Students are introduced to how + adjective questions used to describe things. ‘Made in, by, and of’ are also introduced so students can talk about an objects maker, country of original and material. A conversation has students asking about lost property.
Let’s go Places Topic
Talking about movies and movie theaters.
Picture Overview
Students might identify theaters, a ticket booth, 3D glasses, popcorn, drinks, a concession stand, movie posters.
Example Questions in this Handout
How much does a ticket for a 64 year old person cost?
What is the woman carrying on a tray?
How much does a large popcorn and drink cost?
‘Let’s Go Places’ is a series of English language lesson handouts that encourage your ESL students to talk about their experiences and share their opinions about interesting and practical situations. ‘Let’s Go Places’ uses beautiful color pictures. Topic based activities help ESL students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency through questions and answers.
The present continuous (also called present progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening now, either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense. Introduce your students to the present continuous tense and practice asking and answering questions. Students are also introduced to vocabulary about items of clothing.
Students are introduced to vocabulary to talk about countries and nationalities as well as questions to find out more about someone. The verb ‘to be’ in the simple present tense is introduced for students to talk about themselves and others. A fun Bingo game is included.
Although Japan is a world-leader when it comes to the provision of paternity leave, (a very generous one year), in reality only 6 percent of eligible fathers took child care leave. Furthermore, over 70 per cent of men who did take paid-leave, took less than 2 weeks. A Japanese government commissioned study concluded that the majority of new fathers wanted to take child care leave but were concerned that it might be a burden on their co-workers, cause them financial difficulties, or even affect their chances of promotion.
About In the News Handouts
Engage and challenge your intermediate and advanced level students with learning based current event topics. ‘In the News’ handouts offer reading, listening, and a variety of English learning activities based on the topic. Activities included are useful for students preparing for international English tests as well as a fun and engaging review for advanced students.
Students are introduced to different common phrases to discuss their daily routines as well as Adverbs of Frequency to talk about how often and when they do different things. Emphasis is given to forming object questions using auxiliary verb ‘do’.
Adverbs of Frequency introduced in this Handout
Never, hardly ever, sometimes, usually, and always.
Modal verbs such as can, must, may, might, will, and should are used with other verbs to express ability, obligation, possibility, and so on. Modal verbs are unlike other verbs. They do not change their form (spelling) and they have no infinitive or participle (past/present). This handout introduces essential modal verbs and useful phrases to help students form meaningful sentences.
Let’s go Places Topic
Talking about banks, banking, and money.
Picture Overview
The picture(s) in this handout illustrate two floors in a bank. There are bank tellers, ATMs, currency exchange, safety deposit boxes, a vault, a security officer/guard, customers.
Example Questions in this Handout
What are the bank’s opening hours?
What is customer 015 doing at the teller?
How much is 1 US dollar worth in Canadian dollars?
Students can practice using adjectives to describe food by doing a crossword. This would make a great homework or quick classroom activity.
Your ESL students practice asking present simple questions. This handout focuses on third person singular he, she, it. Students practice asking each other questions about Japanese tennis star Nishikori Kei, completing questions using DO and DOES, and asking each other about their free time in a fun question and answer activity.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Your ESL students learn about Coronavirus (COVID-19) and World Health Organization recommendations to prevent infection such as washing hands and maintaining social distance. A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain that had not previously been identified in humans. Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.
This handout is Part 1 of a 4-part Travel Miniseries.
1. Places Around Town
2. Places to Live and Visit
3. Talking about Travel
4. Directions and Destinations
Students are introduced to common shops and places around where with live and how to talk about singular and plural nouns/objects with a, an, and some.
Vocabulary reviewed in this handout:
a pharmacy, a supermarket, a butcher shop, a cafe, a hospital, a market, a bakery, a library, a post office, a park.
In any language there are always going to be only two kinds of questions possible; yes/no questions and information questions. All types of conversations will have people asking and waiting for a yes or no response or for some kind of information response in order to establish communication with others. This handout looks at question types using BE verb and the auxiliary verb DO in particular in the simple past tense.
Students practice asking questions using a variety of standard question words and giving appropriate answers. Special attention is given to the patterns used when forming questions in English.
