Advanced English Conversation Lessons: Week 10

This is week 10 of the fall semester. Time flies when you’re having fun, right?

Two activities below are group work projects which will be done in class.

ESL Speaking Warm Ups

Part A

This group speaking activity is about making comparisons. Look at the topics below. Choose one per person. If you don’t like these topics, feel free to choose another that interests you.

  1. Think about the topic.
  2. Right down your main idea.
  3. Write a three or four bullet points of categories that will be used to make the comparisons (not full sentences or a full script).

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Basic ESL Conversation Lessons: Week 10

This week the main topic of our speaking class is food with countable and non-countable nouns. The ESL students will learn English sentences that use how much, how many, there is a lot, there isn’t a lot. Plus other words and phrases.

How Much and How Many

These two ESL conversation worksheets help students learn English questions and answers with HOW MUCH and HOW MANY.

The first worksheet asks students to make past

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ESL Writing Lesson: Paraphrase and Vocabulary

This ESL writing lesson is has two sections. First, the students will finish the first paraphrase writing worksheets which we started last week. That exercise used synonyms to paraphrase sentences.

While working on the first few questions of that worksheet, I noticed the students had a hard time. At that time, I noticed the students struggled with the questions because they did not have enough vocabulary.

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ESL Listening Lesson: Solar Power

This ESL listening lesson helps students learn English listening. This listening lesson comes from Breaking News. This lesson has gap fills, vocabulary and discussion questions about about solar power

ESL Listening Lesson

The reading comprehension, listening gap fills, vocabulary and discussion questions for this listening exercise can be found here: solar power energy lesson.

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