MRS. HOLLAND'S ESOL PAGE
Welcome to Mrs. Holland's ESOL
Page. On this page you'll find lots of links to learning activities for
both teachers and students.
Teacher
Resources | Student
Activity Pages
| Games
and Puzzles
| Oral Language/Listening Comprehension |
| Giving Directions
-This site describes
a variety of classroom activities designed to help students with the important
survival skills of asking and giving
directions. This site offers downloadable Information Gap and Cloze
worksheets. |
| Telephone
English: Making
Plans -This lesson has
role-play exercises. Teachers can download worksheets for activities in
which both callers and receivers practice listening and speaking in
addition to scheduling appointments. |
| What's
Your Favorite
Food? - Students have
opportunities to practice oral language and listening comprehension as
they conduct a survey about favorite foods. |
| Telephone
Skills -Downloadable
dialogue worksheets require students to locate a partner with a
coordinating conversation snippet. |
| Drama-But Yes
Dialogue
Game -Although
designated elementary, teachers at the secondary level could also use
this Internet resource for game directions. They will need to provide
topic sentences, perhaps from a current unit of study. |
| Talking About Families
-This activity, designed
mainly for upper-beginning students and higher,requires students to
listen to a conversation about a family. As an extra scaffold and
integration of reading into the activity, the site offers a script of
the audio. |
| School Subjects -This activity, designed mainly for
upper-beginning students and higher, helps students learn important
school vocabulary. Once again, students can listen to a recording of
the correct pronunciations. |
| Listening
for Vowel Sounds -This
site for beginning English Language Learners offers the additional
scaffolding of pictures as well pronunciation recordings designed to
help students discriminate between phonemes. |
| Listening to
English Pronunciation -This
site offers scaffolding for beginning English learners, allowing them
to practice confusing minimal pairs. |
| Conversations:Negative
Questions -This activity is
appropriate for intermediate ESOL students struggling with the English
syntax of question formation. |
|
Sites
for Lesson Planning
|
| Roger's TESOL
Page |
| Dave's
ESOL Cafe |
| Breaking News English |
| Web English Teacher |
| Boggle's World |
 |
| STUDENT ACTIVITY PAGES |
 June 18th
Assignment: Seedfolks: Lesson
1-As you complete this assignment, you will create a Concept Definition Map, find out about Cleveland, Ohio, and learn more about creating community gardens. |
| Dunedin Activity Page Learn more about Dunedin's Scottish heritage. |
|
| GAMES AND PUZZLES |
| Jim's
Crankophone-Practice
your vowel sounds with Jim's Crankophone. Fun site! |
| Game Goo-Learning
that Sticks:) Lots of fun games that will help you with your reading. |
| Wordblender -Combine onset and
rime to make new words. |
