I have been teaching English in Asia for 6 years so far and loved every second of it.
My expertise includes IELTS, IGCSE English as Second Language and AS Language and Literature.
A great amount of my time is spent in the preparation of engaging lessons. Therefore, I hope my resources can be of some help to all my fellow teachers.
I have been teaching English in Asia for 6 years so far and loved every second of it.
My expertise includes IELTS, IGCSE English as Second Language and AS Language and Literature.
A great amount of my time is spent in the preparation of engaging lessons. Therefore, I hope my resources can be of some help to all my fellow teachers.
CHINESE NEW YEAR: New vocabulary words for ESL learners.
This matching worksheet can be used as an introductory activity to a text about Chinese New Year 2016. It contains 12 vocabulary words in the word bank and 12 related pictures to match the words with.
If you like this activity you can check the connected Reading, Writing, and Speaking Thematic lessons and worksheets at the following url:
Chinese New Year 2016 (ESL)
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§§§ NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS §§§
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
This mini units opens with a class discussion about New Year and related traditions. Before getting to read the texts, students can work in pairs to match words with pictures and to match words with definitions. They can, then, get engaged in the reading of the article about the history of new year resolutions by filling the blanks. The second speaking activity should be done in pairs. Students will interview each other about their resolutions and will then summarize their findings in writing. This piece of writing can be either produced in class or given as a homework assignment. With the second reading activity students will learn about new year traditions in 5 different countries. They will do so through 3 engaging activities: match countries with their flags, match countries with their tradition and a crossword.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
◘ Speaking activity 1
◘ Reading Comprehension 1 (The history of New Year Resolutions)
- Activity A. Match words with pictures
- Activity B. Match words with definitions
- Activity C. Fill the blanks
◘ Speaking activity 1
◘ Writing
◘ Reading Comprehension 2 (New year traditions in 5 countries)
- Activity A. Match countries with their flags
- Activity B. Match countries with their new year tradition
- Activity C. Crossword
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■ ESL Amazing facts about ants
■ ESL Amazing facts about trees
■ ESL The Chinese Legend of Nian (the story behind Chinese New Year celebrations
Mini ESL unit about transportation. Students will discuss in pairs and as a class with two different speaking activities. They will learn 40 different vehicles through words and pictures matching. They will discover 5 amazing facts about skateboarding through wordle sentence formation. Students will then fill the blanks and read an article about the history of hot-air ballooning. The unit will conclude with a writing task.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
GENERAL: Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
SPECIFIC: While studying this mini unit, they will get their juices flowing while discussing about advantages and disadvantages of different modes of transport and by talking in pairs about transportation in general. They will also learn 40 different types of vehicles thanks to clear pictures. They will, then, engage in forming sentences to discover interesting facts about skateboarding. After that, students will fill the gaps and read an article about hot-air balloons. The unit will be concluded with writing task.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Preview
2. Cover page
3. Terms of Use
4. Table of content
5. Instructions
6. Speaking Activity. Discuss 8 questions.
7. Speaking Activity. Brainstorming.
8. Match words with pictures. A-J.
9. Match words with pictures. L-Y.
10. Wordles. Skateboarding. 1-5. Sentence formation.
11-12) Reading Comprehension. History of hot-air ballooning.
13) Writing task.
14-21) Black and white version
22-27) Answers and Large Wordles
28) Credits
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■ Transportation. 40 Flash Cards.
■ Modes of Transportation (ESL). Vocabulary Puzzles.
