Jeopardy is a television game show/quiz competition in which contestants are presented with general knowledge clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. Activity: As a lesson starter or activity write down a question in one of the home languages of your students and the answer in English. The …
Month: March 2016
L1 karaoke
Karaoke is a great language development activity across all skill areas. Many of our EAL learners love singing, especially in their home language. Using this in class can be very powerful and motivating. Activity: Ask your learners to find a karaoke song in their own language. There are many specialised websites (see list below) or your students will probably be …
Academic Word Count
A while ago I handed out a reading comprehension text on Viruses (from Reading Explorer 3, Cengage) because it linked in with the topic of diseases in Science Year 8. In EAL we do a lot of academic vocabulary building and normally they would have to highlight the academic words they have trouble understanding and translate them into their home language …
What is she/he talking about?
This activity originated from looking at all of the academic word of the week photos shown in an earlier post. So many words are similar, even in languages with different scripts. So now after a content-based lesson (Geography, Science, Food, IT and so on), I’ll have students play a game in which one of them …
Academic word/collocation of the week!
I have an extra whiteboard in my class and every Monday morning I write a new academic word/collocation on it which my learners have to translate into their home language. They absolutely love it and some students will automatically take out their smartphone and look the word up, as some of them might have forgotten …
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