The classes listed below are grouped by English proficiency level, but within the proficiency levels, the lessons are not necessarily listed from easiest to most difficult.

In most cases, I have included a .pdf of the file (so you can tell what it’s intended to look like) and a .doc (so that you can make changes). You are free to use and adapt these materials for your own purposes (as long as they are non-commercial), but please keep in mind the Creative Common License. I’d love to hear from you if you are using them–what you’re doing with them, how you’ve altered them, and what works/doesn’t work. Leave me some comments!

False beginner conversation

Hawaii focus

• A brief history of Hawaii (.pdf) (.doc)
• Alphabets: English, Korean, & Hawaiian (.pdf) (.doc)
• Final project (.pdf) (.doc)
• Hawaiian food (.pdf) (.doc)
• Hawaiian geography (.pdf) (.doc)
• Hawaiian tourism (.pdf) (.doc)
• Hawaii review (.pdf) (.doc)
• (news) Rockslide in Waimea (.pdf) (.doc)
• (news) Hawaii’s commemorative quarter (.pdf) (.doc)
• (news) Hawaii tofu shop closing (.pdf) (.doc)
• (news) Pineapple (.pdf) (.doc)

American holidays focus

• Black History Month (.pdf) (.doc)
• Earth Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Easter (.pdf) (.doc)
• Groundhog Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Mardi Gras (.pdf) (.doc)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Memorial Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Mothers’ Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Presidents’ Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• St. Patrick’s Day (.pdf) (.doc)
• Super Bowl Sunday (.pdf) (.doc)
• Valentine’s Day (.pdf) (.doc)

Food focus

• Subway restaurant field trip prep (.pdf) (.doc)
• Subway restaurant field trip homework (.pdf) (.doc)
• Recipe project (.pdf) (.doc)
• Recipe project presentation listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)

Other

• Shopping homework (.pdf) (.doc)
• Shopping project (.pdf) (.doc)
• Shopping project listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)
• “Never” grammar (.pdf) (.doc)
• Email closings (.pdf) (.doc)
• Email project (.pdf) (.doc)
• Email project presentation listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa sports field trip (.pdf) (.doc)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa intramural sports project (.pdf) (.doc)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa intramural sports project presentation listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)
• Art museum field trip prep (.pdf) (.doc)
• Art museum field trip homework (.pdf) (.doc)
• (news) Forever stamp (.pdf) (.doc)

Low intermediate: International travel focus

(Some of these files were originally created by other teachers, then substantially modified by me. Check the properties of the .docs to see who the other authors are.)

Prepositions (used when explaining travel itineraries)

• Partner exercise, teacher’s copy (.pdf) (.doc)
• Partner exercise, answer key (.pdf) (.doc)
• Partner exercise, student A (.pdf) (.doc)
• Partner exercise, student B (.pdf) (.doc)

Betsy’s International Cuisine

• Menu (.pdf) (.doc)
• Answer key/menu descriptions (.doc)
• Student A (.doc)
• Student B (.doc)
• Follow-up exercise (.doc)

Serving situations

• Answer key (.pdf) (.doc)
• Student A (.pdf) (.doc)
• Student B (.pdf) (.doc)
• Both students, continued (.pdf) (.doc)

Other: restaurants

• Food word quiz (.pdf) (.doc)
• Fast food discussion and reading (.pdf) (.doc)
• Tipping (.pdf) (.doc)

Other

• Initial questionnaire (.pdf) (.doc)
• Vocabulary log assignment (.pdf) (.doc)
• Travel project and grading rubric (.pdf) (.doc)
• Travel project presentation listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)
• Field trip to Kahala resort prep (.pdf) (.doc)
• Field trip to Kahala resort homework (.pdf) (.doc)
• Jeopardy game (.pdf) (.doc)
• Travel advice interview worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)
• Travel advice interview presentation listening worksheet (.pdf) (.doc)

Intermediate/high intermediate

Friends, idiom-focused worksheets

• The one where Rachel finds out (.pdf) (.doc)
• The one with the fake Monica (.pdf) (.doc)

Other

• Vocabulary journal assignment/quiz explanation (.pdf) (.doc)
• Vocabulary journal template (.pdf) (.xls)

Joy of math (high intermediate)

Although this class is intended for high intermediate students, it deserves its own category because this is a class that I developed, from concept to materials to instruction to revisions.

Day 1

• Syllabus and schedule (.pdf) (.doc)
• Initial partner questionnaire (.pdf) (.doc)
• Questionnaire on preferred course topics (.pdf) (.doc)
• Vocabulary journal assignment (.pdf) (.doc)
• Explanation of vocabulary quizzes and games (.pdf) (.doc)
• Vocabulary pretest (.pdf) (.doc)
• Vocabulary pretest key (.pdf) (.doc)

English numbers hinder math skills (discussion/homework for Day 1)

• Discussion/reading (.pdf) (.doc)
• Online (Hot Potatoes quiz) comprehension exercise (.htm) (.jqz)
• Online (Hot Potatoes crossword) vocabulary exercise (.htm) (.jcw)

Little Twelvetoes (Schoolhouse Rock)

• Listening/viewing exercise, homework, and follow-up discussion (.pdf) (.doc)
• Online (Hot Potatoes cloze) comprehension exercise (.htm) (.jcl)
• Online (Hot Potatoes cloze) grammar exercise part 1 (.htm) (.jcl)
• Online (Hot Potatoes quiz) grammar exercise part 2 (.htm) (.jqz)
• Online (Hot Potatoes mix) grammar exercise part 3 (.htm) (.jmx)
• Online (Hot Potatoes mix) grammar exercise part 4 (.htm) (.jmx)
• Online (Hot Potatoes mix) grammar exercise part 5 (.htm) (.jmx)
• Online grammar exercise part 6 (.html)

My Hero, Zero (Schoolhouse Rock)/Significant numbers

• Listening/viewing exercise, reading, and follow-up discussion (.pdf) (.doc)
• Listening/viewing answer key (.pdf) (.doc)
• Online (Hot Potatoes quiz) reading comprehension exercise (.htm) (.jqz)
• Online (Hot Potatoes matching) vocabulary exercise (.htm) (.jmt)

Other

• Project assignment (.pdf) (.doc)
• Task rating slip (.pdf) (.doc)

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