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Community
in the ESOL Classroom: Large Lessons in the Everyday, Part
1
By Christine
Poreba, with thanks to Julie Boutwell-Peterson, Susan Lester
and Charles Greenwell for their contribution of ideas
Establishing
a strong sense of community at the beginning of the year
is essential for any classroom. It seems especially important,
however, in a room of students from diverse countries, all
of whom will undertake the challenging task of communicating
in a language other than their own. Below is a list, compiled
with the help of fellow ESOL teachers at ACE, of some successful,
community-building activities which are ideal for those
first few months of school.
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http://literacynet.org/vtd/
If you have ESOL students and want lessons that provide the
language practice for visiting the doctor, this site has practice
dialogue for beginning or intermediate English language learners
including the following:
- Making
an Appointment
- Getting
Medical Advice on the Phone
- Some
Common Questions the Doctor or Nurse May Ask You
- Talking
About Your Symptoms
- Going
to the Hospital
The
site also includes word games and puzzles for health care
vocabulary development, with scrambled words for beginners
and scrambled sentences for intermediate students. Word
search puzzles and crossword puzzles include parts of the
body, symptoms, at the pharmacy, staying healthy, the body
and at the hospital.
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