March 8, 2009
· Filed under listening, reading lessons · Tagged Breaking News English, EFL, ESL, ESP, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Falling, TEFL, The Guardian, The Onion
level: intermediate, upper-intermediate
aims: practice debating, listening for gist and detail, introduce / practice adj.+ prep. + obj. + “to” + inf. and verb + obj. + “to” + inf.
materials:
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(Note: If you like, you can omit the Listening by skipping Stage 3, going directly from the lead-in debate in Stage 1 to the reading in Stage 3.) Read the rest of this entry »
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”
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November 23, 2008
· Filed under reading lessons · Tagged English for Special Purposes, English Teaching, ESL, ESP, passive voice, past participle clauses, reading lessons, TEFL, The Onion
Level: intermediate, upper-intermediate
Aims: Review vocabulary for research and experiments (collocations), review past passive, introduce past participle clauses
Materials:
MS Word doc:
PDF:
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Okay, so post number one of my new blog, hmm, this should be a decent place to start: After attending a Lindsay Clandfield workshop on Working with Texts, I tried my hand with this one. The text is adapted from the world-famous satirical newspaper The Onion, and the full-length, unadapted version of the text can be found here.
I made it specifically for a class I have with statisticians who do clinical trials in a local hospital, so it’s of main interest to Medical/Scientific ESP type students, but could also be used profitably with any other Intermediate level students. Generally good for a laugh, or least a chuckle.
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