Interactive Language

  Looking for a Spring Logic Puzzles Bundle for students going on or coming back from spring break? Why not take a look at this one? I'm working on a new product line: logic puzzles! I've always found these fun to do, especially when there's an attached grid for marking off what you've learned from the clues provided. Most people mark the grids using ticks and crosses, but I've found it's very soothing to color in the grid squares using colored pencils. (Now I know why adult coloring books are so popular!) My logic puzzles have a little twist to them in that the clues are written in rhyming verse, so students need to work a little more to figure them out.  For example, the first clue in the Spring Picnic Logic Puzzle (which is included in this bundle) reads: Alice’s food is something neat,   A tasty treat with bread and meat.   Her pet has feathers small and bright,   The dress she wears is like firelight. From this, students can use the grid to...

  St. Patrick's Day Reading Comprehension & Questions includes a quick 2-page reading comprehension exercise and accompanying quiz for St. Patrick's Day. Many of my students don't know a lot about St. Patrick's Day, which isn't a common holiday where I am, so I put together this reading comprehension exercise to help them get a better understanding of the holiday and associated customs. The 2-page, 400-word reading comprehension file covers three topics: History and Origin of St. Patrick’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day Traditions, and Irish Mythology and Symbols of Luck. A vocabulary list is included at the end of the file. The students can then use the accompanying quiz to test their understanding of the reading comprehension file. There's a 3-page printable quiz file that can be printed out and given to students, and a self-checking digital quiz file that can be used for going through the quiz questions with students. There are a total of 15 quiz questions. (Ans...

Let's talk about St. Patrick's Day, which is coming up this month on March 17. This holiday isn't common where I am, so students were quite curious about its origins and traditions. This lesson is called Let's Talk About St. Patrick's Day and is part of my  Seasonal Conversations in English  lesson bundle, which takes students through a conversation between two people talking about various holidays.  The lesson starts with a brief one-page introduction to the holiday: We then move into a short conversation between two people who discuss the origins of St. Patrick's Day, St. Patrick's Day traditions, and Irish foods eaten on St. Patrick's Day. The conversation slides all have embedded audio files which can be played by clicking on the blue icon in the top left corner: There is also a slide with an audio file for the entire conversation: For beginner-level students, I tend to play the conversation line by line first so they can read along with the attached...

St. Patrick's Day isn't celebrated (or even commonly known) where I am, so I wasn't sure whether or not to make any related products, but...there aren't that many special occasions in March, I'm saving lessons on spring for April, and today a student asked about St. Patrick's Day, saying they had seen a video talking about it online, so I decided I might as well make some materials. Words for St. Patrick's Day   contains an interactive point-and-click game to help beginner to intermediate ESL students learn vocabulary associated with St. Patrick's Day. This lesson is part of the Words for Holiday bundle, which contains lessons for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Lesson materials include an interactive gameplay slideset, vocabulary slides with embedded audio files, discussion questions, and writing prompts, so students can practice reading, listening, writing, and speaking all in one lesson! The...

Go all-out on Valentine's Day with this Valentine's Day Activity Bundle! This lesson bundle contains three lesson resources to help beginner to intermediate ESL/EFL/ELL students learn, visualize, and remember words associated with Valentine's Day: Be My Valentine : A Valentine's Day escape room activity Words for Valentine's Day : Interactive point-and-click games for vocabulary learning Let's Talk About Valentine's Day : Listen to a conversation about Valentine's Day and practice speaking with included prompts Buy the Valentine's Day Activity Bundle on TPT. Or buy each lesson individually on TPT: Be My Valentine Words for Valentine's Day Let's Talk About Valentine's Day

Words for Valentine's Day  contains an interactive point-and-click game to help beginner to intermediate ESL students learn vocabulary associated with Valentine's Day. This lesson is part of the  Words for Holiday  bundle, which contains lessons for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Lesson materials include an interactive gameplay slideset, vocabulary slides with embedded audio files, discussion questions, and writing prompts, so students can practice reading, listening, writing, and speaking all in one lesson! The gameplay slideset contains two types of games. The first is a single-page game (“Put the items in the cupboard”) with multiple items shown alongside a list that students can use to learn the English words of everyday items. When students click on the correct item, it will automatically move into the cupboard to the top right of the slide. The second is a multi-page game (“Click the correct item to answer th...

Love is in the air this week because Valentine's Day is coming up on Friday! I've added "Let's Talk About Valentine's Day" to my Seasonal Conversations in English lesson bundle, which takes students through a conversation between two people talking about Valentine's Day.  The lesson starts with a brief one-page introduction to the holiday: We then move into a short conversation between two people who discuss Valentine's Day cards, Valentine's Day activities, and Valentine's Day gifts. The conversation slides all have embedded audio files which can be played by clicking on the blue icon in the top left corner: There is also a slide with an audio file for the entire conversation: For beginner-level students, I tend to play the conversation line by line first so they can read along with the attached transcript before listening to the whole conversation, but for more advanced students, I usually play the entire conversation first (without letting...