ESL: English as a Second Language

Use this site with students for practice of listening skills and vocabulary building through music videos by popular artists with accompanying listening cloze activities. For this activity we have chosen the song "Upside Down at the beginning level, but if your students are at another level, feel free to choose another level or another song that fits more closely with your vocabulary objectives or topic of study.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use any one of the apps 21 free stories with students to practice parts of speech, listening, reading, and storytelling.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use the site Mad:)Takes, similar to Mad Libs, as a whole-class warm-up or filler activity, or as a parts of speech practice activity for an individual student.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use the Web Site Example link (above) when teaching simple past tense verbs. There are clip art images of verbs with audio files. Select the arrow play button (not the Play button) to hear the verbs said in past tense.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High

In this activity, students will brainstorm solutions to a proposed problem, write a dialog, and then use MakeBeliefsComix to create a comic strip using the dialog. When complete, students can print, e-mail, or post the comics on a Web site. Students can also present their comic strips in class.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced