What to Teach This Week

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How do you keep your learners engaged during the last few weeks of the year? Unwrap the magic of the season with Ellii's ready-made December Holidays collection. This collection includes lessons, stories, flashcards, videos, Ellii Polls, and many other festive activities. 

Did you know that summarizing is one of the top ways to get new information to stick? In a Nutshell is a generic speaking task that you can assign whenever you think your ELs would benefit from summing up something they've learned. To customize the task, simply add a note to your digital assignment in the scheduler. This resource includes an optional pre-task: 3 Reasons for Summarizing. Sentence stems are also available as a reference.

It's that time of year again when dictionaries start analyzing us! After all, the language we choose and use says a lot about how we're doing and where things are in a certain span of time. We hope your students enjoy listening to this Associated Press report about Oxford's Word of the Year. Pair this listening lesson with our paragraph-writing task where students choose their own Word of the Year for 2025!

Are your ELs practicing language for describing places and things? This week's video from The Associated Press contains many magnificent adjectives! Watch the video together before asking your students to describe another Famous Place. Try using our Student Picks feature for this follow-up task. You could also pair this video with our ready-made lesson about Notre Dame. 

In this week's That's News to Me lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read about how the South Korean president briefly imposed martial law. Should Yoon Suk Yeol be impeached? Help your advanced ELs learn academic vocabulary in context with this historic news story.

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