Daily Archives: May 12, 2011

Jupiter Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginner or  pre-intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This is an English for Specific Purposes activity (ESP) focused on language related to science and astronomy. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut [...]

Trees Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginner or  pre-intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This is an English for Specific Purposes activity (ESP) focused on language related to biology or science. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut [...]

Running Dictation Directions Sheet for Students

This is a directions sheet that can be laminated and placed on a table for students completing running dictation activities. This is developed specifically for using the picture distinguished dictation activities (Hands or Flowers), however it can be easily modified for other dictation type activities.

Movies Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginner or  pre-intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut the sentences out as strips and place on the wall. Pair up students and have students go [...]

Books and Reading Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginner or  pre-intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut the sentences out as strips and place on the wall. Pair up students and have students go [...]

Pyramids in Egypt Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for pre-intermediate or upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This activity uses English for Specific Purposes (ESP) specifically in social studies content related to the great pyramids in Egypt. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication [...]

Poverty Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for pre-intermediate or upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This activity uses English for Specific Purposes (ESP) specifically in the area of global awareness. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. In this [...]

Like Dislike Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginning or pre-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. In this activity students will think about activities, places, and things that they like. This activity is constructed around my own personal likes. When using this in the classroom it could be presented to students that they are going to learn about a [...]

Jobs Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginning or pre-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. In this activity students will work with vocabulary  related to types of jobs. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. In this activity there are [...]

How much is it? Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginning or pre-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. In this activity students will work with vocabulary  related to food and prices with dollars. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. In this activity [...]

Daily Schedule Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for beginning or pre-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. In this activity students will work with vocabulary related to daily schedules and daily routines. This lesson focuses on vocabulary related to time. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and [...]

Sugar Cookies Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for pre-intermediate or upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This activity using English for Specific Purposes (ESP) specifically related to the use of numbers in fractions. In this activity students focus on the lexical sets for cooking and recipes, following directions, and ordinal numbers, and fractions. This is a great four [...]

Comic Book Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for pre-intermediate or upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut the sentences out as strips and place on the wall. Pair up students and have students [...]

The Atoms Riddle Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for pre-intermediate or upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This activity uses English for Specific Purposes (ESP) specifically in the area of science. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut the sentences [...]

Descriptive Hints of Animals Running Dictation

This is a running dictation activity for high beginner, pre-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This is a great four skills activity that incorporates reading comprehension with a task activity that has kinesthetic movement and interpersonal communication at the core. Cut the sentences out as strips and place on the wall. Pair up students and have students go [...]

Clue Trivia Cards

This is a trivia card game for EFL/ESL students using a series of five graduated clues. These cards can be used with any of the board games with card slots, or used separately without a board game. To use the cards have students pick one. The student holding the card reads the clues until a [...]