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Four Corners back to school getting-to-know you activity
Welcome to the ultimate icebreaker for your** middle and high school classrooms**! Kickstart the school year with this engaging and interactive Back to School Get-to-Know-You Four Corners Activity. This unique resource is designed to foster connections, encourage interaction, and create a positive classroom environment right from day one.
Product Highlights:
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Engaging Icebreaker: **Say goodbye to the traditional “meet and greet” routines. This activity takes the concept of the classic Four Corners game to a whole new level. Students won’t just answer questions – they’ll become active participants in fun, lively discussions.
**Inclusive and Lighthearted: **This activity is designed to create a safe and inclusive space for all students. With a blend of lighthearted and thought-provoking questions, students will enjoy sharing their opinions, preferences, and experiences while having a blast.
Adaptable for Middle and High School: Whether you teach middle school or high school, the activity is tailored to suit both age groups. The questions are carefully crafted to resonate with a wide range of personalities and interests, ensuring that every student finds their voice.
Promotes Communication Skills: As students defend their choices, they’ll develop essential communication and critical thinking skills. This activity is an entertaining way to help your students articulate their thoughts clearly and persuasively.
**Easy to Implement: **No need to spend hours preparing complicated materials. Our product includes 20 well-crafted questions with four options each, ready for use. Simply set up your corners and watch your students immerse themselves in the discussions!
**Ideal for Back to School: **Whether it’s the beginning of the school year or a mid-semester refresher, this activity is a fantastic way to reenergize your classroom and reestablish connections among students.
How to Use:
Set up four corners in your classroom.
Read out a question and have students move to the corner that matches their choice.
Engage in lively discussions as students defend their choices.
Enjoy watching your students bond, laugh, and learn more about each other!
Add a Spark to Your Classroom:
Our “Back to School Get-to-Know-You Four Corners Activity” is more than just an icebreaker – it’s an experience that sets the tone for a positive and interactive school year. By incorporating movement, friendly debates, and self-expression, this activity will leave a lasting impact on your students’ relationships and communication skills.
Would you rather? Back to school ice breaker speaking activity
‘Would you rather’ questions are a great way to get your middle and high school students talking on the first day of school. This back to school icebreaker resource is an excellent** getting-to-know-you activity** that helps your students engage in relaxed and stimulating conversations about exciting and though-provoking topics.
The questions are designed to be appealing to teenagers and to get them thinking about different possibilities and choices. They are created to enable students to** think critically, explain their thinking in writing and discuss different opinions with their classmates.**
The combination of simple and more insightful topics enables students to think deeply and provide meaningful arguments for their opinions, while at the same time feeling relaxed and at ease.
This helps you create** a welcoming and inclusive classroom environment**, while simultaneously **setting the standard of academic rigor and critical thinking **from the very beginning of the year.
The resource includes:
28 question cards
reflection task cards for students to explain their choices
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Advanced personality adjectives BUNDLE - ESL vocabulary
Do you teach upper intermediate or advanced ESL students who need help with more precise, high-level words for describing personality traits?
Look no further, this bundle has everything you need in a clear, easy-to-understand format.
The bundle consists of a presentation and the accompanying worksheet set.
The presentation contains 24 slides with more than 30 advanced adjectives for describing personality traits.
The slides provide:
the keyword
a clear, easy-to-understand definition of the adjective
two example sentences
In addition to slides that define the terms, there are also special slides that focus on common mistakes, related words, synonyms or antonyms.
The worksheet pack includes:
2 sets of worksheets /a beautiful colorful one and a practical, printer-friendly black-and-white one/
the answer key
Adjectives included in the bundle:
orderly, meticulous, conscientious, dependable, sensible, detached, considerate, determined, steadfast, empathetic, sympathetic, compassionate, observant, reticent, gregarious, ingenious, straightforward, tactful, versatile, assertive, resourceful, matter-of-fact, down-to-earth (+sociable, outgoing, extroverted, genial, affable, withdrawn, reserved, introverted, bashful, timid, sensitive, dedicated, committed, resolute)
These resources go great with my bundle for describing appearance!
You can check out all my ESL resources here.
