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Week of July 13/26
Teach your beginner ESL students strategies for making small talk about the weather in Canada.
This lesson plan’s activities include vocabulary building, listening and reading exercises, a short video, and role plays.
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Find topic-based digital resources for your adult beginner ESL students, including lesson plans and links to useful resources.
You will also see links to digital-friendly websites you can use to find and create resources for your beginner students (CLB 1-4).
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Kathy Garnsworthy, the creator of ESL Directions, is an ESL teacher, movie buff, constant reader, and former editor and communications pro. Now a graduate of the Teaching English as a Second Language program at the University of Manitoba and an ESL teacher in Edmonton, Alberta, she specializes in teaching online classes of beginner ESL students.
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