The free PowerPoint is called iPads, and here’s what a slide looks like:
Download the Free iPads PPT here.
The $0.99 PowerPoint is Places. This PPT has 37 slides that look like this:
I have two new ESL PowerPoints for you today, one that’s $0.99 and one that’s free.
The free PowerPoint is called iPads, and here’s what a slide looks like:
This iPads PPT is only 10 slides, but it works great for introducing vocabulary…and leading up to a project. That’s right, I used to do a pretty cool iPad project on large, A4 paper. I wrote about that in English Rocks, and I’d suggest checking it out.
Download the Free iPads PPT here. The $0.99 PowerPoint is Places. This PPT has 37 slides that look like this:
I taught Places vocabulary about 28 million times, and I’m sure you’ve done it a bit too. Having a simple PowerPoint that lists all your vocabulary words can be a lifesaver. Check this one out and make your next class a lot better.
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Note: The following is an excerpt from my book Please Say Something! 25 Proven Ways to Get Through an Hour of ESL. #24 – Make a Menu Try making a restaurant menu with your student or students. I did this so many times that I got sick of it, but the truth is it works and it also takes up a lot of time. And hey, it’s fun drawing and coloring food, labeling items and giving prices, and then doing some silly role-play that allows students to put some of their English language skills into action. Here’s a basic guide to how you can do a fun restaurant menu class:
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Give your students a lot of fun, and give yourself a headache-free day with Please Say Something! Wow, I found a great ESL tool today! I’m writing a book for a guy in Malaysia right now about getting backlinks for your site. One that I was looking into was creating cartoons to draw traffic to your site. While exploring sites that allow you to create those cartons I stumbled on one that is great for ESL classes. The name of the site is Make Belief Comix and I wish I would’ve known about it when I was teaching ESL. Here’s a look at the cartoon I was able to make in less than 10 minutes: Each comic can be three panes long, and you have a wide selection of things to choose from for your ESL cartoon. They include:
That’s a lot of great stuff, and if you have a one-one-one ESL student you can probably make one right on the computer. If you don’t you can go to the site and make up cartoon templates. Here’s one that I made real quick: That’s pretty simple and it took me a few minutes. It doesn’t have to look real fancy for your ESL students to enjoy it. Here are a few ways you can benefit:
What’s not to like? Check out this great ESL cartoon creator site today to make your ESL classes more fun! Also check out these other great articles on ESL Cartoons. This is the culmination of the three-part Newspaper Project that you’ve been working on for a few days or even a few weeks. I like this part of the project best, since you get to put the finished newspaper together.
Start by passing out the ads and stories that you collected on the two previous days. Then pass out the large newspaper template that you can download off of esladventure.com. Students simply have to glue or tape their completed ads and stories into the appropriate spots. If you’ve cut the paper right, they’ll fit right in there, and it will look great. Read More... I love this simple and easy project, and you can continue it in your class today. Sometime, perhaps a day ago or even a few weeks, you had your class design an advertisement for a newspaper. If you used the template that esladventure.com provides, you should have no problem seeing how this project will turn out.
The reason why this project works so well is that you’ll have a great model to show the class on the first day. If you took the time outside of class to come up with 1 or 2 cheesy advertisements, 1 or 2 decent news stories, and a good picture or two, your students will know where this project is heading, and what to expect. I always think it’s better to provide the students with humorous examples, for it breaks the ice and lets them know they can have fun. Read More... I love newspapers. I read them each day online, and I don’t mind the feel of a good print version either. I came up with a good project involving newspapers a few years ago, and I’ve broken it down so that you can do a little bit over three classes. When you’re all finished, it makes a great thing to present to parents.
The first part is Newspaper Ads. This is the easiest, and the best place to start. All ESL students have seen newspapers, and they all know what newspaper ads look like. Try to bring in a few print newspapers to pass around, or just pull some up on the computer. Explain that you want students to think of an existing product, or a completely new one that they make up. Read More... I was doing my usual Monday VIP session today. The girl I teach is a teen and her English isn’t that good. The problem is that I’ve got her 2 hours each Monday, and she also comes for 2 hours with four other teachers throughout the week. So this poor girl, whose English hasn’t really improved much as far as I can tell, has to come for about 10 hours each week.
Well, after a while you want to give her a break and do something fun. That’s why whenever I start a class I always put up a list on the board of things that we’re going to do in the class. I always ask them what they want to do, and I always put some things I want to do up a well. You’ve got to put some fun things, like games and videos in the list as well. What is it, already? So we were doing descriptive adjectives and one of the things in the book was to do the following activity:
Pretty easy, right? Well, we just happen to have a lot of American magazines in our teacher’s office (thanks you) so I grabbed a handful and we got to work. We ended up cutting out three pictures each. I labeled mine with a name, a job title, and a short sentence on what they looked like or had with them in the picture. I then wrote three questions and answered them as if I was that person. Here is my model:
Do you like music? Yes Do you like ice-cream? No Why is there a tongue on your shirt? I’m with the band, mate. Why are your eyes red? Don’t be a wanker! Remember, humor is important for an ESL teacher’s sanity. In the above example I also used a painter and for fun, a dog I named Gus. Well, the activity went over well, she liked it, and most importantly, it killed time. I’d say we spent about 25-30 minutes on it in total, from presenting the idea to her to her and I reading each other’s characters off. It was pretty fun and I highly recommend this simple, easy, and slow ESL grammar activity. Superhero movies are quite popular in China, and for good reason. In recent years we’ve seen several Spiderman movies, a couple Hulk movies, two Iron Man movies, Captain America, The Avengers, and countless Harry Potter movies (if you count those, which my students did today when I elicited superhero movies from them).
So you’d think that doing some kind of activity modeled around superheroes would be cool, right? Well, it is, in a way. The boys like it. I don’t think I’ve seen a group of boys that don’t like talking about superheroes to some extent. The girls, the girls are a different story. Most roll their eyes when I bring up the idea of doing a superhero kind of activity. So What’s the Wonderful Activity? Well, I call it Secret Wars and model it after the 1980s comic series of the same name. Read More... |
Greg Strandberg
From 2008 to 2013 I was an ESL teacher in Shenzhen, China. I've worked in public schools, training centers, and one-on-one as a tutor. Categories
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