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2011 News Review (2)
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Warm up Material:
- Warm-up: Picture Story Using Key Vocabulary
- Warm-up: Exaggeration Story (Telephone) Activity
- Sentence Guessing Game
- Role-play Cards (Intermediate – Advanced) Set 1
- Role-play Cards (Intermediate – Advanced) Set 2: Telephone Skills
- Best Debates & Role-plays of 2011 (EFL/ESL)
- Speaking: Giving Advice (ESL)
- Speaking: Meeting of Ministers
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Worksheets:
- English Pronunciation Drill Sheet for the Japanese
- Basic Past Simple Worksheet (with Japanese)
- Insurance Vocabulary & Worksheets
- Illness-Symptom-Cause Matching Worksheet (ESL)
- Body Worksheet
- Describing Charts with Present Perfect
- “Do You Like ~?” Fruit
- “Do You Like ~?” Vegetable
- “Do You Like ~?” Sports
- Sports Equipment Worksheet
- Tastes Worksheet
- Describing Employees: Adjectives
- Prepositions Exercises & Worksheet
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Current Events / News Lesson Plans:
May 20, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on traveling, tourist destinations, eco-tourism & space tourism.
May 19, 2012 – Free intermediate lesson plan on traveling, tourist destinations, eco-tourism & space tourism.
May 3, 2012 – Free advanced lesson plan on etiquette and manners. Includes ten etiquette scenarios.
May 2, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on etiquette and manners. Includes etiquette scenarios.
May 2, 2012 – Free intermediate lesson plan on etiquette and manners. Includes ten etiquette scenarios.
April 16, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on the future, artificial intelligence, and Singularity.
April 16, 2012 – Free advanced lesson plan on the Raymond Kurzweil, the Singularity, and artificial intelligence.
March 29, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate business ethics lesson plan on Greg Smith’s resignation from Goldman Sachs.
March 29, 2012 – Free advanced business ethics lesson plan on Greg Smith’s resignation from Goldman Sachs.
March 24, 2012 – Free Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) ESL/EFL lesson plan. Includes emergency situation role-plays. First-aid.
March 12, 2012 – Free intermediate ESL lesson plan about Kony 2012, Invisible Children, and Africa.
March 11, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate ESL lesson plan about Kony 2012, online activism, and Africa.
February 29, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate ESL lesson plan on the family. Other topics: parenting & marriage.
February 28, 2012 – Free lesson plan on the family. Intermediate level. Other topics: parenting & marriage.
February 12, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate ESL lesson plan on ACTA, intellectual property, patents, & piracy.
February 11, 2012 – Free advanced lesson plan on ACTA, intellectual property, patents, copyright, and internet piracy.
February 6, 2012 – Free advanced lesson plan on job interviews & inappropriate job interview questions.
February 5, 2012 – Free intermediate English lesson plan on job interviewing & job interview questions.
February 5, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on job interviewing & job interview questions.
January 16, 2012 – Free advanced lesson plan on alternative parenting & feral children.
January 16, 2012 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on alternative parenting & feral children.
December 30, 2011 – Free advanced lesson plan on 2011 major news events and New Year’s.
December 25, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan the major 2011 news events and New Year’s.
December 19, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan on Dating. Lesson #3 from Unit on Love & Marriage.
December 5, 2011 – Free advanced lesson plan about robot prison guards and other robotics news.
December 5, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan about robot prison guards and other robotics news.
November 30, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson. Lesson #2: “Life-long Loving & Marriage” from Unit on Love & Marriage.
November 28, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson. Lesson #1: “Reasons for Love” from Unit on Love & Marriage.
October 17, 2011 – Free advanced news lesson plan about Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and abroad.
October 16, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate lesson plan about Occupy Wall Street protests in New York and abroad.
October 3, 2011 – Free advanced lesson plan about Troy Davis and capital punishment (death penalty).
September 24, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about the execution of Troy Davis and capital punishment (the death penalty).
September 11, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about corporate social responsibility & business ethics.
September 9, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about corporate social responsibility and business ethics.
August 24, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about office workspace & open space design.
August 23, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about different office workspace designs such as open space.
August 12, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about London riots, looting, and vigilantes.
August 11, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about the riots and looting in London.
August 8, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about the birth control debate, condoms, & pregnancy.
August 8, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about birth control & pregnancy.
August 2, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about whistle-blowing and the tobacco industry. Idiom practice exercises included.
August 1, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about whistle-blowing and the story of Jeffrey Wigand versus the tobacco industry.
July 27, 2011 – Free advanced news lesson plan about Norway shooting massacre, xenophobia, and multiculturalism.
July 27, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate news lesson plan about Norway shooting massacre and multiculturalism.
July 17, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate English lesson plan about affirmative action. Includes debate and role play.
July 14, 2011 – Free advanced English lesson plan about affirmative action. Includes debate and role play.
July 6, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate news lesson plan about financial problems in Greece and Portugal.
June 2, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan about problems caused by a bad neighbor and bullying.
May 30, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan about a Moscow gay parade stopped by police on May 28th, 2011.
May 23, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan about Harold Camping’s apocalypse prediction of May 22nd.
May 18, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan about physicist Stephen Hawking’s comments on God and Death.
May 10, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan about survival and a woman who was lost in the wilderness for seven weeks.
May 3, 2011 – Free intermediate news lesson plan on terrorism, torture, and the death of Osama bin Laden.
May 3, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate news lesson plan on terrorism, torture, and the death of Osama bin Laden.
April 29, 2011 – Free intermediate ESL news lesson plan about protests and violence Syria and Libya, and the refugee problems in Italy and France.
April 27, 2011 – Free upper-intermediate ESL news lesson plan about protests and violence Syria and Libya, and the refugee problems in Italy and France.
April 21, 2011 – Free intermediate ESL news lesson plan about recent protests and law changes in Syria.
April 20, 2011 – Free advanced ESL news lesson plan about recent protests and law changes in Syria.
April 13, 2011 – Intermediate ESL news lesson plan about nuclear rating in Japan and speech given by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
April 13, 2011 – Upper-Intermediate ESL news lesson plan about nuclear rating in Japan and speech given by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
April 10, 2011 – Intermediate ESL news lesson plan about the political conflict in the Ivory Coast between Gbagbo and Ouattara.
April 9, 2011 – Upper-Intermediate ESL news lesson plan about the political conflict in the Ivory Coast between Gbagbo and Ouattara.
April 6, 2011 – Advanced ESL news lesson plan about Japan’s latest problem with radiation in seawater after the tsunami and earthquake.
April 4, 2011 – Upper-intermediate ESL news lesson plan about Japan’s latest problem with radiation in seawater after tsunami and earthquake.
April 2, 2011 – Upper-intermediate ESL news lesson plan about India’s 2011 census, population increase, and the practice of feticide.
March 31, 2011 – Advanced ESL news lesson plan about the findings of India’s 2011 census regarding population and the low female birth rate.
March 28, 2011 – Advanced ESL news lesson plan about NATO/UN mission in Libya and the spread of unrest to neighboring countries Syria, Yemen, and Jordan.
March 26, 2011 – Upper-intermediate ESL breaking news lesson plan about NATO/UN mission in Libya and the spread of unrest to neighboring countries Syria, Yemen, and Jordan.
March 17, 2011 – Advanced English news lesson about Japanese forced to leave their homes because of nuclear radiation.
March 16, 2011 – Upper-Intermediate English news lesson about Japanese forced to leave their homes because of nuclear radiation.