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Moglen, Daniel – CATESOL Journal, 2014
Vast amounts of daily news content are widely available and easily accessible, and they can be converted into materials for intermediate and advanced ESL classes. This article will describe the why and how for integrating news media sources into a multiskills ESL classroom. Through the news, students are immediately engaged with the material…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, News Media
Montelongo, Jose A.; Hernandez, Anita C. – Reading Teacher, 2007
This article introduces a modification of the sentence completion task that acquaints students with various types of informational text structures (e.g., cause-effect, compare-contrast) and challenges their higher order reading and writing skills. When the individual sentences comprising an expository paragraph are intermingled with unrelated…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 4, Writing Skills, Sentences

Shuman, R. Baird – English Journal, 1990
Describes a classroom grammatical activity in which the teacher isolates typical sentences from textbooks and writes the individual words on placards. Describes how students are each given a placard and asked to form a sentence. Reports that students enjoyed this activity and began to get the feel of language and sentence structure. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grammar, Language Skills, Secondary Education

Kearney, Virginia Heumann – English Journal, 1995
Discusses how students can thoroughly understand the process of revising a few sentences by discussing revisions with a partner, reading the revisions of the same sentences by other students, and reviewing the best revisions with the whole class. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education

O'Hara, Ellen T. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1991
Offers a group approach method to learning new structures in German. Students practice one pattern by constructing sentences in a simple, mildly competitive board game that can easily be put together by the teacher. (GLR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Games, German, Group Activities

Westfall, Ruth; Foerster, Sharon – Hispania, 1996
Emphasizes that traditional textbook explanations of the preterite and imperfect tend to focus on their aspectual differences. The article argues that a comprehensive analysis of the interaction of these two tenses in narration must go beyond aspect to include their respective temporal and discourse properties. (30 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Metaphors

Barkley, Lawrence; Remler, Nancy Lawson; Waddell, Dave; Mills, Keturah N. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Offers four brief descriptions from composition/writing teachers of class activities that work well for them, addressing using a grocery list to help students understand why audience awareness is important; using group work to help students analyze literature; having students define and describe good writing; and helping students with specified…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Higher Education, Literature Appreciation
Ghosn, Irma K. – 1996
An approach to writing instruction for elementary and secondary school learners of English as a Second Language is described. The activity was developed for use in schools in non-English-speaking cultures where report writing skills may be neglected at that level. It introduces report writing and documentation of sources, and teaches the basic…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)