Quick ESL Class Resources and Activities

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Every ESL teacher needs a reliable set of quick ESL class resources and activities ready to use at any moment. Classes often run into unexpected time gaps, early finishers, or energy dips that call for a simple change of pace. A flexible toolkit ensures that students stay engaged while they build real English writing and speaking skills in short, meaningful bursts.

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Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 5

Learn English Speaking

Here is an outline of the activities we will do this week to help ESL students learn English speaking skills.

This Week

  1. Chapters 3a textbook
  2. Quiz #1 review
  3. Pair work conversation with if-would questions.
  4. The importance of review
  5. Words and Books worksheet
  6. Chapter 3b in the text
  7. 5 minute stories
  8. Dictogloss
  9. sound and sort #2
  10. Tiny Story – describe the movement (find good verbs)

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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 5

Learn English Writing

This is week 5 of the semester. What did we do last week?

  • completed a second review of cohesion in a paragraph
  • completed a second editing exercise
  • completed third and final draft of the homeless story (hopefully)
  • start and maybe finish second draft of health and wealth (summary with a hypothesis)
  • another fluency activity (a little different because we practiced three sentence patterns)
  • started 3rd writing assignment – book/movie review
  • finish chapter 3 in the textbook

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Sophomore ESL Writing, Week 4

Learn English Writing

This is week 4 of the semester. What did we do recently?

  1. Wrote first draft – an analysis of health and wealth. This included a hypothesis, descriptive of the connection between these two variables, and an evaluation.
  2. Completed second draft of the homeless story
  3. Completed chapter 1 and chapter 2 in the textbook
  4. Weekly fluency activity (e.g. freewriting)

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