A selection of English ESL ppt slides with cross-cultural communication

In this PPT game Ss will listen to the sounds of different farm animals and guess their names. Click on the slide to get the correct answer. The PPT is  made both for preschool children and beginners.

Guess the Animal Sounds

Travel around the world and learn about 21 famous landmarks. Then take the quiz. Can you identify the landmarks, where located, and describe them. Animated and with music. 





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21 Famous Landmarks PPT

This PowerPoint Jeopardy game lets students have fun while examining Christmas and winter activities in Japan and around the world. The questions look at winter sports, cultural activities in Japan, clothes, weather, and Santa Claus. The 100-500 questions are hyperlinked as well as the answers giving them a chance to return and try again.

Christmas Jeopardy

Students will learn how to tell the time in English with a lot of examples. For A1 to B2 students. We focus on the most difficult way. It was prepared for Portuguese speakers, but only English is used.

Telling the time

Here you can find some internet slang words or abbreviations, used in sms or e-mails. Examples and decoded variants with pictures are included. In the end there are some tasks and a link to resource for the homework

Internet Slang Words

Comes with four useful role plays for adult ESL learners, for example giving directions or meeting a new coworker. Each scenario has several useful phrases to use. The lesson ends with a wrap-up where the student recalls a new word or phrase for the class.

A2-B1 Adult ESL Role Plays

A trivia quiz themed on Halloween meant for teenagers and adults with 4 parts: Trick or Treat, Pop Culture, The Horrors of Reading, and Let's Get Spooky. The activity is to have the students guess the correct answer to the questions and keep track of their points to see who knows the most about Halloween. 

Ultimate Halloween Trivia Game

This is a powerpoint presenting common idioms used in business, their meanings, example sentences and pictures; no activities- just presenting the information; could be used for any idioms lesson with adult students.

Business english idioms

An interesting game that teaches about how christmas is celebrated in different cultures. Students must guess if these unusual christmas traditions from various countries are true or false. They must also guess which country the tradition belongs to. If you have time, it would be fun to explain how the tradition came about or why they do it.

Unusual Christmas Traditions Game


Lesson Title: Telephone English Phrases

Lesson Description:
The "Telephone English Phrases" lesson is designed to equip learners with essential vocabulary, expressions, and techniques for effective communication in English over the phone. In today's globalized world, telephone conversations play a crucial role in various professional and personal contexts. This lesson aims to boost learners' confidence and fluency when engaging in telephone conversations, enabling them to convey their messages clearly and understand their interlocutors effectively.
Throughout the lesson, learners will be introduced to a wide range of practical telephone English phrases, which will help them navigate common scenarios encountered during phone calls. They will learn how to greet callers, introduce themselves, and engage in polite and professional small talk. Additionally, learners will acquire techniques for handling different types of phone calls, such as making inquiries, providing information, taking messages, and dealing with complaints.
The lesson will include interactive activities and role-play exercises to provide learners with ample opportunities to practice their telephone English skills. These activities will simulate realistic phone conversations, allowing learners to apply the newly acquired vocabulary and phrases in a meaningful context. Moreover, learners will receive constructive feedback and guidance to enhance their telephone communication abilities.
By the end of the lesson, learners can expect to have improved their overall telephone English proficiency, including listening comprehension, speaking fluency, and confidence in handling different phone call situations. Whether for professional purposes or personal interactions, this lesson will empower learners to communicate effectively and professionally over the phone in English.

Telephone English Phrases

A functions lesson about "Making and Responding to Complaints". It provides authentic situations for students to practice and use the target exponents in a role play activity.

Expressing Complaints

Speaking and vocabulary power point for students to learn about world culture, talk about taboos, customs and celebrations in their country and give advice for a tourist.

WORLD CULTURE, TABOOS CUSTOMS AND CELEBRATIONS

Cross-cultural communication

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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how to accuse somebody of something in English

how to apologize, say sorry, forgive and express regret in English

how to ask for information and make inquiries in English

how to ask for something, make requests in English

how to blame somebody for something in English

how to defend yourself from criticism in English

how to deny or admit something in English

how to describe things or people in English

how to emphasize important things in English

how to encourage or discourage people in English

how to evaluate people or progress in English

how to express agreement /disagreement in English

how to express approval and disapproval  in English

how to express cause and effect in English

how to express interest in something in English

how to express likelihood, probability in English

how to express likes and dislikes in English

how to express sequence and chronology in English

how to express shock and disbelief in English

how to express sympathy and condolences in English

how to give permission, authorization in English

how to inform somebody about some news in English

how to interpret what was said in English

how to keep a conversation going in English

how to make guesses about something in English

how to make, accept and refuse offers in English

how to order or make a booking in English

how to persuade, convince people in English

how to praise people and express appreciation in English

how to reassure somebody of something in English

how to refuse and object to something in English

how to remind people of something in English

how to rephrase, paraphrase what was said in English

how to say thank you, express gratitude in English

Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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133 Cross-cultural communication English ESL powerpoints