Adults: Elementary 1:
In-Company Classes:
General English: Level 1.1
ALL UNITS
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ELEMENTARY ONLINE ACTIVITIES: Files 1 to 4
AMERICAN
HEADWAY BEGINNER ACTIVITIES
VOCABULARY
WEBLINKS and
ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE UNITS
Unit
1 - Hello
EXERCISES
FOR UNIT 1 LESSON 1: MEETING PEOPLE
WEBLINKS
http://www.teaching.com/keypals/
http://www.iecc.org/
Here are two sites from Teaching.com with the aim of linking
students from around the world. Not only could you send
messages and start to have online conversations with other
learners from around the world, but you could use the simple
messages posted on the guestbook pages to practice basic
personal information and answer questions such as: What’s
his/her name? Where do they come from? How old is he/she? etc
Unit
2 – People & Places
http://photojapan.com/index.htm/occupations.html
A Japanese site with pictures of around 15 occupations. Use the
pictures to practise questions like: What does s/he do?
Where does s/he work? What’s his/her job?
http://stats.bls.gov/k12/html/edu_over.htm
This site takes a look at which jobs are suitable from the
starting point of school interests. Ask your students what
subjects they enjoy most (and possibly the ones they enjoy
least). Then ask them what job they would like, or what job they
have (you could brainstorm different kinds of jobs and what
people do in those jobs). Finally, get them to click on the
relevant icons to bring up jobs that are linked to favorite
subjects and see if they agree. The site also includes very
detailed texts but these are probably too difficult for this
level.
http://geography.about.com/science/geography/cs/countryfacts/index.htm
If your students enjoyed the geography game on pages 20 and 21
why not get them to create their own. This site is a link to
lots of other sites containing all kinds of information and
facts about the world. Put them in small groups, give them the
site address and let them get on with it.
Unit
3 – Think Green
http://www.greenpeace.org/
http://www.panda.org/
The title of the unit is "Think Green." Start by
brainstorming "Green" issues and then get your
students to click on these sites and see if they can find the
same issues as they listed.
http://www.ecotourism.org/travelchoice/index.htm
Not only does this site contain lots of information about what
ecotourism is, but it also has lots of links to companies who
provide eco-vacations. After your students have finished pages
30 and 31 ask them to plan a real eco-tour. Tell them to choose
the type of activities they would most like to do (some ideas
are given in the first exercise on page 30) and then ask them to
find the most suitable tour for them. Although their language
level may be low, many of the pages accessed through this site
contain pictures.
Have a
look at some great pictures on:
http://www.ecotourism-adventure.com
Here is
another site with lots of pictures and information:
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/
Unit
4 - Impressions
http://www.yahooligans.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Actors_and_Actresses/Actor_Actress_Pictures/
Choose a few actors and actresses that you think your students
will know, print out the pictures and use for a variety of
activities, e.g. 1) Each student picks a picture and then tries
to describe the person (starting off with physical description)
and the other student(s) try to guess who is being described. 2)
Choose a picture, cover most of it then slowly uncover it,
revealing more of the person. Students try and guess who it is.
This activity works well as a team quiz.
http://www.astrology-online.com/about.htm
In Lesson 4 of the unit the focus shifts onto the topic of
astrology and the signs of the zodiac. This site is both
informative and easy to navigate around. Find out the dates for
each sign, the characteristics and weekly horoscopes. Then link
the whole lesson back to the earlier focus of famous people by
finding out when they were born and which sign of the zodiac
they were born under. Get your students to find someone who was
born under the same sign that they were and see if they think
they are like them.
Unit
5 – House & Home
http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/
An online quiz that asks you to choose your favorite color and
then tells you what that says about you – interesting if a
little difficult in terms of the vocabulary. The site also
contains a computer generated decorating facility, as does http://www.dulux.com
where you can click on a room and then decide on the color
scheme. Pair the students up and get them to discuss the choices
– by doing this they should have plenty of opportunities to
use both sets of lexical items from this unit.
http://www.elite.net/~runner/eld/eld1vhouse.htm#3
One of the main topics in this unit is furniture. This web page
contains lots of information on this topic. It will help your
students consolidate, as well as expand, what they learn from
the book.
Unit
6 – Work & Leisure
http://www.esl-lab.com/time.htm
An online listening quiz that compliments the listening
activities on page 52. If your students need more practice in
listening comprehension, especially of tricky differences such
as 4:15 and 4:50, this site would be useful. It does require
speakers and a "real player" that can be downloaded
free from the Internet.
Another
option is to give a small quiz to your students. Choose 5 places
from around the world, e.g. Calcutta, Dallas, Paris, Sydney and
Moscow. Then ask your students to find out what time it is in
each place by using the international time zones from http://www.worldtimeserver.com/.
They will need to click on major cities in order to carry
out the task.
http://www.esl-lab.com/elem/elemrd1.htm
A listening activity which can be used to practice both daily
routines and adverbs of frequency.
You will need Real Player (which you can download from the
Internet) to do this activity.
http://www.girlslife.com/alexn.html
This site contains an interview with Alexandra Nechita. After
your students have done the reading on page 54 put them into
pairs and ask them to write 3 questions they would like to ask
Alexandra about her painting. Then get them to look at this
website and see if they can find the answers to their questions.
Finally, if they would like to see some of the paintings by
Alexandra get them to check out the online gallery at http://www.piersidegallery.com/
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