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The 'Preposition poster' has learners visualise different places and movements towards places, thus helping them locate people and actions in English.

The poster does remind of classic -and effective- diagrams from ESL textbooks.

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"The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student's efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject. The printables also can be used with students enrolled in literacy and English-As-Second Language (ESL, ESOL) programs and provide an educational resource for teaching language arts."

This page from kaplaninternational website displays a series of 11 illustrations (infographics that might be used as posters and integrated in EFL lessons) such as the 'Food idioms' previous scoop (see http://sco.lt/88Yxbl ).

Hope just this once won't hurt... This app can only be used on iProducts and won't do on any others -that's mainly why I usually avoid branding such resources. Some of these are real gems though and my soft spot for Shakespeare has got me to share this one with you ;o)

Parodies are an interesting way of working on traditional and classic literary works : school textbooks now have taken over the English teachers' suggestions and the web offers loads of documents that parody various tales. "Little Red Riding Hood" is one of the most commonly studied in France -yet, many others are also worked on...

Very nice post about Little Riding Hood :)

The guy speaks pretty fast  ;D  ...but his speeches are most  articulate and clear which  -besides their social and historical interest-  makes these audio files a good resource to train our EFL-ESL students' ears !

Enjoy :-)

Updated on 26 Feb., 2014

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I've just thought of asking every student to reorder the verbs in this chart (one page only -otherwise they might get lost), according to what they think is their own personal frequency of use. Then, they should create a sentence for the 5 most/least used ones : first they'd choose a topic, so that they might relate the 10 sentences with each other to create a (very) short story. Hmm... hope I'm being plain enough. Shall possibly refine the exercise instructions later on.

Nice verb list organized by frecuency.
http://www.esl-lounge.com/premium/samples/irregular-verbs.pdf

"Wear your heart on your sleeve" and "Fight fire with fire" are part of my favourite ones  :-)

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Why not have your student choose theirs and then write a short paragraph to illustrate them ? Might either help build up a lesson plan or merely get you to... break the ice ;-)

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Also see :

http://sco.lt/4vuskr

Kaplan also created posters illustrating idioms about...

body, animal, money, food, weather and shhh!

More to help you with your English>

Apoio ao Estudo:

http://www.scoop.it/t/apoio-ao-estudo-bibliobeiriz/?tag=Ingl%C3%AAs

E a Brincar Também se Aprende

http://www.scoop.it/t/a-brincar-tambem-se-aprende-bibliobeiriz/?tag=Ingl%C3%AAs

This page from kaplaninternational website displays a series of 11 illustrations (infographics that might be used as posters and integrated in EFL lessons) such as the 'Food idioms' previous scoop (see http://sco.lt/88Yxbl ).

The bbc.co.uk website is a goldmine to ELTeachers : here is a British History timeline, from the HISTORY page.

If you like History or if you are curious about it.