A selection of English ESL text messages ppt slides

This is a PowerPoint where students-



read text messages and answer questions 

write text messages on their phones 



For students who don't have phones have a text message paper template at hand for them to write on 



Please, as always check for spelling mistakes before using 

reading and writing a text message


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

Funny lesson about modern texting abbreviations. Designed mostly for teenagers, as they might be most interested in the topic. Enjoy :) I also uploaded worksheet for students. 

texting

A presentation about reported speech. It contains the main rules and explains changes that take place in Reported Speech. There are examples and various exercises. (Transformations, gap filling, comic stripes, text messages). Enjoy!

Reported Speech 

It's a writing activity where students have to write text messages to his or her best friends in order to describe her or his birthday party. She or he has to describe who was at the party, decorations, food and drinks, clothes and presents. 

your birthday party

I had a problem uploading "listening comprehension 2" because it was too heavy.  If anyone wants it just send me a message. In the sam way as the first you will hear two short texts – listen and answer the questions – you will hear the texts again to check your questions and a third time with the texts. It is also on video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57iANDb8z-w



LISTENING COMPREHENSION 3

Think Tales: Tiddalick the Frog is a material that can be used to help students to examine and investigate the context and meaning of an Australian indigenous story "Tiddalick the Frog" through six aspects: character, setting, problem, solution, message and question. This also aims to encourage students to share their own stories. This material was designed by Sirhajwan Idek and it is also available in ESL Printables.

Think Tales: Tiddalick the Frog

To develop learners’ ability to read different texts 

and extract key information

• To learn new vocabulary (full, spaces, assessment, diary), including everyday

activities with the verb ‘go’ (e.g. go swimming)

• To practise reading days of the week.

Introduction

This lesson develops learners’ reading skills of two different types of text: a text message and

a diary page. Ravinder receives a text message about starting an English course and

learners read his text and his diary in order to decide which course he is able to attend.

Learners will identify the main idea of the text message and then read the message and the

diary to extract specific information.

You will

MESSAGES BY BOUGHERARA ZINEB 

A comprehensive presentation about emojis and their benefits and drawbacks. There's a warm-up game at the beginning, a reading comprehension section, and a vocabulary section based on the text. Then, there's a speaking section with another activity.

Emojis: Yay or Nay? :) (lesson material)

Just to discuss the most popular way of communication, it can be used in online or offline classes with different age, especially with teens. You can add your materials easily into this presentation.

Speaking topic for elementary and pre-intermediate level students

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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