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**LESSON PLANNING AND TEACHING** //Materials// 

Together with my course-mate, I created the following six lessons and materials for my final TESL Practicum course. These lessons consistently use TESL methods, approaches, and strategies. The focus of our course was teaching speaking and listening skills to post-secondary ELLs with a focus on figurative language. Figurative language is challenging even for advanced ELLs because of the multiple meanings that can be derived from it. Our final lessons included activities related to American culture, such as Halloween and Thanksgiving, because our students requested it.

The materials were either created by and/or borrowed or modified from free resources on the Internet. Many of the materials are in full color and require that students physically interact with them. The colorful images provide a rich context to help students learn new words and concepts, and requiring physical interaction has also been shown to increase student retention of information.

 ** Idioms Lesson Plan **

Materials: Idioms Illustrated, Idioms Explained


 * Body Language & Idioms Lesson Plan **

Materials: Idioms in Context-Sample Dialogue, Body Language, Bingo-Find Someone Who

**Phrasal Verbs Lesson Plan**

Materials: Practice with Phrasal Verbs-Student Copy, Practice with Phrasal Verbs-Answer Key, Practice with Phrasal Verbs-Matching

**Proverbs Lesson Plan**

Materials: Proverbs Matching Exercise, Phrasal Verbs-Repetition-Transformation Drills, Illustrated Proverbs, Idioms vs Proverbs

**Halloween Lesson Plan**

Materials: Halloween Bingo, Halloween Vocabulary

**Thanksgiving Lesson Plan**

Materials: Thanksgiving Photos, Thanksgiving Story, Thanksgiving Story Comprehension Questions, Thanksgiving Story Comprehension Questions-Answers