Using advanced words for describing how people look can be a challenge for ESL students. They often resort to familiar, but very simple words to describe appearance.
But now you have a ready-made solution to that problem!
To boost your learners’ vocabulary for describing appearance, use this bundle which contains revision and practice activities for a wide range of vocabulary for describing appearance, including facial features, skin, build, hair and hairstyles, clothes and accessories.
The bundle includes:
a presentation and matching cards game with high-quality photos that student can describe to practice the new vocabulary
a guessing game that will helps student practice target vocabulary, speaking and listening skills and grammar, all while having fun
The presentation
With excellent visuals and key words, this presentation will help your learners take that step forward and move away from simple, everyday vocabulary towards more nuanced and native-like expressions.
The game
This interactive game is an excellent way to combine vocabulary learning with practicing speaking and listening skills and grammar. The game is based on a ready-made inclusive presentation that presents high quality images of people from different backgrounds. Your students will ask and answer questions about the people in the photos, pay attention to even the slightest details and practice incorporating high-level, nuanced vocabulary into their everyday conversations and writing.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, with this bundle, you will be able to teach about describing people with a resource that promotes diversity by including people of different races, religions, ages and abilities.
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If your students struggle with reading and writing articles, you need a go-to resource that can help them integrate knowledge and skills to help them finally understand this informational text type. Now you finally have it!
This bundle combines theory and practice to help your students learn to read and write articles effectively.
The bundle consists of an informative presentation and an engaging article analysis stations activity.
Presentation
This presentation is a clear, concise, and visually appealing guide to teaching the fundamentals of newspaper articles.
It offers important general information about the typical features of newspaper articles, including audience, purpose and layout.
Through this presentation, your students will learn:
What articles are
What their audience and purpose are
What register is used when writing articles
What is the structure of an article
Do’s and don’ts of article introductions
How to end their article with an appropriate and effective conclusion
Article analysis stations activity
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 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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Do your students still describe a movie they watched as “good” or “bad”?
Reading the same **vague and bland **movie reviews over and over again is a problem we’ve all encountered at some point, but getting students to write better reviews can be a difficult task.
Writing a film review at a higher level requires students to know and use more advanced vocabulary for describing and evaluating movies.
This means knowing how to describe the main elements of the movie, including the plot, characters, cinematography, music and visual effects, and understanding how to **express positive and negative opinions **about different elements of the movie.
This 32-slide presentation helps students learn just that, without requiring any additional preparation by the teacher.
The presentation includes** easy-to-understand definitions and realistic examples **that showcase how the given words and expressions are used in film reviews.
The presentation focuses on words and expressions for:
movie genres
general film vocabulary
types of movies
types of characters
describing the plot
describing acting
describing visual effects and music
positive reviews
negative reviews
Reviews are a challenging form of persuasive writing for many students.
There is a lot that goes into writing a review, and it can be hard to find
a comprehensive resource that covers all the basic elements of this type of text, include genre conventions and text features, language characteristics and typical review structure.
Well, this presentation might just be what you’re looking for!
With more than 50 slides, it provides in-depth information about various aspects of review writing.
The presentation helps student learn about:
Text features of reviews:
Audience (typical audiences for different types of reviews)
Purpose (why we write reviews and how they help people)
Tailoring the review to the target audience (how to adapt the tone, content and examples in the review to different audiences)
Register (formal, informal and neutral reviews and their characteristics)
Subjectivity (how subjective opinions shape reviews)
Facts and evidence (the need to corroborate opinions with verified facts and evidence)
Audience engagement (how to get and keep the attention of the target audience)
Language of reviews:
Descriptive language (how descriptive language helps improve the quality of the review)
Persuasive language (how persuasive appeals and techniques help improve the quality of the review)
Jargon and specialist terminology (when and why they may be used)
Vivid verbs and adjectives (how they help make the review more informative and persuasive)
Evaluative lexis (what types of evaluative lexis can be used to express opinions about the subject of the review)
Structure of reviews:
Typical review structure (title, introduction, evaluation and analysis, conclusion, rating)
Title (what is its purpose and what techniques to use to achieve that purpose)
Introduction (key elements of the introduction and their purpose)
Evaluation and analysis (key elements in the main part and their purpose:
Conclusion (the purpose and form of a well-written conclusion
Learning about these various elements of review writing helps prepare students for their future academic studies and career by helping them develop critical thinking skills, research and communication skills and opinion formation. These skills are crucial for their future careers as they help them form informed opinions based on solid research and articulate them in a clear and persuasive manner.
This resource focuses on vocabulary for upper intermediate students related to traffic problems and issues that drivers can face on dangerous roads.
The lesson is based on the ‘10 roads you would never want to drive on’ video which can be found at this link.
The video is rich in advanced vocabulary related to traffic and traffic problems and is excellent for listening comprehension.
Instructions:
The students watch the video and fill in the worksheet in which they list the problems on each of the roads mentioned in the video
The teacher goes over the results with the students
Based on that listening exercise, the students guess the meaning of the key words from the video (this can be done in pairs or individually)
The teacher shows the presentation with images and definitions of the key vocabulary
Extension activity: Students practice the words using the matching cards included in the resource pack
Resources included:
Listening comprehension worksheet
Vocabulary guessing worksheet
Answer key for both worksheets
Presentation with high-quality images and clear definitions
BONUS file: FREE matching cards
The resource focuses on the following words and expressions:
stretch of road, tide, route, vanish, mistime, slippery, elevation, pothole, twists and turns, pedestrian, guardrail/safety barrier, remote, breakdown, headlights, fatal, head-on collision, erosion, landslide, narrow, blind corner, plummet, infamous, hairpin turns, desolate, featureless, paved, blizzard, altitude, impassable, four-wheel drive