Valentine's Day and Relationships - complete PowerPoint Lesson

Valentine's Day soon...

complete lessons using only PowerPoint slides.

Can't be bothered to read the post? Get the lesson here

http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/powerpoint%20lessons/Relationships.pps

I think this lesson on relationships fits in really nicely with Valentine's Day, especially since the audio features a lady dumping her boyfriend. It's for pre-intermediate learners and should take about an hour. You only need the PowerPoint show above and working speakers to play the audio, students only need a pen and some paper.

Slide 2

Elicit different types of relationship from the class before you show the slide - mother, father etc. Now show the slide, students have to write their own explanation for each word.

Slide 3

Students match the phrasal verbs to the meaning.

Slide 4

Ask and answer the pre-listening questions as a class before listening to the girl dumping her boyfriend. Students answer the gist question.

Slide 5

Now students listen again and answer the more detailed questions

Slide 6

Students ask and answer these questions in pairs or small groups. You can monitor and give feedback at the end.

Here's the PowerPoint lesson again

http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/powerpoint%20lessons/Relationships.pps

You can find more lessons like this at http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/complete_PowerPoint_Lessons.htm

Comparative PowerPoint for ESOL and EFL

Here's a really simple powerpoint show that gets students to practise comparative adjectives. Higher levels can just shout out the answers and lower levels can painstakingly write the sentences out.

Here's the show http://chrisspeck.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/comparatives-easy.ppt

Simple powerpoint lesson - present simple/continuous - low level grammar

Don't have the time/need/desire to read the blog? Get the lesson here:

http://chrisspeck.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/presentsimplecontinuous.ppt

Here's a really simple PowerPoint lesson helping students to understand the difference between the present simple (I play the guitar) and the present continuous (I am playing the guitar).



How to use it.
I used this as part of a wider lesson comparing these tenses.
1. Ask students to explain the difference between these questions? 'What are you doing?' and 'What do you do?'. Hopefully they will explain that the first question is present continuous and is asking about an action happenign right now and the second asks about what you do every day - in other words, your job.

2. Show students the ppt and get them to write (or just shout out) two sentences. One in the present continuous for now and one in the present simple for always.

3. There are many possible answers that are correct and I added the most obvious ones on the last slide of the poweroint presentation.

Going further

Making your own powerpoint lesson with pictures is stupidly easy. Head to www.google.com/images and type in the name of the image you want, for example 'man driving a car'. You'll get a huge variety of images. Choose the one you would like to import into your presentation, click it, then, when it opens in its own window right click on it and choose 'copy'. Now, back in you powerpoint presentation right click and choose 'paste'.

If you've got a computer room, asking students to make their own powerpoint presentations either as part of a group or alone is a lot of fun. Especially when they have to present it to the rest of the class.

If you liked this lesson then get on down to www.englishlanguagespacestation.com for more of the same.

Complete Powerpoint lessons for ESOL/ESL and IELTS - Chatting with friends/ social interaction

Can't be bothered to read the post? Download the lesson here http://chrisspeck.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/chatting-with-friends.ppt



Here's yet another complete powerpoint lesson to use with your ielts/ ESOL or ESL class. It follows the same formula as my previous powerpoint lessons

This lesson focuses on social interaction and how people chat with each other often telling each other stories or anecdotes. It's pretty straight forward and has all the answers built in. If you do like it and use it, let us know how you got on.

If you'd like more of the same, please visit my previously bad but now quite good webiste and download some more www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/complete_PowerPoint_Lessons.htm

Quick PowerPoint lessons for ESOL / ESL/ IELTS - Quick Questions

Here's the first in a series of quick activities you can show on you IAWB or projector as part of a warm up, cool down or just a filler.

Can't be bothered to read the post download the lesson here.

Quick Questions

This is a pre intermediate - intermediate lesson and involves students answering questions as quick as they can. It should take about twenty minutes depending on the level of feedback and discussion after the main task.

1. ask students to write the numbers 1-30 (or less if you don't want to use all the slides). They are going to try and answer the questions they see on the screen as fast as they can.

