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Learn English Vocabulary With Lists

This quick ESL pair work activity helps students remember, learn and use new words.

Download the vocabulary worksheet here: ESL vocabulary activity.

Work with a partner. Answer the questions.

Here is the key part. Ask your partner a couple of questions about those words. This will really help you remember key words and build your conversations skills.

Quick Writing Ideas  

ESL students and teachers sometimes need a quick, simple idea to start a writing project. Not a big essay. But a small prompt to get writing into action.

Here are three great ideas. I found them on a website. Here is the link. The site has lots of good writing ideas.

Writing Prompt 1. Visualization

Think about a place.  Maybe your favorite room. Living, kitchen, bathroom, workshop. Describe the room in great detail. The size, shape, color. The things in the room. What’s on the wall? What’s under the bed? What does it smell like? 

Write a paragraph that really puts the reader in the room.

Writing Prompt 2. The Senses

The idea is the same as #1 but here you are writing about food. Use words that activate every sense to describe food. You know, the size, color, taste, texture, sound of eating.

Food can also trigger memories. What do you remember when you eat that food?

Writing Prompt 3. 100 Words

The challenge here is to write only 100 words about one subject: what matters to you. It could be a short paragraph or a poem.  The writing could be an answer or a question.

Here is an example from the website. This poem was written by a grade 4 student. Very impressive work.

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Does the field of sunflowers matter?
The splash as I jump in a pool matters
The smell of the egg salad for my sandwich matters
The lead in my pencil matters
It all matters
It matters helping others
The winning goal matters
All the love in my family matters
The wanting of a dog matters
It matters the way I think
The rain out on the yard matters
The noise in the classroom matters
Do clean rooms matter?

Learn English Idioms and Words with a Video

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This is a great word power lesson. This lesson will increase your English vocabulary quickly.

Watch the video in this lesson. There are many different images in the video. Each image is connected by a single word or a group of words. 

Learn English Words and Idioms

Your job is to find the word or words that connect each image. Here is an example.

• In the first scene of the video, someone pushes the play button of a recording machine.
• In the next scene, we can see a stage play.
• So the connecting word is PLAY.

Many of the words are used literally. Some of the words and phrases are used as idioms. This is the key learning point for you.

I think there are 63 words and phrases that connect each scene. Can you find the 63 words and/or phrases that connect each group of images?

Here is a hint. In total (I think) there are nine key verbs and/or nouns used in this video.

Download the worksheet here.  The answers are also in the worksheet.

Good luck.