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Ideas for language learners and teachers

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Lesson plans

Learner-Friendly Corpora

Using images from www.amazon.com

link-icon_pdf_05.png how-to-books.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png can-and-could-dvd-titles.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png S.A.N.E.books.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png couldve-shouldve-wouldve.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
Remind and remember

Using search engines

link-icon_pdf_05.png using-search-engines-to-complete-sentences.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)

Using quotations sites

link-icon_pdf_05.png second-conditional-quotations.pdf (Accompanying post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png coulda-shoulda-woulda-quotations.pdf (Accompanying post here)

Using YouTube as a musical corpus

‘Going to’ versus gonna: song hangman

Using online newspapers

Hyperlinked headlines

Student drawing activities

link-icon_pdf_05.png tyrannosaurus-rex-joke.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png grammar-flashcards-1.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png grammar-flashcards-2.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)

Art and images

link-icon_pdf_05.png dr-gachet.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png bear-story.pd (Accompanying post here)

Grammar activities

The Blue Whale cloud game
link-icon_pdf_05.png blue-whale-jumbled-sentences.pdf(Accompanying blog post here)
A love poem
link-icon_pdf_05.png 15-things-to-do-before-you-die.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)
link-icon_pdf_05.png men-with-big-hats.pdf (Accompanying blog post here)