ESL Listening: Lessons, Exercises & Activities Week 11

The school semester is coming soon. It’s time for my English students to try extra hard and ignore the warm day outside the classroom window. Think about the ESL listening lesson, not the summer breeze.

Where Do Coffee Beans Come From?

This listening exercise helps ESL students learn about coffee. A good activity that teaches English students useful information, for coffee lovers that is.

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ESL Listening: What is Coffee Lesson

Here is a short ESL video lesson that describes for English students what coffee is. By the end of this ESL lesson, my students should be able to describe what coffee is and where it comes from.

This video lesson and transcript comes from HowCast.

What is Coffee?

Vocabulary

tropical climate, high altitude, ripe, roasted

Comprehension

  1. Where does coffee come from?
  2. Is coffee a fruit?
  3. What color is the coffee cherry when it is ripe?

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ESL Speaking: Sentence Game

This is a fun, fast-paced ESL speaking game for an English class. This English speaking activity uses videos as prompts for students to shout out answers based on what they see.

ESL Sentence Game Rules

  1. Make teams.
  2. One person from each team stands.
  3. Show short clip from video. Pause video.
  4. Student shouts out sentence to describe action.
  5. One point for first correct answer.

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ESL Listening: City Water Lesson

This ESL video tells English students a story about city water. It’s a listening exercise about the water supply in New York city. The video is the Futures Channel.

Go the the video here: esl-lesson-water.

Water Video Lesson

Vocabulary

gallon, facility, reservoir, gravity, elevation, faucets, valve

Comprehension

  1. How much water does New York city use everyday?
  2. How far below ground is the water facility?
  3. Is it longer than a football field?
  4. How many pipe sections are there?
  5. How far away is the water supply?

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