These awesome ideas will come in handy for your ESL lessons.
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Students explain in groups their daily routines, practicing, the simple present and adverbs of frequency, and then write journals on the topic.
1. My Routine
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Students construct the story of a fictitious person, using pictures from magazines and practice present, past, and future tenses to write about his or her life.
2. Grammar Story
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To practice the passive voice, model and have students write headlines fro their class: e.g., "The teacher's purse was stolen", "the students were taught passive voice."
3. Headlines
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Teach the song from the musical "Fiddler on the Roof." Then Students discuss and write about what they would do if they were rich, practicing the unreal conditional.
4. If I were a Rich Man
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Introduce some issues like Capital Punishment. Students Choose their teams, issues, research, read, write, and debate on their issue.
5. Controversial Issues
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Have Students discuss the future, using diffrent tenses, for what they plan for (to be going to) and predict (will).
6. Plans and Predictions
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Play the Game: one student thinks of someone/something to be, and others try to guess what or who it is, using twenty yes/no questions: e.g., "Are you a person?"