ESL: English as a Second Language

Students create a narrated PowerPoint with images (clip art) and sentences they have written about their goals and dreams for the future, using future verb tenses.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

In this activity, students will use Microsoft Word's Readability Statistics and synonyms to find more sophisticated vocabulary and thus improve their writing.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Students use e-mail to write chain stories. Students co-author stories in three parts with a beginning, middle, and end.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate High, Advanced

Use this Web site to make online quizzes, polls, ratings, or surveys for your classes. The free account provides 200 survey responses per month and 10 questions per survey.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All Levels

Use one of the Web site's more than 800 free, shared activities can be used as a warm-up or filler, or for reinforcement and review for listening, reading, vocabulary, or grammar. Students can be assigned to practice individually, but the activities may best be used as whole-class fun games. The example activity can be used as a whole-class review of the parts of speech.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All Levels