Basic ESL Conversation Lessons: Week 11

Here are some speaking activities that we will use to help ESL students learn English conversation skills.

Make a List

Work with your partner. Write ten words for each list.

  • things that are invisible
  • things that come in pairs
  • things that can be full or empty

Talk About Places

Look at the picture on page 43 of the book. There are many different kinds of stores. Make a

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Advanced English Conversation Lessons: Week 10

This is week 10 of the fall semester. Time flies when you’re having fun, right?

Two activities below are group work projects which will be done in class.

ESL Speaking Warm Ups

Part A

This group speaking activity is about making comparisons. Look at the topics below. Choose one per person. If you don’t like these topics, feel free to choose another that interests you.

  1. Think about the topic.
  2. Right down your main idea.
  3. Write a three or four bullet points of categories that will be used to make the comparisons (not full sentences or a full script).

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Basic ESL Conversation Lessons: Week 10

This week the main topic of our speaking class is food with countable and non-countable nouns. The ESL students will learn English sentences that use how much, how many, there is a lot, there isn’t a lot. Plus other words and phrases.

How Much and How Many

These two ESL conversation worksheets help students learn English questions and answers with HOW MUCH and HOW MANY.

The first worksheet asks students to make past

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Advanced English Conversation Lessons: Week 9

Exam are done. It’s time to get back to the business of learning to speak English well.

ESL Lessons

Group Work Mystery

This is a small group activity. It is a murder mystery. Work in a small group of 4-5 people.

One person reads one alibi card. Use the list of characters and house plan to eliminate people. Find the murderer after reading the clues.

Pair Work Lesson: Movies

In pairs, create summaries of 10 movies. Make one sentence per movie. For example

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