Question words covered in this handout:
How many, How often, When, Where, How, Who, How long, What, Which, Why.
Students are introduced to how + adjective questions used to describe things. ‘Made in, by, and of’ are also introduced so students can talk about an objects maker, country of original and material. A conversation has students asking about lost property.
Let’s go Places Topic
Talking about movies and movie theaters.
Picture Overview
Students might identify theaters, a ticket booth, 3D glasses, popcorn, drinks, a concession stand, movie posters.
Example Questions in this Handout
How much does a ticket for a 64 year old person cost?
What is the woman carrying on a tray?
How much does a large popcorn and drink cost?
‘Let’s Go Places’ is a series of English language lesson handouts that encourage your ESL students to talk about their experiences and share their opinions about interesting and practical situations. ‘Let’s Go Places’ uses beautiful color pictures. Topic based activities help ESL students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency through questions and answers.
The present continuous (also called present progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening now, either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense. Introduce your students to the present continuous tense and practice asking and answering questions. Students are also introduced to vocabulary about items of clothing.
Students are introduced to vocabulary to talk about countries and nationalities as well as questions to find out more about someone. The verb ‘to be’ in the simple present tense is introduced for students to talk about themselves and others. A fun Bingo game is included.
Although Japan is a world-leader when it comes to the provision of paternity leave, (a very generous one year), in reality only 6 percent of eligible fathers took child care leave. Furthermore, over 70 per cent of men who did take paid-leave, took less than 2 weeks. A Japanese government commissioned study concluded that the majority of new fathers wanted to take child care leave but were concerned that it might be a burden on their co-workers, cause them financial difficulties, or even affect their chances of promotion.
About In the News Handouts
Engage and challenge your intermediate and advanced level students with learning based current event topics. ‘In the News’ handouts offer reading, listening, and a variety of English learning activities based on the topic. Activities included are useful for students preparing for international English tests as well as a fun and engaging review for advanced students.
Students are introduced to different common phrases to discuss their daily routines as well as Adverbs of Frequency to talk about how often and when they do different things. Emphasis is given to forming object questions using auxiliary verb ‘do’.
Adverbs of Frequency introduced in this Handout
Never, hardly ever, sometimes, usually, and always.
Modal verbs such as can, must, may, might, will, and should are used with other verbs to express ability, obligation, possibility, and so on. Modal verbs are unlike other verbs. They do not change their form (spelling) and they have no infinitive or participle (past/present). This handout introduces essential modal verbs and useful phrases to help students form meaningful sentences.
Let’s go Places Topic
Talking about banks, banking, and money.
Picture Overview
The picture(s) in this handout illustrate two floors in a bank. There are bank tellers, ATMs, currency exchange, safety deposit boxes, a vault, a security officer/guard, customers.
Example Questions in this Handout
What are the bank’s opening hours?
What is customer 015 doing at the teller?
How much is 1 US dollar worth in Canadian dollars?
The present continuous (also called present progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening now, either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense. Introduce your students to the present continuous tense and practice asking and answering questions. Students are also introduced to vocabulary about items of clothing.
Modal verbs such as can, must, may, might, will, and should are used with other verbs to express ability, obligation, possibility, and so on. Modal verbs are unlike other verbs. They do not change their form (spelling) and they have no infinitive or participle (past/present). This handout introduces essential modal verbs and useful phrases to help students form meaningful sentences.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Your ESL students learn about Coronavirus (COVID-19) and World Health Organization recommendations to prevent infection such as washing hands and maintaining social distance. A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain that had not previously been identified in humans. Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Many countries around the world are currently experiencing ‘panic buying’ because of the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. Some badly-affected countries have recommended or demanded that people stay-at-home leading to people stockpiling supplies of necessities, in anticipation of an extended period of ‘social distancing’. The stockpiling has resulted in shops running out of products such as toilet paper.
Students talk about their health and symptoms in the present simple tense. Giving advice is introduced and students practice using should and shouldn’t.
Health symptoms introduced in this Lesson:
I have a headache / I have a sore head.
I have a stomachache / I have a sore stomach.
