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26. Describe Your Dream Home

Activity Description

Dreamhouse
Source: Bing by Bing Image Creator (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
describe a dream home by house-type, location, rooms, and amenities.
use websites to research and locate homes for rent or sale.
collaborate with other students and present information to the class

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low
27. Description Writing with AI Image Generators

Activity Description

In this activity, students write descriptions of an image using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, learn about AI image prompting, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills.

Screenshot of Google Arts & Culture Say What You See
Source: Say What You See by Google (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this lesson, students write descriptions using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills. The follow-up is a descriptive writing assignment.
 

 

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
28. Digitized Folk Story Retell

Activity Description

Decorative Plate
Source: Pixabay by lukinIgor (License: Creative Commons 1.0)
 
 
Students learn about the features of folk stories, listen to a folk story and retell it, practice pronunciation of past tense verbs, and select a folk story from their native countries or the United States to digitize and present to the class.
 
This lesson is inspired by the Teaching Skills that Matter lesson plan, Digital Literacy: Folk Stories Project-Based Learning Lesson.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced
29. Dream Vacation Project

Activity Description

Brown Glass Bottle Beside White Book...
Source: Unsplash by S'well (License: CC0/Public Domain)

Students choose a destination for a dream vacation, research a destination, transportation, what to do and see there, and lodging, and then create a simple budget. They then present their vacation in a slideshow to the class. 

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced
30. Enchanted Learning: Inventors and Inventions

Activity Description

Intermediate and advanced students learn about inventions and inventors through jigsaw reading and follow up by writing a paragraph and/or making an oral presentation about an important invention or inventor.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.