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Advanced personality adjectives presentation - ESL vocabulary
Do you teach upper intermediate or advanced ESL students who need help with more precise, high-level words for describing personality traits?
Look no further, this presentation has everything you need in a clear, easy-to-understand format.
The presentation contains 24 slides with more than 30 advanced adjectives for describing personality traits.
The slides provide:
the keyword
a clear, easy-to-understand definition of the adjective
two example sentences
In addition to slides that define the terms, there are also special slides that focus on common mistakes, related words, synonyms or antonyms.
Adjectives included in the presentation:
orderly, meticulous, conscientious, dependable, sensible, detached, considerate, determined, steadfast, empathetic, sympathetic, compassionate, observant, reticent, gregarious, ingenious, straightforward, tactful, versatile, assertive, resourceful, matter-of-fact, down-to-earth (+sociable, outgoing, extroverted, genial, affable, withdrawn, reserved, introverted, bashful, timid, sensitive, dedicated, committed, resolute)
The presentation is editable, so you can remove the adjectives you don’t need.
After you explain the adjectives and the students learn them, they can practice using the words with these engaging worksheets.
You can get both the presentation and the worksheets in this bundle.
These resources go great with my bundle for describing appearance!
If you like this product, please leave a review and follow my store.
Advanced personality adjectives worksheets - ESL vocabulary
Do you teach upper intermediate or advanced ESL students who need help with practicing and revising more precise, high-level words for describing personality traits?
Look no further, these worksheets have everything you need in a clear, easy-to-understand format.
The pack includes:
2 sets of worksheets /a beautiful colorful one and a practical, printer-friendly black-and-white one/
the answer key
Adjectives included in the worksheets:
orderly, meticulous, conscientious, dependable, sensible, detached, considerate, determined, steadfast, empathetic, sympathetic, compassionate, observant, reticent, gregarious, ingenious, straightforward, tactful, versatile, assertive, resourceful, matter-of-fact, down-to-earth (+sociable, outgoing, extroverted, genial, affable, withdrawn, reserved, introverted, bashful, timid, sensitive, dedicated, committed, resolute)
Before practicing the adjectives, you can help the students learn them all using this fantastic presentation.
You can get both the presentation and the worksheets in this bundle.
These resources go great with my bundle for describing appearance!
You can check out all my ESL resources here.
If you like this product, please leave a review and follow my store.
Describing charts and statistics in English - ESL vocabulary lesson
This lesson is aimed at helping your** ESL students** learn and practice English vocabulary for describing statistical data, charts and trends.
The lesson includes:
an engaging video-based warm-up activity (What if the world was a village of only 100 people) - worksheet, short presentation, teacher’s notes
a presentation of words and phrases used for describing statistics
vocabulary worksheets
writing worksheets
listening and speaking worksheets
extension activities for fast finishers
an answer key
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Persuasive writing bundle
This big new persuasive writing bundle includes six excellent resources to help your students understand persuasive writing and using different rhetorical techniques and appeals and apply that knowledge in real life:
Persuasive techniques presentation
Persuasive techniques posters
Advertisement analysis project
Persuasive letter worksheets (digital and printable)
Speech analysis stations: Frederick Douglass 4th July speech
Guided article analysis stations
The bundle includes:
a 38-slide presentation with detailed teacher’s notes
an engaging interactive Kaboom! game with 60 revision questions
12 posters with definitions, examples and effects of different persuasive techniques
a motivating advertisement analysis project that helps student understand how persuasion works in real life
detailed ready-to-go printable and digital worksheets for analyzing a persuasive letter
a ready-made stations activity for analysing Frederick dogulss ‘What to the American Slave is 4th July’ speech
a ready-made stations activity for article analysis
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES PRESENTATION
This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:
alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.
The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.
This helps students understand:
what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.
PERSUASIVE TECHNIQUES POSTERS
All 12 beautiful and informative posters include the definition of the technique, several examples (from everyday speech and literature) and the possible effects the use of the technique has on the reader (how it helps persuade the reader).
The posters are an excellent visual reminder that helps students review and revise the key elements of persuasive writing.
ADVERTISEMENT ANALYSIS PROJECT
This exciting infomercial analysis project helps students apply their persuasive analysis skills by analyzing infomercials featuring well-known celebrities and familiar products.
