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Hurricane Running Dictation

By saradavila  |  2013/06/01 14:38 Posted in Advanced, Global Awareness, Intermediate, Reading Comprehension, Running Dictation  |  Comments (0)

The following is a running dictation activity suitable for intermediate or advanced EFL/ESL students. This is different from some of my other running dictation activities, as this includes much more reading for reading comprehension as well. When using this activity in class teachers may choose to have students summarize the key points in the reading [...]

Holiday Present Descriptive Writing

By saradavila  |  2012/12/25 01:31 Posted in Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Writing  |  Comments (0)

Happy Holidays everyone. To help you through the holidays and the end of the year planning, here is a writing worksheet designed to help learners organize for a descriptive writing paragraph. The topic is holiday oriented. EFL/ESL learners are prompted to think about the types of holiday presents they have recieved and then to choose [...]

General Writing Bubble Organizer

By saradavila  |  2012/11/02 02:15 Posted in Advanced, Beginner, Intermediate, Writing  |  Comments (0)

Here is a bubble organizer for brainstorming ideas related to a topic before writing. This is a general organizer that can be used with any topic introduced by the teacher. This is a perfect writing organizers for any learner who is interested in writing, include EFL/ESL learners at a number of levels. This organizer would [...]

Creating An Essay with Two Sides of the Argument

By saradavila  |  2012/08/07 00:32 Posted in Advanced, Writing  |  Comments (0)

This is a lesson from a recent class I taught. It’s based on New Advanced Headway 3 and includes the materials that I adapted from the series. This is a writing lesson, which includes the writing lesson plan, to help upper intermediate level learners construct an essay that presents to sides to an argument. This [...]

Tourism Role Play

By saradavila  |  2011/08/11 23:39 Posted in Advanced, Global Awareness, Intermediate, Interview, TBL Activities  |  Comments (0)

This is a tourism role play designed for intermediate or advanced EFL/ESL learners. In the role play students work to exchange and collect information to find a city that would be appropriate as a tourist destination. This activity includes information about specific cities in Korea for use with Korean learners to develop learner identity in [...]

Interview for Story Reading

By saradavila  |  2011/06/21 16:30 Posted in Advanced, Four Skills, Reading Comprehension, Speaking, TBL Activities  |  Comments (0)

This is an interview activity designed for less controlled practice for  intermediate or advanced EFL/ESL learners. This is a general interview to discuss reading materials presented in the class. For teachers using extended or extensive reading practices with advanced learners this interview activity can help provide structure for deeper discussion of written texts. For these [...]

Mixed Speaking Test 4 with Rubric

By saradavila  |  2011/06/14 16:45 Posted in Advanced, Assessment, For Teachers, Intermediate, Speaking, Teacher Tools  |  Comments (0)

This a speaking test designed for use with high beginner through upper intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This test includes a rubric page for teacher with instructions on how to administer the test. First show the picture to your students. Have the students describe the picture in as much detail as possible. Next, show the text to [...]

Mixed Speaking Test 3 with Rubric

By saradavila  |  2011/06/14 16:44 Posted in Advanced, Assessment, For Teachers, Intermediate, Speaking, Teacher Tools  |  Comments (0)

This a speaking test designed for use with high beginner through upper intermediate  EFL/ESL learners. This test includes a rubric page for teacher with instructions on how to administer the test. First show the picture to your students. Have the students describe the picture in as much detail as possible. Next, show the text to [...]

Likes and Dislikes English Battleship

By saradavila  |  2011/06/07 18:14 Posted in Advanced, For Teachers, General Teaching, Information Gap, Intermediate, Teacher Tools  |  Comments (0)

This is an activity designed for intermediate or upper-intermediate EFL/ESL students. This activity is constructed around a battleship style information gap. The game is played between two students. Each student chooses up to ten spaces on the board. Students use a Do you like/ Do you dislike.. question pattern to try to discover which ten [...]

Speaking Rubric for Performance Assessment

By saradavila  |  2011/06/07 18:03 Posted in Advanced, Assessment, For Teachers, General Teaching, Intermediate, Interview, Teacher Tools  |  Comments (0)

Here are tools for teachers that can easily be adapted for classroom use. When possible I’ve included the .pdf for you to preview and a document file that you can download and personalize for  classroom needs. This is a rubric designed to provide guidance on test based speaking assessments. In this rubric the student, pair [...]

