Wild Animal Trivia

Wild Animal Trivia

Learn some interesting and unusual facts whilst doing a reading and listening comprehension.  The resource is from the British Council Learn English website and has a gapfill activity to assess your understanding of the material you have studied.

Animal Conservation

Animal Conservation

British Council reading text on animal conservation with a gapfill exercise (insert the word that best makes sense) to assess your understanding of what you have read.  There is also an exercise on finding opposites.

Endangered Animals Powerpoint Presentation

Endangered Animals Powerpoint Presentation

A very good presentation to get you familiar with animals that are endangered and why.  The geographical vocabulary of habitats and other scientific terminology is developed well. Research other endangered speicies by all means and if you like use the template on the TEFLGlobal ResourcesCommunicativePage to present your work. 

Please note - some of the questions at the end don't really make a lot of sense so don't worry about them!

Describing Animals

Describing Animals

More detail is provided in the vocabulary of this Powerpoint Presentation.  It labels body parts and will allow you to give more informed descriptions of wild animals.

For example:- a giraffe has an extremely long neck and four long legs.  It is therefore very tall approximately the same height of a tree. It has two horns and eyes that are positioned wide apart.

What Are The Wild Animals Doing?

What Are The Wild Animals Doing?

A Powerpoint Presentation on Safari in South Africa, Tanzania or Kenya.  The resource includes sentences in the Present Continuous Tense and at the end useful vocabulary is formed using phonetic symbols to help with pronunciation.

Unusual Big Cat Fights

From the Big Cat Reserve, 

Kruger National Park, South Africa

5 short and unusual clips of lion battles in the Big Cat Reserve of the Kruger National Park.  Watch the videos they are interesting in themselves. If you like write a simple report (a few sentences) about each one or describe the scene to a friend or colleague in English.

You can then go onto do some of your own research on the internet. There is a template to use if you would like to assemble your findings in a fact sheet.

Go to TEFL Global Resources Communication Activities

ESL Quiz - Opposites (Noreen Artar) I-TESL-J

ESL Quiz - Opposites (Noreen Artar) I-TESL-J

An Intermediate Vocabulary Quiz on Opposites

ENGLISH PAGE - Look + Prepositions

ENGLISH PAGE - Look + Prepositions

An excellent exercise to follow directly on from the podcast.  Simply insert the preposition that makes the sentence make sense in this gapfill activity.

Verbs & Prepositions

Verbs & Prepositions

A simple exercise using prepositions such as on, of, with etc. Suitable for Pre-Intermediate students. Insert the correct preposition in the sentence.

phrasal verbs

phrasal verbs

The information in the article explain two part verbs.  They consist of a verb and a preposition or particle.  In the elementary podcast this week different prepositions were used with the verb 'look'.

For example:-
look at - keeps the meaning of look as the same
look for - changes the meaning of look to 'find' or 'search'
look after - changes the meaning to 'care'

There is an exercise to do to test your knowledge of the phrasal verbs once you have read through the information in the article.

A Video Report on a School for Deaf Students in Jordan

The Holyland Institute for the Deaf 

by Brother Andrew de Carpetier

http://explore.org/#!/videos/player/talking-hands

Consider the quote:

“Blindness separates you from things, deafness separates you from people”

Watch the video at:

http://explore.org/videos/player/talking-hands#ooid=M0eGtwMjodmIgS8m7aNbO8ISkj5ffUuR

Practise listening, reading, speaking and writing skills at:- 
TEFL Global Resources Communicative Page 

I would suggest this TEFL Global Resource is suitable for Upper Intermediate/Advanced TEFL students. 

Parts of Clothing

Parts of Clothing

More clothing vocabulary from http://www.eslgold.com/vocabulary/parts_clothing.html 
with parts of clothes explained.  

For example - the collar of a shirt, the sleeve of a shirt