ESL Materials For Mother’s Day
8th May 2022 – MOTHER’S DAY TRY MORE JOB INTERVIEW PREP EXERCISES WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO NOW? FOR STUDENTS SEE MORE ONLINE EXERCISES TAKE THE ELT-TUTOR LEVEL TEST FOR TEACHERS GO BACK TO ‘STUFF-ROOM’ CONTACT ME
George Michael: Kissing a fool
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Guns’n Roses: November Rain
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Eric Clapton: Running on Faith
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Sting: When we dance
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Eric Clapton: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
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Celine Dion: River Deep – Mountain High
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Nicole Kidman: One Day I’ll Fly Away
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QUEEN: We are the Champions
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Micheal Bublé: For once in my life
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Boyzone: No Matter What
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Elvis Presley: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
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EASTER: ESL worksheets and activities
ESL quizzes, songs, exercises to celebrate/discuss Easter: 17th April 2022 VIDEO QUIZ (B1): Practise strong adjectives with the Easter Factory scene from HOP (2011) Interactive worksheet (A1/A2): Watch a short scene from HOP (E.B. playing the drums, starring David Hasselhoff) and answer to listening comprehension questions and do some background check: Interactive worksheet (A2/B1): Watch a short scene from Rise of the Guardians (2012) and practise listening comprehension (true/false) and sentence completion with gerund vs. to+infinitive verb forms: Easter Jokes: Looking for cool worksheets for your ESL lessons? Free materials for kids/Young Learners: A one-page worksheet with a picture, 10
HALLOWEEN SLIDES FOR YL
In Italy, most language courses start in October, just before Halloween. This means that Halloween lessons are due to become grammar revision lessons. If you are teaching Young Learners at A1 level, you might need to revise nouns: 1) with indefinite article (a/an), 2) in plural forms,3) with adjectives (adjective-noun word order).Here’s a downloadable slide-show combining these grammar points with Halloween vocabulary for 6-10-year-old students.
Last summer: Did you have a whale of a time?
A first lesson after a long summer break should be about discussing what you and your students have done since last time you met. It’s a great opportunity to exchange experiences, create a great group dynamic and revise simple past forms in positive, negative and interrogative sentences. So, here’s a quick idea for a welcome-back lesson:
LESSON PLAN: Absurd Reality and Artistic Vision in Selfies
January 2021 – In this lesson plan, you can discuss selfies from an artistic and a humorous point of view. The lesson aims at B2-C1 level students and is based on a TEDTalk (available on YouTube, not on the official TED site) and a scene from a late night TV show. It gives opportunity to revise narrative tenses and/or reported speech with your students. The exercises are suitable for online lessons.
LESSON PLAN – Regular verbs in simple past
December 2020 – This lesson plan introduces or revises regular verb forms in simple past. It’s target level is A1-A2. The exercises also revise vocabulary linked to ‘restaurants’, a lexical field students are often exposed to even at lower levels while traveling. The short video to watch is the end scene of the animated Disney/Pixar film ‘Ratatouille’. There are also materials included to practice pronunciation of the -ed ending and spelling.
FREE TEST-BANK: TEST-ENGLISH
December 2020 – When I started teaching online I kept going back to one website to test my students’ grammar knowledge in test-teach-test approach. At the beginning, it was a simple blog, however, it has grown up to a prodigious test bank. Today, I invite you to visit the TEST-ENGLISH website.
GRAMMAR: THIRD CONDITIONAL TIPS AND IDEAS
November 2020 – Third conditional is a tough grammar point and it’s also difficult to make students practise it, since it is not so often used in real life situations. Doing automatized exercises seems to work for the moment, but fails on the long run. To help students memorize the structure, you might want to spend some time making them do different engaging activities over a couple of lessons. Here are some ideas how they could practice third conditional sentences.
YL: INTRODUCING KIDS TO SIMPLE PAST REGULAR VERBS
November 2020 – If you are teaching kids online or without a structured textbook and you might be looking for some materials how to introduce your students to simple past forms of regular verbs. Here is an idea how to:
GRAMMAR: Teaching Simple Past in an Online Lesson
November 2020 – This is a lesson plan teaching and revising regular and irregular verbs in simple past. Students need to be at high A1-A2 level, but you can also use this lesson for a revision lesson at B1 level. The lesson plan is written for an online lesson.
SPICE UP YOUR LESSON WITH A SONG – Grammar & Vocabulary through Listening
November 2020 – Songs are an evergreen possibility to lead into a new topic or introduce a new grammatical structure, they can be an excellent exercise to wind down a lesson and even in between two exercises, they are good for making students relax and prepare for the next task. In this post, I would like to show you some interactive worksheets to do while listening to some great classics and also some newer hits – with embedded YouTube videos.
YL: MY SUPERHERO’S TYPICAL DAY
November 2020 – Here’s a lesson plan / idea how to teach and practise daily routines and third person singular to/with kids (age 6-10). This lesson plan is suitable for online lessons.Your students should be familiar with the use of the modal verb can.
GRAMMAR: A FOR ADJECTIVES
I have been planning to write about grammar for a long time. I don’t think that grammar is so important in language teaching, however, no established teacher can afford not knowing grammar, above all in adult courses. In my career as a supervisor of native and non-native English teachers, I noticed that most new teachers have difficulties what to explain about any grammar structure to their students. The more they knew about the students’ first language, the clearer the answer became to this question. But there is always a first time.
YL FLYERS: FUTURE TRACING MEMO-GAME
BULLETPOINTS: Level: Flyers (A2); Age: 7-12; Group size: any; Aim: to activate previously learnt future forms; Skill: writing (tracing) and speaking; Grammar: going to and present continuous for the future; Vocabulary: birthday; Length: 30 min; Preparation time: none; Material: worksheet attached.