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ESL conversation lessons and activities to help students learn English speaking.

Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 5

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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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Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 4

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

This Week

  1. Chapters 2a and 2b in the textbook
  2. Speak precisely about numbers (pair work, big numbers with countable and uncountable nouns)
  3. What’s different? Describe how two pictures are different (street scene)
  4. quick vocabulary recall – say 4 (boxes A and B)
  5. Chapters 2c and 2d
  6. quick vocabulary recall – say 4 (boxes C and D)
  7. vocabulary – words with ph sounds
  8. vocabulary puzzle and word game
  9. hint puzzle – complete a crossword puzzle about verbs

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Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 2

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Here is the plan to help ESL students learn and improve English speaking skills this week.

Quick Review

  1. website and syllabus for new students;
  2. key points from “Which on is different” exercise (e.g. think about words in many ways – meanings, word forms, syllables, homophones); learn and remember all words from this exercise;
  3. lessons learned from 5 x 5 activity (e.g. fluency or accuracy, follow up questions, pronunciation, tone and pragmatics).

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