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Using the Whole Brain There are many ways to learn a language as there many types of understanding. You can understand something musically, visually or intellectually, as well as emotionally or even through smell. This Mind Map reading comprehension lesson provides a number of exercise to help students use this visual technique for longer reads. Read more

Describing a Scene The cowboy is riding into the sunset. He fought crime and caught bandits, as well as found love. He's going to become the sheriff in Dodge... The description above takes the final scene of a movie as the point of departure to write a description using a wide variety of tenses. Use this final scene lesson plan to help students develop stories based on sketches they make of movies they love. Other options include creating soap operas in class, or writing and acting out a script from a favorite movie. Read more Search Related Topics: lesson on films conversation lesson plans esl teaching techniques

Three Uses of "What are you doing?" The present continuous tense - for example, I am writing a blog post. - is used in three situations. The first is to express what is happening at the moment of speaking: The second to express what is happening around the time of speaking. In other words, the present continuous can express current projects. Finally, the present continuous may also express a future scheduled event such as a meeting. Learn more about tenses uses the visual guide to tenses.

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