I have a fever / I have a high temperature.
I have a cough.
I have a sore throat.
I have a runny nose.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Teleworking is the activity of working from home while maintaining contact with your office by email, telephone, or video calls. Around the world, about 20 per cent of workers telework frequently and about 1 in 10 do so every day. For companies, the benefits are reduced costs, while for workers the advantage is they can spend more time with their families or doing leisure activities, rather than commuting.
The present continuous (also called present progressive) is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening now, either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense. Introduce your students to the present continuous tense and practice asking and answering questions. Students are also introduced to vocabulary about items of clothing.
Students are introduced to relative clauses and how to identify which pronouns are used to discuss people and things. Students study and practice how to connect two different sentences/clauses using relative pronouns.
Although Japan is a world-leader when it comes to the provision of paternity leave, (a very generous one year), in reality only 6 percent of eligible fathers took child care leave. Furthermore, over 70 per cent of men who did take paid-leave, took less than 2 weeks. A Japanese government commissioned study concluded that the majority of new fathers wanted to take child care leave but were concerned that it might be a burden on their co-workers, cause them financial difficulties, or even affect their chances of promotion.
About In the News Handouts
Engage and challenge your intermediate and advanced level students with learning based current event topics. ‘In the News’ handouts offer reading, listening, and a variety of English learning activities based on the topic. Activities included are useful for students preparing for international English tests as well as a fun and engaging review for advanced students.
Help your students gain confidence and fluency when asking questions in the simple present tense by reading and asking about daily routines. This handout focuses on the third person and constructing object questions using the auxiliary verb ‘do.
Let’s go Places Topic
Talking about movies and movie theaters.
Picture Overview
Students might identify theaters, a ticket booth, 3D glasses, popcorn, drinks, a concession stand, movie posters.
Example Questions in this Handout
How much does a ticket for a 64 year old person cost?
What is the woman carrying on a tray?
How much does a large popcorn and drink cost?
‘Let’s Go Places’ is a series of English language lesson handouts that encourage your ESL students to talk about their experiences and share their opinions about interesting and practical situations. ‘Let’s Go Places’ uses beautiful color pictures. Topic based activities help ESL students explore new vocabulary and build English fluency through questions and answers.
Students are introduced to how + adjective questions used to describe things. ‘Made in, by, and of’ are also introduced so students can talk about an objects maker, country of original and material. A conversation has students asking about lost property.
There are four types of questions; general or yes/no questions; questions using wh-words; choice questions; or tag questions. This handout has students forming and asking simple Wh questions with a partner. Encourage students to use their imagination and answer quickly. The present simple and present continuous tenses are reviewed.
There are three verbs that English speakers commonly use when talking about sports and other activities: go, do and play. This handout focuses on collocations using go, play, and do with a number of engaging activities.
Collocations about sport introduced in this handout:
go jogging, go swimming, go rock climbing, play tennis, play baseball, play soccer, do exercise, do yoga, do gymnastics.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Japan’s recent tax increase and government encouragement to use cashless payment systems.
‘In the News’ Current Events Intro:
In October the Japanese government increased consumption tax from 8% to 10%, at the same time, they started a scheme to promote the use of cashless payments. Cashless payments include credit and debit cards, as well as IC transit cards, virtual wallets and payment apps that use QR codes. Japanese customers now have a bewildering number of different ways to pay for items
This handout introduces basic affirmative and negative sentence structures. Students practice starting with a pronoun as the subject followed by a verb and a suitable object or adjective. Students can also practice using an auxiliary verb and ‘not’ before a regular verb or ‘not’ after ‘be’ verb to make it negative.
Handout and Listening Topic:
Teleworking is the activity of working from home while maintaining contact with your office by email, telephone, or video calls. Around the world, about 20 per cent of workers telework frequently and about 1 in 10 do so every day. For companies, the benefits are reduced costs, while for workers the advantage is they can spend more time with their families or doing leisure activities, rather than commuting.
An introduction to emailing compares casual and formal phrases and expressions used when writing emails. Review the various parts of an email; staring, introducing topics, and ending. Students can discuss various types of communication as well as the differences between casual and formal phrases.