Created for Washtenaw Community College's low intermediate ESL students, this OER writing textbook covers writing sentences, summaries, opinions, and narratives, as well as improving spelling and grammar.
Material Type: Textbook
Body language and micro-expressions can provide a wealth of information about a person's emotions, thoughts, and intentions. Regarding openness, certain gestures, postures, and facial expressions can indicate a person is receptive, accepting, or willing to engage. Here are 100 examples of body language and micro-expressions that may indicate openness:
Material Type: Student Guide
This lesson is for advanced learners who study Built Environment ( Urbanism) and need to learn English for specific Purposes (ESP). The lesson focuses on 3 skills ( reading/speaking/writing) and also makes the learners familiarise to the vocabulary dedicated to New Urbanism register.The pre-reading tasks make the learners get ready to the text through brainstorming and definition tasks. They are supposed to work in groups and pairs and give feedback to the whole class in an interactive way.The reading tasks allow the learners to read the text and get the necessary information to answer the questions either in pairs or groups. The post reading task is a writing task that makes the learners describe the phenomenon of the sprawl in their country/city and get involved in suggesting some solutions. ( pair work)
Material Type: Lesson
We created this site to share the lesson plans and other materials that we use in this Listening/Speaking Level F class with other ESL teachers -- click around and use what works for you! This is a 10-week course at LCC, but you can pick and choose from the 8 chapters for a shorter or longer term. The chapters can be covered in any order. Lane Community College's Intensive English Language Program offers 6 levels (A=beginner, F=college transition). This site was designed for Listening/Speaking Level F, which is a class that teaches listening and note-taking strategies focused especially on lecture listening, as well as presentation, pronunciation, conversation, and academic discussion skills. LCC ESL Students in Level F take three separate intensive classes (Writing, Listening/Speaking, and Reading for a total of 20 in-class contact hours per week). Prior to the re-imagining of this class and the creation of this site, each Level F class had a different textbook with different thematic progressions. Students experienced cognitive overload with the demand to learn the vocabulary, concepts, and skills of the three separate classes. In addition, students in our department are often from marginalized backgrounds and can find it financially difficult to purchase the three separate textbooks. In order to lessen students' financial and cognitive burdens and create more connections between the three classes, we used the topics from the Reading textbook (Academic Encounters Level 4: Reading and Writing, 2nd edition, Cambridge 2014) to find freely-available authentic videos or recorded audio for the Listening/Speaking class. Over the past year, students have expressed appreciation for the reduced cost of taking the course. In addition, they have shown increased interest and engagement in the course due to the authentic, real-life materials and complementary nature of the three Level F classes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Reading and writing are the primary focus. Reading texts are links to authentic readings. Topics covered include MLA/APA, rhetorical strategies, audience and purpose, and forming arguments. Level: 1 below TLEE, TLEE; Skills: writing, reading, vocabulary, all
Material Type: Full Course
Use this worksheet to help you organize your research paper.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
This is a PowerPoint for beginning to intermediate level ESOL students with worksheets and activities including suggestions for a reader's theater activity of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Game, Interactive, Lesson Plan
This is a picture story and worksheets to help low level English language learners understand how to get help will filing their taxes and what documents are needed.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Primary Source
This video is excellent for students learning the alphabet. The video has real life pictures and speaks slowly. There is also video of a mouth forming the letters, sounds, and words. It is 9 min in length.
Material Type: Lecture
The Minnesota Literacy Council provides a wide variety of professionally written curriculum for adult ESL, adult literacy, and GED classes. The ESL Curriculum includes six months of comprehensive, life-skills based curriculum for pre-beginning and beginning level classes. The units in these curricula are based on themes that are applicable to adult ESL learners, aligned with the CASAS standards, and incorporate the ACES Transitions Skills Framework. Each unit includes explicit teacher instructions, a grammar focus, and printable handouts. GED Science and Mathematical Reasoning curricula are also available, as well as curriculum for employment readiness, technology mini-grants, and citizenship instruction. The site also includes curriculum units that were created in partnership with ECHO Minnesota. Topics covered are: voting, domestic violence, community resilience, tornado safety, and health.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will practice using a mouse in order to type onto a Google Doc T-chart .
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Designed for Adult Basic Education ESL levels 2-3, this is a Google Slides lesson to help students learn how to sign in to email and work on a Google Slide in English.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This lesson employs the use of a quiz created on Google Forms. When these forms are linked to a website (such as a classroom website) students can access them without needing a username or password. The primary purpose of this lesson to give students experience taking an online quiz, while simultaneously reinforcing academic content. The content of this quiz is Counting Money, although the numeracy goals are secondary to the digital literacy goals.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
These lesson plans and activities were developed by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy and were previously located on the Reaching for English app. Created for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Book 2. High beginning grammar book in a 5-level series for ESL students. This is the second of the two books for beginners.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Textbook
The ESL Beginning Literacy Booklet contains +25 downloable and printable units designed for use with immigrants, refugees and low literate English Language learners.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Module, Reading
These lesson plans and activities were repurposed by Raquel Fernández Romero and were previously drafted by Janine Darragh, Gina Petrie, and Stan Pichinevskiy who created them for K-12 English teachers in Nicaragua. Now the activity will be carried out in a 4th grade of Primary Education but the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context and needs.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
I created a series of lessons that culminate in a student created document of themselves to post in the classroom (mini poster). The lessons focus on student interaction, dictation, grammar, writing, editing, typing and other digital literacy skills. This is more like a project that is broken down into lessons.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This lesson uses Google Docs. Students write WH questions and answer them, based on a newspaper article.
Material Type: Reading
This lesson presents guided practice for google slides, along with internet research practice, jobs awareness, and speaking practice.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
