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Learn English Speaking, 10

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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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#4 Teaching Writing: Words and Categories

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Teaching Writing – Thinking in Categories

This ESL activity helps students learn English writing by imaging and creating abstract categories as a tool for organizing information. Known as the Picture Word Inductive Model, this technique is used to help young learners with language development. I have adapted the process to make it suitable as an inquiry based writing exercise for ESL university students.

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Learn English Speaking, 9

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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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Learning English with a Walk About

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Learning English with a Walk About

Main Idea

This wonderful, student-centred fluency activity generates lots language in the classroom with a good mix of scripted and spontaneous talk. If you’re weary of the traditional oral presentation format – one student speaks for five minutes and 19 others feign attention – yet want to give students a chance to write and speak, this is a must-try activity.

  • Level: high beginner and up
  • Time: 40-90 minutes
  • Resources: each student prepares a poster; teacher brings adhesive tape.

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