs.org/2010/02/16/doctor-who-lip-reading-a-lesson-plan/

Johanna Stirling

Nick Jaworski

The Easter Bunny Hates You

  • Teenagers, Young Adults, General Adults
  • Intermediate, Higher Intermediate, Advanced

Focus on the language of possibility and practice all four skills in a creative and humorous way.

http://turklishtefl.com/2010/03/07/the-easter-bunny-hates-you/

Larry Ferlazzo

"Will Sleeping Make Me Smarter?"

  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • Teenagers
  • Intermediate, Higher Intermediate, Advanced
  • 30 mins

Arjana Blazic

This lesson consists of two interactive Hot Potato exercises, one about Las Vegas, the other about Georgia's Antebellum Trail. Students develop their reading comprehension skills by filling in the blanks. They get instant feedback for both quizzes.

collocations and various grammatical structures, such as the passive, relative pronouns, articles and phrasal verbs

http://traveloteacher.blogspot.com/2010/02/travel-posts-turned-practice-tests.html

Natasa Bozic Grojic

The Trouble with Mobile Phones

http://lunas994.blogspot.com/2010/03/trouble-with-mobile-phone.html

By the end of this lesson the students will have

- had intensive speaking practice

- practised and reinforced the language of agreeing and disagreeing

- practised evaluating, negotiating, summarising and defending their opinion

The "Google Search" Stories

  • Recalling/ Reproducing information
  • Understanding and Explaining
  • Applying knowledge
  • Analyzing information
  • Creating something new

Young Adults

Janet Bianchini

The Power of Images - a Powerpoint Presentation

Business English

Vicki Hollett

A handy dictation

To practise intensive listening, teach a little vocabulary and above all, to intrigue and prompt discussion.

Anne Hodgson

Video "Pigeon: Impossible"

Target group: Adult education, Business English (group and one-to-one), multilevel.

Language goals: 1. speaking 2. report writing 3. spy/ thriller vocabulary 4. predictions 5. could/ coudn’t/ was able to (describing general ability vs. single achievements)

Writing task: “Incident on F Street”: write report to line manager about the unforeseen incident with the pigeon. What could the pigeon do with the additional powers at its disposal, what couldn't they do to interfere and what were they ultimately able to do to stop pigeon and end the incident?

* Intermediate, Higher Intermediate

* 1hr+

* http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/22/pigeon-impossible/

Diana Diodati-Konrad

http://askauntieweb.blogspot.com/2010/03/preparing-negotiation-role-play-lesson.html

Preparation: The students are put into small groups and asked to think of a real or hypothetical negotiation. They complete the worksheet and hand it to another group.

The other group may ask any questions they have about the situation.

Task:The groups then role play the negotiation they have been given.

At the end of the role play each group writes a short report.

Jeremy Day

ESP

http://specific-english.blogspot.com/2010/03/lesson-in-psychology-of-learning.html

Helping students overcome psychological barriers that prevent them from asking questions and admitting they don't understand. In the context of marketing.

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Karenne Joy Sylvester

Kalinago english

http://kalinago.blogspot.com

encore

An unusual reunion

Practise narrative tenses (past simple, past continuous) in spoken and written English.

Practise listening to and reading a narrative.

Encourage students to think imaginatively.

  • Young Adults, General Adults
  • Intermediate, Higher Intermediate, Advanced, PreIntermediate (NOT Elementary)
  • Listening, Watching, Reading, Writing, Speaking
  • Recalling/ Reproducing information, Visualising; imagining

Next Carnival june 1st, 2010

Mary Ann Zehr

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/

EFL/ESL Carnival of Lessons

Fun and interesting activities to jumpstart English lessons.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kylemay/2045290249/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjman/2352510797/sizes/l/

This activity will teach students to brainstorm effectively. It can be carried out in a one-period session. No materials are required apart from a pen or pencil and sheets of paper.

Brainstorming

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel_s/3070910300/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andymangold/4455910733/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danisarda/4346730821/sizes/l/

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/02/08/will-sleeping-more-make-me-smarter-a-lesson-im-trying-this-week/

Guided code words activity

http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/code-word-activity.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielfoster/4220444721/sizes/m/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robnwatkins/397488557/

Text reconstruction activities are very useful for improving a really wide range of learners' skills, including spelling, but they are difficult to do without a computer.

A printable text reconstruction activity using coded letters is a great alternative.

There are hints to guide learners not only to complete the puzzle but also to notice spellings more explicitly.

revise reduction of relative clauses

  • Teenagers, Young Adults, General Adults, Business Adults, Vocational study, Specialized occupations

http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org/2010/03/26/games-vs-handouts/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/etringita/854298772/sizes/s/

30 mins

* Young Learners, Teenagers, Young Adults, General Adults

The Foolproof Lesson

http://www.vickihollett.com/?p=2075

http://www.flickr.com/photos/we_need_unity/4516012032/

http://sabridv.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/monsters-inc-present-simple-and-present-continuous/

http://www.teachingvillage.org/2010/03/21/the-foolproof-lesson/

Monsters Inc.,

For low level students, this activity naturally focuses on fluency--getting them to see that they can communicate successfully without being perfect English speakers. For advanced students, the activity naturally focuses on accuracy--they tend to create more elaborate set ups, and discover that they need more specific language in order to accurately "teach" another to duplicate their creation.

By giving students control of the task, they adapt it to meet their own language learning needs.

* All levels

ideas + creative activities you can do with images

http://civitaquana.blogspot.com/2010/03/power-of-images-powerpoint-presentation.html

In this lesson, English language learners learn vocabulary in context via the word cloud tool, Tagul. The students then chose which words they would like to explore by clicking on any of the words in the word cloud. They were then lead to a articles, images, and videos related to their word and related to the Winter Olympics. They chose one of these to bring into class for a discussion.

http://photomatt7.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/let-the-games-begin/

Mike Harrison

Dr Who - Lip Reading

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleopold73/2619584650/

1 - 1.5hrs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/designwallah/2745032064/sizes/m/

  • Intermediate, Higher Intermediate, Advanced
  • Teenagers, Young Adults, General Adults

http://www.flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/4352088960/

The goal of this lesson is to practice the language of exploring and sharing experience. Students reconstruct an engaging story, hypothesize details to complete the picture, perhaps explore leads, and then connect the dots in pair interviews. At the end they read out a template with standard storytelling/conversation markers and ad lib contents.

http://annehodgson.de/2010/02/09/the-google-search-stories/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_boris/2570588372/sizes/m/