Lesson plans and other resources for your online beginners’ classes (CLB 1-4).
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Week of Dec. 15/25
Teach your beginner ESL students about preparing for a traditional Canadian Christmas and encourage them to share their own cultural traditions.
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Focus on content: Winter weather
Teach your students about winter weather. This video is part of the “Winter weather” lesson plan.
Weather and weather forecasts
Lesson plans
Weather forecasts
Learn the basic vocabulary needed to understand a weather forecast.
Weather forecasts for advanced beginners
Learn the vocabulary needed to understand a weather forecast. This lesson includes a greater focus on grammar and is intended for CLB 3-4.
Winter weather
Learn the basic vocabulary needed to describe winter weather.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- Anna Dyachenko, Regina Open Door Society: CLB 2 Listening Assessment: Weather Report
- E4B Free English Course: Weather Forecast – Everyday English Essentials (Video.)
- ESOL Courses: Weather words
- Games4ESL: Weather quiz
- Learning Chocolate:
- Literacy Centre of Expertise:
- Discussion questions:
- LearnHip: Conversation cards (Scroll to “The weather.”)
- The Internet TESL Journal Archives conversation questions: Weather
Seasons
Lesson plans
Seasons and months
Identify the seasons and months (and what to expect in Alberta).
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- ESOL Courses: Months of the year (Click on the “Months” and “Games” tabs for more activities.)
- ESL Games Plus: Days of the week
- Games4ESL:
- Learning Chocolate: Time/date index page (Days of the week, months, seasons, reading a calendar.)
- Wordwall:
- Handanteacher: Months order
- Kseniateacher: Months quiz (Multiple-choice questions.)
- U78236381: Months matchup*
- Dates/months/seasons discussion questions:
- The Internet TESL Journal Archives conversation questions:
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CANADA WORDWALL ACTIVITIES
Wordwall is a very useful interactive lesson-creation site. If you sign up for a free Wordwall account, you will be able to see our “Canada” folder, which includes ESL Directions activities that you can add to your lessons.
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