Mini ESL unit about natural disasters. Students will discuss in pairs and as a class with two different speaking activities. They will learn 20 different types of natural disasters. Two reading activities with comprehension questions about earthquakes and floods are then followed by a writing task.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
While studying this mini unit, they will get their juices flowing while discussing about reasons behind natural disasters and what can be done to solve them. They will also learn about earthquakes and floods around the world through gap filling activities and a number of comprehension questions. They will, then, engage in descriptive piece of writing to describe a possible catastrophic scenario. The unit will be concluded with a revision crossword which will bring them back to the very first activity to review the vocabulary words learned in it.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Cover page
2. Terms of Use
3. Table of content
4. Instructions
5. Speaking activity 1. 8 questions.
6. Speaking activity 2. Brainstorming.
7. Match words with pictures
8. Reading Comprehension 1, (Earthquakes)
⇒ Activity A. Find the meaning of unknown words
⇒ Activity B. Fill the words in the right gaps
9. Reading Comprehension 2, (Floods):
⇒ Activity A. Find the meaning of unknown words
⇒ Activity B. Fill the words in the right gaps
10. Reading Comprehension Questions
11. Writing prompt: "Choose a natural disaster and write as if you were directly affected by it. Describe the environment around you, people's and your behaviour, and how you feel."
12-18. Black&White version of all the worksheets
19. Detailed answers
20. Credits
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You might be also interested in my Natural Disasters 20 Flash Cards for future revision. You can find the link below:
■ Natural Disasters 20 Flash Cards
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
Before getting to read the texts, students can work in pairs to match words with pictures. The story about the legend of Nian is split into two parts. All the reading activities can be done in pairs or small groups. During the pre-reading activity students will be faced with a wordle containing all the words from the story and they will be asked to form three complete sentences by using as many words as possible from the wordle. After that, they will engage in a gap filling activity to get to know the first part of the story. They will, then, engage in a writing activity to propose an alternative part 2 to the legend. The second part of the story is presented through two activities. During the first students work on a wordsearch and only then they will fill the blanks with the words from the previous exercise. The unit will be concluded with a revision crossword which will bring them back to the very first activity to review the vocabulary words learned in it.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
◘ Match words with pictures
◘ Form sentences from a wordle
◘ Reading Comprehension, Part 1 (The legend of Nian)
Activity A. Find the meaning of words
Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Writing prompt 1: "You have just finished reading part one. Before going any further, try to think of a possible continuation by writing a short article.”
◘ Reading Comprehension, Part 2 (The legend of Nian)
Activity A. Wordsearch
Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Crossword to review vocabulary learned with the matching exercise.
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■ ESL Amazing facts about ants
■ ESL Amazing facts about trees
■ ESL Transportation (vehicles)
☻☻☻ CHINESE NEW YEAR 2016 ☻☻☻
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
Before getting to read the texts, students can work in pairs to match words with pictures. Reading comprehension 1 is about the year of the monkey and the meaning behind it. Students can work on this text on their own or in pairs. For the second text, which is split in 4, I suggest to create 4 station and make students rotate in order to find out 10 facts about Chinese New Year through 4 different and engaging activities. They will, then, engage in a writing activity to compare Asian and Western traditions. The unit will be concluded with a revision crossword which will bring them back to the very first activity to review the vocabulary words learned in it.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
◘ Match words with pictures
◘ Reading Comprehension 1 (The year of the monkey)
Activity A. Find the meaning of words
Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Reading Comprehension 2. Part 1. (10 facts about Chinese New Year)
Activity A. Unscramble the words
Activity B. Underline them in the text
◘ Reading Comprehension 2. Part 2. (10 facts about Chinese New Year)
Activity A. Wordsearch
Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Reading Comprehension 2. Part 3. (10 facts about Chinese New Year)
Activity A. Match words with definitions
◘ Reading Comprehension 2. Part 4. (10 facts about Chinese New Year)
Activity A. Crossword
◘ Writing prompt. “Write a short article about similarities and/or differences between the Chinese New Year and a Western celebration of your choice.”
◘ Crossword to review vocabulary learned with the matching exercise.
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■ ESL The Chinese legend of Nian
■ ESL Amazing facts about ants
■ ESL Transportation (vehicles)
20 flash cards with different natural disasters to use for vocabulary teaching and revision. From avalanche to blizzard to desertification and so on. All you have to do is either laminate them or glue the vocabulary word at the back of the picture.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
GENERAL: Students will learn vocabulary with visual aids and will have the chance to review over the year.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Preview page
2. Cover page
3. Terms of Use
4-13. 10 pages with 20 flash cards
14. Credits
Keywords: avalanche, blizzard, desertification, drought, dust storm, earthquake, flood, hail (storm), heat wave, hurricane, landslide, lightning, sinkhole, solar flare, storm, tidal wave, tornado, tsunami, volcanic eruption, wildfire.
