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Expressing agreement or disagreement: Work bundle
In this lesson, students learn how to voice their opinions, agree or disagree, and interrupt someone during a meeting. First, vocabulary is practiced with useful expressions. Then they have to give appropriate responses to sentences. They then …
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Literary reading skill: Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation rubric in Excel for literary reading skills such as for a book review.
Evaluates the components:
- personal experience,
- interpretation,
- judgement,
- analysis,
- text level on different parameters.
The end result is a score out of 10, with good …
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Coronavirus, teenagers and sleep: Task English
Language task around the article in The New York Times: The coronavirus, teenagers and sleep . Skills: Listening, Reading and Writing. Possibly add speaking by having the students make a short video message.
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Columbus Day: A controversial American holiday
This folder contains a letter history of Columbus Day (video, text with words missing and questions), an argumentative article exploring the controversies around Columbus Day, argumentative writing practice and a vocabulary exercise.
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Safe driving
Students read tips on how to behave safely in traffic, rank the tips according to category (speaking, group work), with additional vocabulary lists and exercises.
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Interview a classmate: Step-by-step plan
This assignment can be used as a first acquaintance with the classmates.
The students themselves first read an interview, talk about it and then draw up an interview to take away from a classmate.
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Quick thieves in Spain
Documentary about the gangs of thieves operating in Barcelona. Attached the full transcription of the video on YouTube with translation of difficult words.
Associated assignment: content questions and vocabulary.
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US Presidential Election: Read and Listen Command
Reading and listening text explaining how the US elections work. Attention is also paid to the vocabulary that is used.
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Dead Poets Society: Peer work
The tasks include:
- listening,
- writing,
- reading,
- vocabulary (personality adjectives / idioms / don't use very-words),
- grammar (active/passive).
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Short stories: Reading comprehension
Reading comprehension assignments for various short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle ...
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Building London's Underground: Leestest review
Read review with the book Building London's Underground, an argumentative text.
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Reading challenge
This is a 20-day reading challenge where the pupils have to read something English every day for 10 minutes and keep a logbook of this. What they read is completely free to choose.
This was an assignment in preparation for an oral exam and this was …
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