Technology/Gadget/ Device/Object Lesson Ideas/Plans for ESL Teachers

Interview questions  about use of  & opinions re technology (PDF)

Technology questionnaire/worksheet (PDF)

Students  describe and classify past and present communications inventions

Technology: a blessing or a  curse lesson

Technology lesson plan including
technology survey worksheet (PDF)

Read about the Inventors and Inventions on the following pages.You are to invent a machine (PDF)

ESL Conversation questions re technology

Keep your English up to date: BBC ESL lesson about the Internet and IT


ESL Lesson & worksheet for students:  The Cell Phone Age

Mobile Phones:ESL lesson & worksheets for teachers & students

A car that runs on air: esl lesson & worksheets for teachers and students


Gadgets/Inventions Resources

Lesson Plan: Simple Machine WebQuest

Readings and audio files about technological inventions

Articles about famous inventions

Clip art things

Welcome to How Stuff Works!

Smithsonian science & technology  lessons

Teaching about The Internet for
ESL & Literacy Education

Vocabulary exercises for internet, email and digital cameras

Internet vocabulary test

Internet Lesson Plan for ESL students

Describing Items/Things/Objects

Personal possessions lesson: Purpose:
To describe items using a variety of verb tenses, adjectives, and other language; to practice asking
and answering Wh- questions

Describing objects

Everyday Objects Come to Life Lesson idea

Conversing with an Object

Business News English Lessons for ESL

Breakingnewsenglish.com technology related news lessons for English language teachers
Other Ideas for Teaching about
Technology

Dramatic fool object roleplay

Mimimg an object (dramateaching idea

Anything fabric: creative drama teaching idea

Photographic Memory: teaching for remembering objects, vocab

Memory game

Adult learning activities:technology readings


Teaching Ideas for Giving Instructions

Technology-writing instructions for a microwave

Giving instructions vocabulary