Controlled Practice Activities
Controlled practice activities develop accuracy. Here you will find a large range of different controlled practice activity types with helpful examples of each.
Freer & Productive Activities
Get an overview and examples of different kinds of freer productive activities you can do to improve your students’ abilities to speak or write for fluency! Includes important details and demonstrations!
Further Comprehension Questions
Learn about the two major kinds of more specific reading tasks to develop the abilities of your students to read for deeper comprehension and to scan for specific information.
Introductions: Getting to Know the Class
Below you will find links to several introductory lesson plans and demonstration videos: Find Someone Who… This lesson is a easy yet fun and interactive one that doesn’t take too much to do. It only requires a simple survey handout…
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Find Someone Who…
This lesson is a easy yet fun and interactive one to do right on the spot: it only requires a few slips of paper, students, and some interesting facts. Students write an interesting fact on a slip of paper, grab another’s, and mingle to find out whose interesting fact belongs to whom.
Name Origin: What’s the meaning of your name?
Students share and discuss the meaning, origin, and popularity of their name.
Getting to Know you Questions
Getting to Know you Questions This lesson is a simple one: you just elicit how to ask some basic questions regarding personal information, then you have the students ask and answer the questions amongst themselves, and finally you go over…
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North American Vowels
There are 16 vowel sounds in North American English (the dialects of the USA and Canada); however, there are ONLY 5 vowel letters – a, e, i, o, and u (well, six if you count the letter of ‘y’). If you want to know how to properly teach your students how to pronounce NAE, you better read this blog.