esl conversation activities

Learn English Speaking, 4

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Learn English Speaking, 4

Here is the plan for this week’s English conversation class.

  1. Learn to speak English with greater precision with a pair work activity describing the locations of things (handout from teacher).
  2. ESL conversation Activity #1: Reading Puzzle: This ESL problem solving worksheet has a thinking puzzle. Read the question. Work with a partner to understand the problems and answer the questions.
  3. ESL conversation Activity #1: Words and Symmetry: This video helps students review and improve their vocabulary skills. It uses the idea of symmetry. That is, two things that seem to go together very well.
  4. Textbook: chapter 8 A/B.
  5. Help improve listening and pronunciation skills with the final S worksheet.
  6. Suggested answers for the Symmetry video.

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Learn English Conversation: Week 14

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These test questions will help my ESL students learn English and prepare for the final exam. The exam will contain four parts to assess elements of fluency and language learning:

  1. critical thinking and persuasion
  2. cohesive story telling
  3. recall of vocabulary
  4. effective descriptions by making clear distinctions

Part 1 Agree or Disagree? (2-4 minutes)

Each student will be given one of these random quotes. The task will be to:

  1. define the meaning of the quote
  2. state clearly if you agree or disagree
  3. explain why with reasons and evidence

Respond to one of these quotes.

  1. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
  2. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
  3. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
  4. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime…” Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
  5. “Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”-  Sylvia Plath

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Learn English Conversation: Week 13

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Teaching English conversation skills with lessons from eslwriting.org.

Learn English Conversation Skills

Here is the plan for this week – the last week of new material – to help ESL students learn English conversation skills:

  1. return the quiz #2 (Friday class) and check the answers
  2. review – describing things and people – with like and look like
  3. various fluency building speaking activities

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Learn English Conversation: Week 12

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Teach ESL students English conversation skills with lessons from eslwriting.org.

Learn English Conversation Skills

Here is the plan for this week to helps ESL students learn English conversation skills:

  1. quiz #2 (on Friday)
  2. describing things and people well with like and look like
  3. textbook 5, units C and D

ESL Speaking Activity 1: Like and Look Like

Describing things with like and look like is important. But these words and phrases are easy to confuse. This exercise helps ESL students see the errors and correct them.

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