The Food lesson plan is one that goes over very well with students. It’s accessible to everyone. Beginners can handle describing their native dishes simply and you can push more advanced learners to describe detailed recipes. The lesson also has a multicultural aspect as the teacher can introduce common foods from his/her home country. Finally, the plan moves on to discussing holiday meals, which means this lesson can be used for any holiday, especially holidays that have associations with special foods: Christmas, New Years, May Day, Nauryz, Easter, Ramadan, Passover.
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One of my favorite lesson plans to teach is At the Restaurant. I compiled it from a series of sources like The British Council and TEFL.net and edited the activities and worksheets to make them more fun and accessible and so that everything relates together into one big lesson.
So if you’re looking for a complete lesson plan about food and restaurants that features vocab building, discussion, reading, cultural notes and a great role play that can be targeted to beginners, intermediate or advanced learners, take a look at At …Continue

This lesson plan is based on a bunch of different plans that I have seen here and there. Have You Ever, Would You Ever basically asks students a number of hypothetical questions to get them talking about extreme situations. I wrote this list as one appropriate to younger learners as well as to former Soviet learners based on their experiences. It can obviously be rewritten as you see fit. It’s a great plan because it can work as a first day lesson, or as a quick activity to kill some …Continue

As I am moving my site over to the WordPress system, I’m also reorganizing everything so that as much as possible is included in the WordPress installation as possible. That way everything will be much easier to find for you, my readers. As I do that, I’m also going to take the chance to post about the lesson plans.
So the first lesson plan to be ported is not a lesson at all. It’s an article, Why Plan?, which includes a lesson plan template and advice on basic ways to …Continue

I occasionally get asked by my fellow teachers how I organize my teaching materials and what kinds of tools I use. I’m not sure I am the perfect organizer but for what it’s worth, I’m putting down my method here.
First, I keep big folders of material sorted by kind of lesson. Every Xerox, every print-out, every article I clip from the newspaper is in a 3-hole punch binder and organized into the following categories:Conversation LessonVocab LessonGrammarListeningReadingTOEFLGRESAT
You may have your own categories or organizational system.
I also have seperators in with the …Continue

Another blog I found online, University Scholar, run by a student in Indiana with tips and resources for being a better student. I particularly like the post on making good PowerPoint presentations which has some videos taken from experts so you can get a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. There’s also a recent useful post on getting a regular sleep method. I really don’t recommend going for 2 hours a night as the University Scholar seems to recommend but the idea of tracking your sleep and knowing …Continue

If you want a quick online test to check your knowledge of Parts of the Car. Fill in the names of the parts of a car, check your answers as you work and get your final score. For teachers, the test is printable to use a worksheet in class.
Have You Ever, Would You Ever is a list of questions on what you have done and what you would do. Under what circumstances would you steal? Or live in another country? What do you do when you can’t sleep? Great for …Continue