What’s the category? An ESL speaking, listening and thinking activity

What’s the Category?

  • Focus: speaking, listening and analyzing
  • Time: 15 minutes
  • Level: intermediate and up

Main Idea

This pair work activity helps ESL students learn English and improve fluency by requiring students to pronounce well and listen intensely. It’s also an inquiry-based learning exercise because it asks student to focus on and answer one essential question, “How are these things related?”

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Learn English Speaking, 10

Learn English Plan, Week 10

This is week 10 of the semester. Here is the plan to help students learn English conversation.

  1. Check Walk About progress.
  2. A simple speaking and grammar review exercise, this ESL conversation worksheet helps students review questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
  3. From the textbook, Chapter 9 B and C
  4. Retell a scary story.
  5. This worksheet has a few public signs. Students read the signs, learn the vocabulary and explain the meaning of the signs.
  6. Complete a puzzle worksheet about family.
  7. Pair work – read the clues – a speaking, listening and thinking vocabulary exercise.
  8. Pair work speaking – hobby and sport verbs go, play, do.

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Learn English Speaking, 9

Learn English Plan

This is week 9 of the semester. Here is this week’s plan for to helps students learn English conversation.

  1. Briefly discuss midterm exam answers.
  2. Introduce the Walk About Activity.
  3. A simple grammar exercise, this ESL conversation worksheet helps students review questions and answers with TOO MUCH and TOO MANY.
  4. An English speaking exercise that requires precision. Watch the video. Work with a partner to describe the actions and say how they match the concept. Make notes. Then change partners. Listen to their ideas.
  5. This worksheet has a few public signs. Students read the signs, learn the vocabulary and explain the meaning of the signs.
  6. Read the sentence and discuss with your partner. Change partners. Listen and discuss. Make notes. Come back to your partner and make a report.
  7. Chapter 9 in the textbook.

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