Comparatives ESL Grammar Games: Basketball Games for Kids of ESL Bigger, Smaller, Faster, Slower: ESL Kids Grammar Game.

Comparatives ESL Grammar Games:

Basketball Games for Kids of ESL

Bigger, Smaller, Faster, Slower: ESL Kids Grammar Game.

http://eslpuzzles.com/Grammar%20Games/Adjective%20Games/Comparatives%20Game%20Basketball.html

Conversation Class: Giving Information

http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/giving_information.html

1. Jeremy is from Ohio. 2. Kelly is a saleswoman. 3. He's a university student. 4. Ronda lives in Texas. 5. I work at a restaurant. 6. I live in Florida. 8. Where are you from? 9. What is your occupation?

Oh really? What part of Ohio? Is that right? What company? Oh. What university? Really? What city (in Texas)? Oh really? Which restaurant? Oh yeah? Where in Florida? I'm from Delaware. I'm a police officer.

Columbus. Microsoft. Harvard. Dallas. Angelo Meroni's Orlando.

Conversation Class: Telling the time

Telling the time

To tell the time means to say what the time is, perhaps after somebodyasks the time.

Asking the time

Here are some phrases you can use when you want to know the time:

• What's the time?
• What time is it?
• Have you got the right time?
• What time do you make it?

Telling the time

To tell someone what the time is, we can say "The time is..." or, more usually, "It's...". Here is a typical dialogue:

Question:	What's the time, please?
Answer:	It's three o'clock.

The chart below shows you two different ways to tell someone what the time is.

	more formal	less formal
	It's...	It's...
3.00	three o'clock	three
3.02	just gone three o'clock	three oh two
3.03	three minutes past three	three oh three
3.05	five past three	three oh five
3.09	nine minutes past three	three oh nine
3.10	ten past three	three ten
3.15	a quarter past three	three fifteen
3.20	twenty past three	three twenty
3.21	twenty-one minutes past three	three twenty-one
3.25	twenty-five past three	three twenty-five
3.30	half past three	three thirty
3.35	twenty-five to four	three thirty-five
3.40	twenty to four	three forty
3.45	a quarter to four	three forty-five
3.50	ten to four	three fifty
3.55	five to four	three fifty-five
3.57	three minutes to four	three fifty-seven
3.58	nearly four o'clock	three fifty-eight
4.00	four o'clock	four

Expressing Time in English

Clock game

Clock

Clockworks

What time is it?

Conversation Class: Daily Activities

What is your daily routine?

WATCH THIS VIDEO WITH SUBTITLES AT https://youtu.be/hGL7MJrGEo0

What are some things that you do every day?

Describe a typical daily routine.

Tell what you do at various times throughout the day.

Ask your partner to tell you his/her daily schedule.

What time do you go to work/school? 

What time do you get out of class/get off work?

For example,

I get up at 7:00 every day.
Then I take a shower, get dressed and eat breakfast.
I leave my house at 8:00 and ride the bus to school.
I start class at 9:00 on Monday, and 10:00 on Thursday.
I usually have lunch at 1:00.
I finish class at 3:30 p.m.
On Saturday, I sleep in until 11:00.

Ask your partner about his/her daily routine.


Examples:
What time do you usually wake up?





What do you do in the evening?





What time do you get home on the weekends?

Choose the Song of the week

Solve World English Crossword

Conversation Class: Talking about Occupations

Talking about Occupations

Listening and conversation:

A: What do you do for a living?

A: What is your occupation?

B: I'm a____(mechanic)___________.

A: A____(mechanic)_____________? That must be a lot of work.

B: It is. Every day I ___(fix)_____ ___(cars)______.

A: How interesting. How many___(cars)_____ do you __(fix)____?

B: I ___(fix)_____ about __(8)____ __(cars)____ every day.

What is your job?

What do you do for a living?

WATCH THIS VIDEO WITH SUBTITLES AT 

https://youtu.be/Cd8fy4juZl0

Match the occupation with the daily activity.

Occupation Mechanic Teacher Dentist Doctor/Nurse Journalist Fisherman Gardener Chef/Cook Fire fighter Photographer

Activity catch fish take pictures fix cars cook meals pull teeth plant flowers put out fires take care of patients teach classes write news stories

Play the game: How much will you bet?

http://www.lingolex.com/howmbins.htm 

Do today's World English crossword puzzle

Sing song of the week

Conversation Class: Describing People

Conversation Practice

1. Tell your classmates about the people in your family. Describe their personality and appearance.

Example,

My father is kind of tall. I think he's handsome and smart.
My mom is really nice. She has short brown hair...

2. Describe your best friend to your partner. What kind of person is he/she? What does he/she look like?

Example,

Tony is my best friend. He looks like Tom Cruise. He's a very funny person.

3. Describe one of your classmates to your partner, and have him/her guess who you are describing.

Example,

This person is wearing jeans and a pink t-shirt. She has long blonde hair and blue eyes.
(Let me guess.) Is it Cindy?

Common Adjectives

 

http://www.eslgold.com/vocabulary/common_adjectives.html

Worksheets

 

 

 

Play Picture it!

 Solving World English Crossword

Practice song of the week!

Continue with phrasal verbs = Get 

Conversation Class: Talking about favourite things

Aim: Talk about favourite things using Wh words, short answers, basic vocabulary, simple present, activities.

Ice breaker: What is your favourite T.V. Show? This is my favourite one!

Part 1

Part 2

Pictionary with Megan Fox, Nick Cannon and Wiz Khalifa – Part 1

 

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Idioms and vocabulary:

          have a frog in your throat

  (informal)

to be unable to speak clearly until you give a slight cough Excuse me, I've got a bit of a frog in my throat.

get off your high horse

to stop acting as if you are better or more intelligent than other people He never got off his high horse long enough to consider how insulting his words were to many immigrants.

Usage notes: also used in the forms knock someone off their high horse and fall off your high horse

Source: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com

puppeteer: a person who uses puppets in performances to entertain people.

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puppeteer

corn dog:

noun

1.

a sandwich consisting of a frankfurter baked or fried in corn bread andusually spread with mustard before eating: often served on a stick.

Content:Talking about favourite 

things

• Phrases for these situations

Vocabulary for these situations:

• colors
• sports
• (school) subjects movies*

Conversation Practice

1. Tell about your favorite things (food, colors, sports, school subjects, movies, etc.)

Example,

My favorite color is red.
My favorite subject is biology.
I really like horror movies.

2. See if you can guess your partner's favorite things.

For Example,

I think your favorite color is green.
No, it isn't. It's blue.
And your favorite sport is swimming.
That's right!

3. Ask questions to find out about your classmates.

What kind of food do you like best?
I really like Vietnamese food.
I like Thai food best.

*Types of movies:
action /
horror /
romantic /
comedy /
drama /
western /

science fiction

Example Simple Present Questions:

1. What is your favorite color? 2. What's your favorite kind of music? 3. What's your favorite sport? 4. Do you have a lucky number? 5. What kind of food do you like best? 6. How about movies? 7. Who is your favorite movie star? 8. What city do you like most?

Source: http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/talking_favor_things.html

SOLVING THE WORLD ENGLISH WEB PAGE CROSSWORD 

http://www.worldenglish.edu.co/index.php/crucigrama

PHRASAL VERBS CLASS 

10 GET Phrasal Verbs: get down, get off, get through, get up, get away...

 

English Lessons with Adam - Learn English with 

Source: http://www.engvid.com/10-get-phrasal-verbs/

CLASS CONTEST: PICTIONARY ABOUT FAVOURITE THINGS

FILL IN BLANKS