2. Now run this powerpoint. Click the screen for the next question to appear. Allow students just enough time to read the question and write a brief answer.

3. When you've finished all the questions ask students to feedback their answers either to each other in pairs or groups or the whole class (I guess this depends on your class size).



Click here to download the 'Quick Questions' PowerPoint

Further ideas

This lesson works brilliantly in a computer room with all the students linked up to the same chat room and the questions either shown on interactive whiteboard or even just read out aloud- students can instantly see each other's answers and there's a great buzz as everyone fights to write what they want to say.

I originally designed this lesson for use with Nintendo DS machines as part of a Molenet project. By using the chatroom function, each student armed with their own Nintendo DS can read the questions and write in their answer. What they have written is instantly visible to the other students and the results were hilarious and genuine fun for the learners. For more on using the DS for teaching, check out my blog here. You can also visit the Molenet website where they have loads of ideas for students using mobile technology.

For more great powerpoint lessons go to http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/complete_PowerPoint_Lessons.htm

More Complete Lessons Using PowerPoint - Money and Banks

If you can't be bothered to read the post then download the lesson here. http://chrisspeck.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/money-and-banks.ppt

Here's another Complete Lesson Using PowerPoint following on from what the two I've done already, Complete PowerPoint Lesson - Relationships, Complete PowerPoint Lesson - Technology

This time I've gone for Money and Banks. The lesson is aimed at Pre-intermediate to intermediate students and is pretty straightforward to run with the answers already embedded in the files.

You will need a projector or an interactive whiteboard to show the presentation but your students don't need any text books and you don't need any photocopied handouts - watch and follow the instructions for a great lesson. Download the lesson here http://chrisspeck.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/money-and-banks.ppt

You can find more lessons like this and indeed more worksheets and ideas for teaching ESOL/ESL/IELTS and English at my trusty old website http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/complete_PowerPoint_Lessons.htm

Complete Lessons using PowerPoint for IELTS / EFL / ESOL - Valentine's Day and Relationships

Here's the second edition of my complete lessons using only PowerPoint slides. Can't be bothered to read the post? Get the lesson here

http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/powerpoint%20lessons/Relationships.pps



I think this lesson on relationships fits in really nicely with Valentine's Day, especially since the audio features a lady dumping her boyfriend. It's for pre-intermediate learners and should take about an hour. You only need the PowerPoint show above and working speakers to play the audio, students only need a pen and some paper.

Slide 2

Elicit different types of relationship from the class before you show the slide - mother, father etc. Now show the slide, students have to write their own explanation for each word.

Slide 3

Students match the phrasal verbs to the meaning.

Slide 4

Ask and annswer the pre-listening questions as a class before listening to the girl dumping her boyfriend. Students answer the gist question.

Slide 5

Now students listen again and answer the more detailed questions

Slide 6

Students ask and answer these questions in pairs or small groups. You can monitor and give feedback at the end.

Here's the PowerPoint lesson again

http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/powerpoint%20lessons/Relationships.pps

You can find more lessons like this at http://www.englishlanguagespacestation.com/complete_PowerPoint_Lessons.htm

Complete Lessons Using PowerPoint for ESOL /ESL/

      

 

Years ago, I made some simple PowerPoint lessons that cover a range of different vocabulary sets.

They're currently housed on a very old and rusty website but they're free - so please use, change or copy them.

To get the audio working, you have to make the document a 'trusted document' or 'enable macros'.

The only material students need are paper, a pen or a pencil and their voices.

1. Technology PowerPoint Lesson

2. Relationship PowerPoint Lesson

3. Crime PowerPoint Lesson

4. Food and Drink PowrPoint Lesson

5. Giving Advice PowerPoint Lesson

6. Chatting with Friends PowerPoint Lesson

7. Health and Illness PowerPoint Lesson

8. House and Home PowerPoint Lesson

9. Money and Banks PowerPoint Lesson

10. Sport and Keeping Fit PowerPoint Lesson