Basic English Conversation

This is week 12 of the university semester. The festival is over, so now it’s time to hit the books for a few week before the final exams. These lessons and activities will help my ESL students learn English, improve vocabulary skills and use key phrases in conversations.

UNDERSTAND LIKE AND LOOK LIKE

LOOK LIKE and LIKE are words and phrases that are easy to confuse. They are also useful when you want to express ideas in a conversation. Let’s do a quick review.

CHARACTER

What is your best friend like?

1. She is kind and talkative.
2. She is like a tiger, strong and [click to continue…]

It’s week 11 of the semester, and soon the university will have a festival. Here are some activities my ESL students will use to learn and practice their English speaking skills.

Sentence Patterns: Prepositions plus verb ING

I had a plan to use this activity last week, but we did not have enough time. So let’s try this week.

Look at the words. Make a full question for your partner by adding a preposition. make an answer with a preposition plus ING verb. Ask two or three follow up questions. [click to continue…]

Here are some activities and worksheets for this week’s English conversation class.

Review TOO

Here are some words. Make questions so that your partner answers with TOO (remember too much, too many, too plus adjective)

1. polluted/Beijing
2. eat/cookies
3. swim/people [click to continue…]

Last week, my ESL students had a mid term exam. Now it is time for my ESL students to return to the classroom to learn English speaking skills.

ESL CONVERSATION WORKSHEETS

Here are some of the things we will learn and study in the conversation class.

1. This ESL conversation worksheet helps students review how to make questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
2. This worksheet has a few logic puzzles. Solve the problems and [click to continue…]

It’s week six of the semester. This week the students have a short quiz. Two weeks later there is a mid term exam.

This week, my students need to print these worksheets for the English conversation class. These [click to continue…]

It is week five of the semester for my English students. Soon the students will have a quiz and mid term exam. That means it is time to review the things which we studied in class.

ESL Conversation Review

To prepare for the quiz and exam, my students will need to understand the material from the book on these pages.

1. Change first person to third person (page 8)
2. Adverbs of frequency (page 14) [click to continue…]