Help your students understand the building blocks of language. Choose some of the links below to start creating an online beginners’ class (CLB 1-4) on English grammar.
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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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Parts of speech
Lesson plans
Nouns and adjectives: A natural pair
Understand how to use and combine two related parts of speech.
Resources
Links to helpful external resources …
- Easy English Boana: What are parts of speech? (YouTube video.)
- Ellii: Grammar Targets videos (Short and easy-to-understand videos with practice sections.)
- Learning Chocolate:
- Grammar (Practice the vocabulary for a wide variety of grammar issues.)
- Parts of speech (Game to guess the parts of speech.)
- TEFL Handbook: Parts of speech, ESL lesson plan for beginners (This lesson plan is classroom based but could easily be adapted for online learning.)
Verb tenses
Links to helpful external resources …
- Games to Learn English:
Pronouns
Links to helpful resources …
- Subject pronouns:
- Ellii: Subject pronouns (Video introducing subject pronouns):
- ESL Directions: Pronoun practice*
- Grammar Monster: Grammar test on pronouns (Scroll down to decide which type of pronouns to test.)
- Wordwall (Multiple games):
- Object pronouns:
- Ellii: Object pronouns (Introductory video.)
- Wordwall (Games to practice object pronouns or to compare them with subject pronouns):
- Discussion questions:
- LearnHip conversation questions (Click on a variety of topics that focus on verb tenses.)
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Nouns and adjectives: A natural pair
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