Archive for recommendations
Email Subscription – Recommendation
I subscribe to the Inside Out Macmillan English Update email service, which sends out a newsletter each week with links to downloadable activities. A number of them have been quite useful to me, but I have not posted about them because you need to be a registered email recipient in order to access them.
I highly recommend subscribing to this service, which provides activities on different proficiency levels throughout the month.
Iraq & Oil Production – Recommendation
I recently used the “Read a Pie Chart” handout found in lesson 2 here:
Scholastic News In-depth: Rebuilding Iraq
It took 10-15 minutes to discuss the chart and the questions with a group of lower-level 11 and 12 year olds. It is best if you have a world map, or at least a map of the Middle East to go along with this.
New Live Duplifiches 6e: Anglais – Recommendation
This recommendation is for a set of photocopiable sheets geared toward 10-12 year old French students for use in English class. They are actually quite useful for any age and any first language, but especially so for beginners to intermediate students.
I have used their sheets about the family, the body, basic adjectives, the house, and the city, and they are a very good source of basic vocabulary.
The publication information is as follows:
- Title: New live Duplifiches 6e : Anglais
- Editor: Didier (18 october 2004)
- Language : Français
- ISBN-10: 2278049062
- ISBN-13: 978-2278049066
Family Q&A Board Game – Recommendation
I have used the Family Q&A board game available at esl-galaxy.com with great success. It goes well with lessons on family vocabulary and relationships, and students always love a game.
Take a look at it here:
(scroll down to where you see “Who’s in your family?-Family Q and A”).
Clothing – Recommendation
The British Council has three worksheets about clothing that I have used in combination with each other. They can all be found here:
Look in the right-hand column for Favourite Clothes, Clothes Match, and Getting Dressed. By far, Favourite Clothes was the most successful, because I had the students volunteer to read their resulting sentences.
Pronunciation – Recommendation
The following activity is great for teaching past tense pronunciation. I have not used the story, but I have used the worksheet.
*Please note, however, “studied” should be removed from the “id” column; this is an error (it belongs in the “d” column).
Extreme Adjectives – Recommendation
I have used the following resource from One Stop English for vocabulary building:
Grammar: vocabulary (extreme adjectives)
I especially like the first page of the student worksheets. It can be used to open a discussion of other synonyms.
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