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■ Natural Disasters for ESL students
Mini ESL unit about chocolate. Students will engage in a number of pre-listening activities to prepare them to watch a video about the history of chocolate. They will learn 20 words related to chocolate with a word-picture matching activity. They will learn plenty of vocabulary words in the two worksheet that precede the listening tasks.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
GENERAL: Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
SPECIFIC: This mini unit is based around a listening activity (a video from Youtube) about the history of chocolate. Before students engage in listening, filling the missing gaps and answering questions, there are a few of pre-listening activities. The first one is a wordle which includes vocabulary words from the introduction of the video. Students need to form sentences by using such words. Another pre-listening activity is a matching exercise, where students need to match words with pictures. Two more worksheets with 4 exercises are included to practice finding synonyms, antonyms and definitions. All in preparation for the listening task. The mini unit concludes with a writing task.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1) Preview
2) Cover Page
3) Terms of Use
4) Table of Contents
5) Instructions
6) Sentences from a worlde.
7) Match words with pictures.
8) Instructions for the teacher.
9) Pre-listening activities. Part 1.
10 Listening activity. Part 1. Gap filling.
11) Pre-listening activities. Part 2.
12) Listening activity. Part 2. Questions.
13) Writing Task.
14-21) Black and white version
22) Answers
23) Credits
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■ ESL Valentine's Day
20 Space/Astronomy Flash Cards to use for vocabulary teaching and revision. All you have to do is either laminate them or glue the vocabulary word at the back of the picture.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Preview
2. Cover page
3. Terms of Use
4-13. 10 pages with 20 flash cards
14. Credits
Keywords: astronaut, (space) crew, eclipse, extra terrestrial (alien), flying saucer (UFO), full moon, planetarium, planets, rocket, satellite, shooting star, sky, solar system, spaceship, space station, space suit, stars, sun, telescope, weightlessness.
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■ Space for ESL students: Mini Unit of work
Mini ESL unit about types of crimes and criminals. Students will engage in a number of vocabulary related activities as well as in reading short passages. They will learn 18 different types of crimes and criminals through words and definitions matching and a challenging crossword. They will also speak and write about crime.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
GENERAL: Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
SPECIFIC: This mini unit is based on the theme of crime. The initial stage is based on two speaking activities: a conversation and a brainstorming activity to get your students to talk and to assess their knowledge of the topic. These activities are then extended to a whole class discussion and even into a writing task. The second stage sees students learning 18 types of crimes by matching words with definitions. They will also learn how to call the different kinds of criminals who commit the 18 crimes mentioned through an engaging crossword. Both matching and crossword can be done either in pairs or small groups. The third stage requires students to engage in reading short stories and guessing the type of crime. This activity is important not only to practice their reading skills but also because it serves as a sample for the writing activity which will follow. The final step will get your students creating a short crime story. There is a guideline on the structure of the story that your students can follow. The students should not make the crime evident because once they are done they will read their stories and the rest of the class will guess the crime. These activities can cover a week or even more of teaching depending on the pace and the choices you make (suggestions are provided in the instructions).
Key words: arson, shoplifting, burglary, homicide, blackmail, fraud, robbery, assault, pickpocket, bribery, smuggling, forgery, kidnapping, mugging, hooliganism, vandalism, hijacking, trespassing.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Preview
2. Cover page
3. Terms of Use
4. Table of contents
5-6. Instructions for the teacher
7. Conversation in pairs. 8 questions
8. Brainstorming. Whole class discussion
9. Writing task 1.
10. Crime vocabulary words: Meaning checking
11. Match crimes with definitions
12. Crossword: Types of criminals
13-14. Short stories reading: Identify the crime
15. Guided writing: Instructions for the teacher and students
16. Writing practice
17-25. Black&White version of all the worksheets
26. Detailed answers
27. Credits
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♥♥♥ VALENTINE'S DAY ♥♥♥
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
While studying this mini unit, they will also learn about who St. Valentine was, the story of Cupid and his love with Psyche, why do people exchange chocolate boxes and who was the inventor of the first chocolate box.
