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December 5th is International Ninja Day! Who would have thought?!? Get those ninja stars & kung fu moves ready for a fun and interactive reading lesson based on the theme of International Days, which ends with your students creating their very own International Day to share with the class.
A reading lesson’s main aim is to develop the reading abilities of your students. They typically will focus on developing both reading for main idea (by practicing skimming – or reading quickly with an uninterrupted flow e.g. not stopping to…
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Learn more about Mexican Independence Day in this fun reading lesson that will improve your students’ abilities to read and give some great speaking practice in the context of National Holidays. So get to having fun in the classroom celebrating a National Holiday!
One of the most frequent goals for English language students is to develop their speaking abilities and a speaking lesson’s main aim is to do just that! Here are some fun, communicative, and interactive lesson plans that are ready for you to go ahead and use in your classroom right away!
Ready for Halloween? Know what you’re going to wear? Here’s a fun lesson based on the context of Halloween costumes – sure to be fun for all the students as the get to develop their speaking for fluency abilities in a fun and interactive lesson!
A fun lesson centered around an engaging listening clip from a famous movie (Jerry McGuire) that leads into a super interactive speaking activity. You definitely need to use this one in the classroom!
What’s a noticing/analysis task? A noticing task (also referred to as an analysis activity) is an activity that is used to draw the attention of the students (hence the term ‘noticing’) to language used inside a text. Notice (no pun…
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