February 27, 2009
· Filed under songs · Tagged Can't Believe It, English Teaching, ESL, house vocabulary, songs, T Pain, TEFL, vocabulary
level: pre-intermediate, intermediate
materials:
I know what you must be thinking. “Oh, no he didn’t.”
You thought I was just messin’ around when I said I was gonna make a lesson using a T-Pain song. Wrong answer again! I decided that this video would be useful as a pretext for reviewing and expanding house vocabulary.
I would embed the video here but they have it disabled–so go check out the video first, then check the lesson plan.
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February 17, 2009
· Filed under reading lessons · Tagged Business English, EFL, English Teaching, ESL, infinitives, stress, TEFL, verb + object + to + infinitive
Level: intermediate, upper intermediate
Aims: Practice the use of phrases to structure a narrative, introduce and practice verb + obj. + to + inf., talk about stressful situations at work or school.
Materials:
MS Word:
or PDF:
Bits of card with the phrases “to start, plus, finally, on top of all that, but that’s not all, finally, all told”
(The Lesson Plan can be found at the bottom of the page.) Read the rest of this entry »
February 7, 2009
· Filed under general, pairwork · Tagged debates, EFL, English Teaching, ESL, Language activities for teenagers, New English File, TEFL
Seems like my lag time between posts is getting longer and longer…I suppose I’ve been busier than usual, cooking up some really hyperspecialized material for my students none of which I imagine would be of any use to anyone else out there. But now that I’ve got a minute I figured I’d share something that’ s been pretty useful in a variety of settings. Read the rest of this entry »