Good Bad Writing Sample Advanced Foundation

By saradavila  |  2011/06/02 20:28 Posted in Advanced, Assessment, Foundation, Writing  |  Comments (0)

This activity is designed for advanced EFL/ESL learners. This activity helps students understand the process of assessment by the teacher by placing students in the role of the teacher. This activity also helps students understand and use a grading rubric to assess student performance in the classroom. I consider this material part of my foundation [...]

Animal Description Riddle Bingo

By saradavila  |  2011/06/02 20:15 Posted in Advanced, Bingo, Intermediate, Riddles, TBL Activities  |  Comments (0)

This is a bingo game designed for small groups of students, generally working in groups of three or four. This activity is designed for intermediate  or upper-intermediate EFL/ESL learners and is built different types of animals. The picture cards are cut up and place on a bingo grid. The caller card is laminated as one [...]

My Favorite Movie

By saradavila  |  2011/05/31 20:55 Posted in Advanced, Intermediate, Interview, Low Budget Activity, Power Point  |  Comments (0)

This is a power point file designed for working with the whole group without creating a print out or handout for students. This can help teachers reduce preparation time for classes and reduce the amount of printed materials distributed in a typical class. This works with a low budget student centered approach that incorporates the [...]

Similies Large Group Low Budget

By saradavila  |  2011/05/31 20:50 Posted in Advanced, Grammar, Intermediate, Low Budget Activity, Power Point  |  Comments (0)

This is a power point file designed for working with the whole group without creating a print out or handout for students. This can help teachers reduce preparation time for classes and reduce the amount of printed materials distributed in a typical class. This works with a low budget student centered approach that incorporates the [...]

History of Sneakers Reading Dictation

By saradavila  |  2011/05/31 20:43 Posted in Advanced, English for Specific Purpose, Reading Dictation  |  Comments (0)

These information gap activities are designed for upper-intermediate or advanced EFL/ESL students to practice scaffolded exchange of information. These information gaps are reading gap style information gaps. To complete this information gap all four paragraphs are cut up. Each students receives one. In a group of four, each student takes turns reading one sentence at [...]

Hobbies Hobby Cards

By saradavila  |  2011/05/20 13:27 Posted in Advanced, Cards, Intermediate  |  Comments (0)

These cards contain pictures of different hobbies.  These cards are useful for  intermediate and upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. To use these cards teachers can have students work in groups. With this set the teacher has several options. The cards can be used for a flash card activity to have students recall the vocabulary that matches. [...]

Food Cards

By saradavila  |  2011/05/20 13:25 Posted in Advanced, Beginner, Cards, Intermediate, Young Learner  |  Comments (0)

These cards contain pictures of different foods.  These cards are useful for high beginner, intermediate and upper intermediate EFL/ESL learners. To use these cards teachers can have students work in groups. With this set the teacher has several options. the cards can be used for a flash card activity to have students recall the vocabulary [...]

Children’s Rights Reading Dictation

By saradavila  |  2011/05/17 14:01 Posted in Advanced, Global Awareness, Intermediate, Reading Dictation  |  Comments (0)

These activities are designed to help EFL/ESL learners talk about their world. This activity is designed for intermediate or advanced learners as it focuses on improving discussion in a specific context. This is an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) activity focused on understanding the role of children’s rights. This is a global awareness activity. This [...]

Pollution and the Environment Board Game

By saradavila  |  2011/05/16 21:44 Posted in Advanced, Board Games, Global Awareness, Intermediate  |  Comments (0)

This is an English for Specific purposes activity designed for intermediate or advanced EFL/ESL learners to discuss and relate information about environmental pollution. This game has students relate knowledge about the environment and how to help the environment. This global awareness game can be used as a review activity for a class that has been [...]

Jobs and Job Skills One Card

By saradavila  |  2011/05/16 18:15 Posted in Advanced, Cards, Intermediate  |  Comments (0)

This is a card game based around using job vocabulary and the skills related to jobs for intermediate or upper-intermediate EFL/ESL learners. This game is presented in the form of Uno or One Card. To use these cards create a deck. One deck is useful for a group of four students. In the group of [...]