Spelling bee activity
A spelling bee is a competition where contestants are asked to spell words. The origin of the spelling bee is believed to be in the United States. Nowadays, spelling bee events are organized in...
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Seven picture activities for English learners
Picture activities These are seven picture activities that English teachers can use in EFL or ESL classrooms. They can be used to teach vocabulary writing or grammar. 1. Identifying pictures You need to choose...
ESL and EFL Website
ManyThings is a website for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL) or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). There are: quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator...
Facts about teaching idioms
Teaching idioms The English language has thousands of idioms. Being a fluent English speaker entails being able to understand and use English idioms. Facts about idioms These are some facts about idioms (source: Wikipedia)...
English words of Arabic origin
English and the world English is a rich language. Its lexicon has a multitude of words from different origins. In fact, English has evolved through centuries open to the influence of other civilizations, other...
Word Prediction Lesson Plan
Vocabulary Prediction Lesson Plan These activities can be used to refine understanding of students vocabulary schematic knowledge and activate vocabulary related to the same semantic network. They can be done as pre-reading activities or...
Reading and Vocabulary
Reading Successful reading is determined by many factors including automaticity of lexical access and the ability to store vocabulary knowledge in semantically related networks (schema theory.) These theoretical postulates have many interesting implications for...
WordNet – Lexical Database of English
WordNet WordNet is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller, professor of psychology at Princeton University. Word Net is a useful tool because of many reasons: Nouns,...
Vocabulary Building Lesson Plan
From alphabet to writing a story By the end of this activity students will learn 26 new words and use them in sentences or to write a story. The materials required are a dictionary,...
Teaching activity: compound nouns
Compound nouns This activity teaches students compound nouns, their form and meaning. The materials required are cards and pens or pencils. It can last for 30 minutes. The activity On different cards, write down...