Grammar & Vocabulary Activities
ESL 0650
Intensive English Program
Georgia State University
Bado Ourega

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Activities
Link to the Activitiy   Information about the activity
1. Academic Verbs   Based on the reading "The Great Catharsis Debate," this fill-in-the-blank activity gives you a chance to practice use of verbs in academic writing.
2.Academic verbs    Information connected with the activity
On the basis of the input entitled," OF FROZEN MILK AND BISON HERDS."You need to practice this activity as it enables you to become familiar with verbs used in academic writing.
3.Causes     Information for causal chains expression
On the basis of a paragraph from ,"Of frozen milk and Bison Herds" you are requested to practice this vital skill for academic writingting: Cause and consequences.
4.Verb+prepositions   This exercise will help students practise the use of Verb+preposition that is so vital due to its high frequency in academic writing. 
5.Cause and Result   In this matching exercise, students will practice how to link causes and results.This type of activity provides learners with a chance to practice  sequencing, that is vital to academic writing. 
6.Relative Clauses   The students will have to locate the right form of the relative clauses.
7.Climate Shifts   In this  Short-answer quiz, students will learn about analyzing factors that may bring about a climate change.
8. Verbs that Link Causes and Results     Learners will have a chance to identify the verbs that make the link with  causes and the subsequent results. 
9.Writing an analysis    The  interest of the activity,"Hiring graduate students" lies in the fact that it intends to teach students how to analyze issues to better understanding and finding adequate solutions
10.Explaining and analyzing   In this  Short-answer quiz, students will learn about analyzing factors that may bring about a climate change.
11.Organizing paragraphs to explain climate changes   In this matching exercise, students will practice how to link causes and results.This type of activity provides learners with a chance to practice  sequencing, that is vital to academic writing. 
12.Multiple choice activity    In this Multiple Choice Questions, you will practice how to identify and use accurately some verbs or verb phrases that link causes and results.
13.Crosswords#1   This activity will enable students to become familiar with the lexical items requested for the description of the climate issues. They do need this type of vocabulary to grasp the meaning of this technical topic. 
14.Crosswords#2    This activity is designed to consolidate the learners'control of climatology technical terms. They will use them to read the text entitled,"Of frozen milk and Bison Herds." It is about the different climatic changes, their causes and results/ effects.The students will use the words as a spring board to write a similar climatic history with stress on the causes and consequences.
15.Matching causes with results    The objective of this activity is to develop the learners' sense of logic. Using their metacognitive skills, they will  determine which result sentence corresponds best to the one about the cause.
16.Verb tense shifts  On the basis of "OF FROZEN MILK AND BISON HERDS" students learn how to operate for tense shifts to state a theory, describe a past or current event,etc.in causes analysis. 
     

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