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

Computers & the Internet: worksheet with
pictures & vocabulary (PDF)

Matching exercise: home appliances (PDF)

What are they made of ? basic matching of materials , objects & pictures worksheet (PDF)

Useful things vocabulary , pictures & questions (PDF)

Describing shapes worksheet (PDF)

ESL worksheet for talking about products,
machines and appliances-with pictures (PDF)

Best inventions of the past hundred years
worksheet-with pictures (PDF)

Object and uses for work and study -with
pictures(PDF)

Phrasal verbs for technology (PDF)

Computer system vocabulary worksheet (PDF)

Questions about internet for ESL students (PDF)

Intermediate worksheets for innovations (PDF)

Other Ideas for Teaching about
Technology

Information and  communications technology
test (PDF)

Dramatic fool object roleplay

Anything fabric: creative drama teaching idea




Photographic Memory: teaching for remembering objects, vocab

Memory game

Adult learning activities:technology readings

Gadgets/Inventions Resources

Lesson Plan: Simple Machine WebQuest

Readings and audio files about technological inventions

Articles about famous inventions

Welcome to How Stuff Works!

Smithsonian science & technology  lessons

Technology lessons/worksheets

Technology use survey for the classroom (PDF)

Technology survey (PDF)

Technology questionnaire/worksheet (PDF)

ESL lesson about innovation (PDF)

Technology: a blessing or a  curse lesson

Worksheet – Computer Applications & Social Impacts

Technology lesson plan including
technology survey worksheet (PDF)

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

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

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

Very advanced vocabulary exercises for understanding cameras

Describing Items/Things/Objects

A luxury I do not want to do without speaking
exercise - see p.4 & 6 (PDF)

School objects worksheets (PDF)

Office objects, gadgets, devices activity (PDF)

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

Everyday Objects Come to Life Lesson idea

Conversing with an Object

Teaching Ideas for Giving Instructions

Technology-writing instructions for a microwave

Giving instructions vocabulary

Teaching about The Internet for
ESL & Literacy Education

Internet vocabulary test

Internet Lesson Plan for ESL students