Category Adjectives
The Rainforest: A Camp Lesson Plan
As mentioned in the previous post, The U.S. embassy in Ecuador holds an English immersion camp for scholarship high school students. A group of fellow PCVs are charged with presenting backgroud information on the rainforest for the 2016 camp. Here is the lesson plan, which may give you ideas for your own camp.
Minding Our Emotions
Pixar’s animated film Inside Out can be a teaching tool to help students understand and express their emotions. The website provides four marvelous activities for students of all ages and language levels. Playing the movie and doing one of the activities could be a multipart class or an English club session.
Anecdotes: Tell Your Story
Sharing anecdotes gives students a chance to speak and write confidently about topics of their choice.
Memory Challenge
A great game to review vocabulary for a unit or a specific topic. The more “meetings” students have with vocabulary words, the better they remember.
“I am hungry, You are hungry.”
This fun song for young learners reinforces the present simple conjugations of “to be” (I am, you are, etc), personal pronouns, and adjectives. Video by Romania PCV Matt Paulson.
Active Listening with Music
Music is brought alive through this creative activity which brings art and music alive in students imaginations.
What am I? Who am I?
A role-play activity, is a “Whose line is it, anyway?” styled activity where students express personality traits, emotions, types of people, stereotypes and/or animals. Get ready to act!
My neighbor’s cat is a ____ cat
This is a fun little game from Simon Parker of Sharing One Language for helping students practice adjectives. Students must select an adjective for each letter of the alphabet to describe the imaginary cat next door.
Advertising
Explore the world of advertisements in this engaging lesson plan. Students love creating and performing their own commercial skits after learning the basics of what advertisements are and how they can be influential in our lives.
Physical description adjective powerpoint
A powerpoint featuring essential pairs of adjectives describing physical traits such as big/small and long/short by Romania PCV Sara Hughlett.
The Good Leader
The qualities of a good leader are described and discussed in this fun lesson. Students then look at themselves and determine which qualities then have and how they, themselves, can become a positive leader.
My House
Reinforcing household vocabulary, prepositions of place and adjectives, this simple activity is minimal prep. and effective for students and teachers.
Basic Adjectives Worksheet
Use this worksheet to test their knowledge of simple adjectives such as big, small, big, and small.
Hair and Eye Color Powerpoint
Physical description is an essential essential skill. Save yourself some time and use this powerpoint made by Romania PCV Jessica Brookins.
Animal Adjectives
This low-resource lesson engages students through one of their favorite learning topics (animals), and will teach them some very distinct English vocabulary words.This topic lends itself to good ‘creative thinking’ exercises, which can be successful in a mixed-ability classroom, as lower level students are still free to participate while higher level students can push themselves.
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