The project includes:
a step-by-step guide
a detailed graphic organizer for guided analysis
a curated YouTube playlist with 14 carefully-chosen infomercials
a grading rubric
PERSUASIVE LETTER ANALYSIS WORKSHEETS
With these worksheets, students analyze how writers adapt their letters to their target audience and how they use persuasive appeals and techniques.
The lesson includes:
an original persuasive letter
a set of worksheets for analyzing appealing to target audience, use of persuasive appeals and use of persuasive techniques (print and digital versions)
teacher instructions
detailed answer keys (print and digital versions)
A FREE BONUS:
My original videos on persuasive techniques: Persuasive techniques playlist
Each video contains the definition, examples from everyday life and famous persuasive texts and effects the technique has on the readers. Excellent as exam-prep or simple revision.
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If you like this bundle, please leave a review!
Advanced feelings/emotions vocabulary and speaking - Describing feelings ESL
If your upper-intermediate or advanced ESL students are struggling to find the right words to describe their feelings and precisely express their emotions in speaking and writing, this presentation is just what you need!
With more than 40 words and definitions, this resource will help your students take their vocabulary to the next level. Rather than using simple and general words which bear little meaning (sad, angry, happy, surprised), students will learn how to express themselves with precision.
The words are divided into different categories, depending on the feeling they express.
But it doesn’t stop there!
To practice using the words in real-life conversations, all words are accompanied with varied and engaging conversation questions. These discussion starters will get your students talking and using the target vocabulary, as well as other words related to emotions.
Persuasive language techniques posters - classroom décor, persuasive language
These persuasive language posters are just what your English classroom needs!
In addition to being a beautiful addition to your classroom décor, they help students review the twelve most important persuasive techniques.
Each poster includes the definition of the technique, several examples (from everyday speech and literature) and the possible effects the use of the technique has on the reader (how it helps persuade the reader).
The posters are an excellent visual reminder that helps students review and revise the key elements of persuasive writing.
Included:
Alliteration
Anecdotes
Rhetorical questions
Imperatives
Personal pronouns
Exaggeration
Facts
Opinions
Repetition
Emotive language
Statistics
Triplets
If you like these posters, check out this great game for revising these persuasive techniques.
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Persuasive letter analysis - guided worksheets (print and digital)
This lesson, which includes both print and digital versions, is a no-prep activity for analyzing persuasive letters.
In the lesson, students analyze how writers adapt their letters to their target audience and how they use persuasive appeals (ethos, pathos and logos) and techniques (anecdote, alliteration, rhetorical questions, imperatives, personal pronouns, exaggeration, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics, triplets).
The lesson includes:
an original persuasive letter
a set of worksheets for analyzing appealing to target audience, use of persuasive appeals and use of persuasive techniques (print and digital versions)
teacher instructions
detailed answer keys (print and digital versions)
Speech analysis stations: Frederick Douglass 4th July speech
This stations activity pack helps students analyze the literary and rhetorical devices in one of the greatest speeches Frederick Douglass’, his 4th July speech.
In this engaging activity, students collaborate to analyze the use of different persuasive devices and figures of speech in five extracts from Douglass’ speech.
In this collaborative environment, they are able to work together to do a rigorous in-depth analysis of some of the most prominent parts of the speech, examining how Douglass addressed his audience and modified his tone to persuade his readers that slavery is an abhorrent practice.
Included in this activity pack are:
A short presentation about Frederick Douglass and his 4th July speech
Five passages of Frederick Douglass’ 4h July speech in color OR in black-and-white for easy printing
Five full-color worksheets to accompany the passages OR five black-and white task cards
Station numbers (in color OR black and white)
Teacher instructions
Student instructions
Detailed answer keys for all worksheets/task cards
The materials are all ready to go, just print and you’re off to class!
Persuasive techniques presentation and teacher's notes
For successful argumentative writing and analysis, students need to be very familiar with persuasive devices.
This fully editable 38-slide presentation offers an in-depth look into the most commonly used rhetorical devices, including:
alliteration, anecdote, rhetorical questions, imperative, personal pronouns, exaggeration/hyperbole, facts, opinions, repetition, emotive language, statistics and triplets/list of three.
