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Many of these lessons contain links to Word files, including student handouts and step-by-step instructions. Adding Adjectives and Adverbs For intermediate students. Students open a copy of a simple story and add adjectives and adverbs to it. More advanced students add other details. Buying Furniture On Line For beginning students. Search for a piece of furniture on Yahoo Shopping fill out a chart with the name of the furniture, the price and the vendor's name. Buying Furniture For very beginning students. Students draw a floor plan in groups and then "buy" a piece of furniture and place it in the correct room. Here's lesson plan and here's the student handout. California DMV--buying a car. This worksheet was created by Susanna Levitt. Students navigate the California DMV website to find information about transferring car ownership. For intermediate and above. California DMV--getting a license. This worksheet was created by Susanna Levitt. Students navigate the California DMV website to find information about getting a license. For intermediate and above. Crossword puzzle plan This lesson is for creating crossoword puzzles on line. With higher levels, it can be used as an adjective clause lesson. With lower levels, it can be used with simple present definitions. Dream House Lesson Students copy a picture of a house they like from the Google images bank, and write a paragraph describing their dream house. Family picture lesson plan 1 This lesson plan is meant for high-intermediate students who have been studying adjective clauses. Describe a picture using adjective clauses, scan and insert a picture of your family. There are links to the basic computer instructions (which also appear below). Family picture lesson plan 2 For beginning students. This plan, like the previous one, involves scanning a picture and inserting it above a composition. Students describe what their friends/family are wearing in a picture. There are links to practice handouts and computer instructions. Famous Person from the Past For Intermediate and above. Use the internet to research a famous person. Write about the person and insert a picture of them from the internet. Greeting cards For beginning to advanced students. Lesson plan and student instructions for using mycardmaker.com. Grocery shopping For beginning students. Students "buy" $50 worth of groceries at netgrocer.com & then ask & answer questions about what they bought. Huntington Library This worksheet was created by Yoshimi Sufall. Students visit the Huntington Library Internet site and fill in information as they go. Jobs on the Internet Students look up information about jobs at the Department of Labor website. Then they look for jobs at Yahoo! HotJobs and Monster.com. Research Universities These worksheets were created by Susanna Levitt and Kathy Johnston. Students find information on the Internet about Cerritos City College, Cal State Long Beach, and UC Irvine. There is also a student handout. Research the ABC School District Website For Beginning High and above. Student handout contains questions for students to answer. Here's a Beginning Low version. Shopping for clothes. For Beginning Low to Intermediate Low. Students "buy" $500 worth of clothes at Macys.com and then ask & answer questions about what they bought. Student picture story This isn't a lesson plan--it's a student handout explaining how to retrieve a photo and insert it in into a Word document. Here are steps for taking and downloading the picture. Thanksgiving For Intermediate Low and above. Students learn about Thanksgiving online and then take a test. Created by Susanna Levitt. Washington For Intermediate and above. Students visit Washington's birthplace and Mt. Vernon, then compare the two places. Created by Susanna Levitt. Weather lesson For beginning low-high. Students find the weather for two cities on Yahoo! and then do an information-gap activity to share the information. White House Lesson This lesson is for low-intermediate or higher students. It was created by Susanna Levitt. Students go to the White House site, choose a picture of one room in the White House and describe what they see. These are Word files that give instructions for basic processes on the computer. You can download them and adapt them for your class or lesson. Unless otherwise noted, these files are meant for student use or for putting on the OHP. Drawing Tools shows how to wrap text, crop, and resize a picture. Saving shows how to save files to a floppy. Insert picture shows how to insert a picture in a Word file. Download picture explains how to download pictures from the camera (for teachers). Capture a picture from Google is a student handout (low level) showing how to find and print an image from Google Copy to thawspace explains how to copy student files to the thawspace (for teachers). Change font/size shows how to change font and font size in a Word document. Center + size shows how to center and re-size a picture. Bigger story shows how to increase font size. (Written for beginning students.) Open Word lists instructions for opening Word (for the OHP). Here are sites with ideas for using the digital camera in class. They are meant for children, but some of them could be adapted for the adult class. http://coekate.murraystate.edu/camera/ideas.htm http://www.kodak.com/global/en/consumer/education/lessonPlans/indices/languageArts.shtml http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/qvuses.htm
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