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ESL, EFL, ESOL Lessons: Blog, Feet & Romance
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What do feet have to do with romance and your ESL, EFL, ESOL lesson plans?
- Paws, Feet, Footwear and Romance
Well, if you want a lot ! and it’s easy to combine them with the help of blogs!
Reviewing and Expanding ESL, EFL ESOL Foot and Footwear Language with blogs!
Here’s a great blog, Your Chance For Romance that you can integrate into your English language lesson plan and review language for:
- the parts of the body
- foot-related language and feet problems
- the suffix “-wear” and its various collocations
- as well as strong adjectives vs regular adjectives and their intensifiers
and give your ESL, EFL, ESOL students an enjoyable lesson.
Here’s the website and blog article: The Most Romantic Footwear Is…..
An ESL, EFL, ESOL Lesson Plan with Romantic Feet Language!
I used this blog article with intermediate/upper-intermediate adult ESL, EFL, ESOL students.
- I started by asking them to tell me what they thought of as being romantic.
- Then I asked them if they ever thought of their feet as being romantic.
- Then I reviewed with them 8 words or terms that I knew could be new for them:
- fashion spreads
- the state of Minnesota and where its located
- the 2 meanings of heel, as well as high heels
- grimace
- calves – in relation to the legs and the animals
- bunions, blisters and other foot-related problems
- hideous, and reviewed other strong adjectives and their intensifiers
- boomer and boomer age
- rhinestones and trim
- bare and its other collocations
My busy young university adults and business people found this blog post enjoyable and we had great discussions about what they considered romantic, their feet, their footwear and local customs.
Ah, one question to the author, Sonya…. the women want to know if some or all handbags could be considered romantic?
Enjoy teaching English!
Eileen
ESL, EFL, ESOL Lesson: Does Liberty fit into your lesson plan?
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ESL, EFL, ESOL teachers live in the reality of their students’ everyday lives. With our students we rejoice when there’s a holiday – just as much as they do – especially if it’s a beautiful spring day!
Liberation Day!
April 25 is one of those special days! Today we recall how precious the gift of
British POWs near Nettuno, south of Rome, 1944
freedom is: 2o1o makes the 65th anniversary of the overthrow of the Mussolini government and the beginning of the fall of the Nazi regime in Italy. Today we remember all those who fought, suffered and died for the liberation of Italy from tyranny.
As the President of the Republic laid the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, The Altar of the Country, at Piazza Venezia in the heart of ancient Rome this morning, we remembered all the victims of that horrible occupation and war: the foreign soldiers who sacrificed their mind, bodies and lives that the Italian people might be free, the Italian Resistance movement, the many civilian deaths, victims of atrocities, friendly-fire and bombings.
World War II – Echoes in Everyday Life
The Ardeatine Cave, Rome
But World War II is not just a memory in a history book – the scars of that bloody war are still with us: every year many unexploded ordinances are still being unearthed; whole sections of cities have to be evacuated as the deadly bombs are diffused and removed. And here in Rome and its environs we have the sharpnel walls of the buildings on Via Rasella, the Ardeatine Caves where the horrific massacre ordered by Hilter of 335 Italians was carried out in 1944 and many military cemetaries to remind us of the horror of aggression and war – and the cost of our freedom.
ESL, EFL, ESOL Lessons Bringing in History with Social Media
For an EFL/ESOL teacher days like April 25 are an opportunity to bring in photos, film footage, old press releases of the BBC and BBC radio broadcasts - all of which are available for free online.
On YouTube there are several videos of actual footage from the WWII period that bring those past events to life again and commemorate the value of freedom.
Here is one with US General Mark Clark who explains the hardships of the Italian campaign and dedicates a documentary by John Huston to the memory of all those who fought for freedom.
For classroom discussions, teachers can talk with their ESL, EFL, ESOL students about their families’ memories of these events and the value of freedom. They can write in their e-notebooks or publicly blog about those family stories and the liberties that they are now enjoying.
In our modern consumeristic world, we have perhaps gotten a bit soft. We take the freedoms we have for granted…. we forget the liberties we now enjoy were bought at a horrific price: the lives of thousands of people who sacrificed what was most precious - their lives - so that we may be free.
And you, my reader - what days do you want to remember and thank those who sacrificed their lives that we might be free?
Happy Liberation Day to all – may we also prize and protect our freedoms from any tyrant….
Eileen
Ear and Eye Candy In The English Language
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Today I’m not going to focus on strictly ESL or EFL lesson material. No, I think you need a break. Ok, we will be using one of the social media, but I think you’ll enjoy the wonderful way this video helps us relate to our language. So let’s take 5 and go see one of my favorite YouTube videos.
Oh, yes, I have shown it to my more advanced ESL/EFL students. I wanted them to feast on the beauty of English.
The voice actor is excellent; he seems to give life and breath to the very words. And the graphics – the graphic designer was fantastic. I love the way they took the words and played with them as if they were in a sandbox – and in a certain sense they were !
Their sandbox, as ours, is our fantastic language. It allows us to take the 26 letters, about 42 sounds and the vast heritage we have received from our past. With this wealth we then create, share and hand on to coming generations our thoughts, hopes, experiences, lives… expressed in words, sounds and images.
This is the English language that ESL/EFL/ESOL teachers strive to hand on to those they teach.
Take a break and feast your eyes and ears on English!