The techniques are organized into a simple, easy-to-remember acronym:
A RIPE FOREST.
The presentation contains information about the definition, examples and effects of every technique.
This helps students understand:
what the technique is
how it’s used in everyday speech and literature
and how it helps persuade the reader to agree with the author
The pack also includes 8 pages of detailed teacher’s notes.
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If you like this project, check out this great game for revising these persuasive techniques.
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Check out my blog and subscribe to my YouTube channel for more ELA content.
Guided article analysis stations (content, form, structure, language)
Getting high-school students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge!
This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis of the article through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text.
The questions are grouped into four categories ***(Content, Audience, purpose and tone, Form and structure and Language)***. This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole.
The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge.
The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity!
A detailed **answer key **is provided, so no prep is needed on your part!
If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into** a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review.
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Text features: articles - reading and writing articles in high school
Knowing genre conventions is an important aspect of being able to write well. This comprehensive booklet offers detailed information about the typical features of newspaper articles, as well as practical exercises for reading articles.
This resource contains:
Text features of newspaper articles
Layout features
Dos and don’ts of article introductions
Language features
Article reading skills worksheet with questions that work with any article
Sample article + worksheet + key
Additional article resources
Writing, structure and resource tips
If you like this booklet, please leave a review.
If you have any questions, I’m always happy to help!
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Guided article analysis stations (language, content, form, structure)
Getting high-school English language students to analyze long persuasive articles can be such a challenge!
This stations activity solves that problem by breaking the task down into manageable smaller chunks. The students are guided through the analysis through a series of questions that help them discover the layers of meaning in the text.
The questions are grouped into four categories (Content, Audience, purpose and tone, Form and structure and Language). This helps students understand how individual words the author uses are linked with whole-text elements like audience, purpose and tone and how all the individual elements work together to create a unified, meaningful whole.
The fact that the task is broken down into easy-to-understand sections enables even the most confused learners to make sense of what they’re reading and analyze it, and at the same time allows more advanced students to showcase their in-depth knowledge.
The procedure is simple: Divide your students into groups, hand out the texts and the question cards and start the stations activity!
A detailed answer key is provided, so no prep is needed on your part!
If you prefer to use a more traditional approach, I’ve also grouped all the questions into a simple, beautiful worksheet, and the best part is, you can use the worksheet or the cards for any article or text, not just the one given here! Use the questions to help students prepare for standardized exams or just as regular classroom practice and review.
If you enjoy this resource, please leave a review and follow my store!
Find me on YouTube: youtube.com/englilearn
Describing people: Describing appearance - Intermediate/Upper-int ESL vocabulary
Intermediate and upper-intermediate students often resort to simple vocabulary for describing people.
This presentation and matching card game will help them learn new vocabulary to describe people with easy and precision!
This fully editable no-prep activity includes high-quality photos of diverse people to engage students and help them improve their vocabulary and speaking skills-
Instructions:
Turn on the projector and you’re ready!
Show students the photo of a person and ask them to describe him/her using the vocabulary hey already know. Then show the next slide with the photo accompanied by new words and phrases. Elicit or explain the meaning of the phrases.
At the end, practice the vocabulary using the matching cards game or start over and have students describe people using the new words that they’ve learned.
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Advertisement analysis project - persusasive appeals and techniques
The language of advertisements is packed with different persuasive techniques and appeals. All your student can learn and practice how persuasive language is used in a real-world setting in this easy-to-use, no-prep project.
The project focuses on analyzing persuasive techniques and appeals in infomercials or other kinds of advertisements. It’s designed in such a way that every student, regardless of their level of knowledge can show his/her full potential and participate actively. The infomercials add an element of engagement an fun that will engage even the most reluctant of learners.
The project can be used for assessment or as an exercise aimed at helping students practice analyzing the use of persuasive language in advertisements.
This bundle includes:
A guide that provides all the preparation you need for this
project
A detailed advertisement analysis graphic organizer
A ready-made curated YouTube playlist of carefully selected
infomercials chock-full of different persuasive techniques for
students to analyze
A student sign-up table
A grading rubric
An extension activity idea – student-created infographics that
present their learning in a visual way
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