They will get creative while watching a video and guessing the reasons behind the protagonist's actions. They will learn more about the love story 'Mind the gap'. They will engage in writing a love letter.
The unit will be concluded with a revision crossword which will bring them back to the very first activity to review the vocabulary words learned in it.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
◘ Match words with pictures
◘ Reading Comprehension 1, (Who is St. Valentine?):
- Activity A. Put sentences in order
- Activity B. Unscramble words, located them in the text and then write short definitions
◘ Reading Comprehension 2, (The story of Cupid):
- Activity A: Wordsearch
- Activity B: Fill the gaps with the words from the wordsearch
◘ Reading Comprehension 3, (The history of chocolate as Valentine gift):
- Activity A: Crossword
◘ Speaking and Listening, (Mind the gap: A love story):
- Activity A: Pair discussion (whole class feedback and discussion)
- Activity B: Fill in gaps (Mind the gap - real story)
◘ Writing prompt: "Think about a person you like or love. It can be a boy/girlfriend, a crush, a classmate, a family member, or even a celebrity. Write the cheesiest letter possible by focusing on things you like about them the most."
◘ Crossword to review vocabulary learned with the matching exercise.
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■ ESL The Legend of Nian (The story behind Chinese New Year celebrations
■ ESL Natural Disasters
24 Musical Instruments Flash Cards to use for vocabulary teaching and revision. All you have to do is either laminate them or glue the vocabulary word at the back of the picture.
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
GENERAL: Students will learn vocabulary with visual aids and will have the chance to review over the year.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
1. Preview
2. Cover page
3. Terms of Use
4-15. 12 pages with 24 flash cards
16. Credits
Keywords: accordion, acoustic guitar, bagpipes, banjo, bongo, cello, clarinet, cymbal, drums, electric guitar, flute, french horn, harmonica, harp, keyboard, maracas, oboe, piano, saxophone, tambourine, triangle, trombone, trumpet, violin.
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■ Music genre for ESL students
♠♠♠ FACTS ABOUT ANTS ♠♠♠
►LEARNING OUTCOMES◄
Students will learn plenty of new vocabulary words through engaging and challenging activities. They will work individually, in pairs or in small groups to include variety in lesson dynamics.
While studying this mini unit, they will get their juices flowing while working in pairs or small groups to form sentences by using the wordle. This activity will lead them to the first part of the article about ants. Before getting to read, they will have to unscramble some words and define them. To get familiar with the second part of the article they will engage in a form filling activity first. Before enjoying the video '5 amazing facts about ants' they will work together to develop their listening abilities. The pre-listening activity sees them working to just put in order the words when they hear them. The second activity is more challenging and sees them working individually to fill the blanks while listening. They will, then, engage in descriptive piece of writing to discuss about the importance of teamwork. The unit will be concluded with a revision crossword which will bring them back to the very first activity to review the vocabulary words learned in it.
►TABLE OF CONTENTS◄
◘ Match words with pictures
◘ Pre-reading activity (form sentences)
◘ Reading Comprehension, PART 1 (Facts about ants)
- Activity A. Unscramble the words
- Activity B. Find the words in the text and underline them
- Activity C. Write a short definition for each word unscrambled
◘ Reading Comprehension, PART 2 (Facts about ants)
- Activity A. Check the meaning of words
- Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Listening (video)
- Activity A. Listen once and put the words in order of hearing
- Activity B. Fill the blanks
◘ Writing prompt: "Write a short article about the importance of teamwork.”
◘ Crossword to review vocabulary learned with the matching exercise.
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If you enjoyed working with this product please have a look at my similar resources. You can find a few links below:
■ ESL Natural Disasters
■ ESL Transportation (vehicles)