ESL Activities: Quick Vocabulary Exercise

This two-minute ESL activity is a short reading and vocabulary exercise with a surprise ending.

Instructions

  1. Read the clues below with your students.
  2. Choose one person from the three patients.
  3. Look at the pictures.

Least Preferred Patient Test

You have a job interview with a local hospital. The hospital helps many kinds of people but it is famous for doctors who are good at helping old people.

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ESL Writing Activity: E-Mail Rules

Many of my students will soon graduate from university. So, finding a job is important. Many ESL students want to find employment with a company that does international work, or work for a foreign company. In either case, these students will most certainly need to communicate via email with international people.

Unfortunately, many students do not know how to send a proper business e-mail. By proper, I mean an e-mail message that conforms to ideas of proper layout and content.

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