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How to lead a discussion (list)

Free reading excepts on a variety of topics, organized by lexical level and accompanied by questions, discussions, and teacher activities. Probably best for Level 5 / Level 6 / advanced students

Free reading excepts on a variety of topics, organized by lexical level and accompanied by questions, discussions, and teacher activities. Probably best for Level 5 / Level 6 / advanced students

How to maintain a classroom discussion

Short TESOL article about increasing student talk time in your classrooms

Ideas to promote student talk in class discussions

Ideas to promote student talk in class discussions

Really liked this extremely simple diagram about the difference between information and knowledge. It could be a good starting point for class discussion, especially if linked into reading (as a example of what students should be doing when they're reading)

Sentence stems which students can use to help structure presentations, agreeing, disagreeing, etc.

A large variety of short videos to provoke discussion or debate on controversial topics. Good resources for Levels 5 & 6. Take a look! "How Islam Began -- in Under 10 Minutes" could be a interesting view.

Really interesting website for teachers and students. From their "About" section: "This site aims to provide students and teachers with information and ideas to assist them apply the Habits of Mind. Each of the sixteen habits is presented along with information on when to use each habit and strategies to make the process easy. Each page includes a short video that demonstrates the Habit of Mind and could be used as a starting point for discussion."

These could be used to spark a lot of discussion using comparatives and superlatives...plus probably just conversation in general!

A really nice listening site with animated, captioned true stories. For native speakers, but the animation and the captions help enormously with understanding the pictures.

Sundays at Roccos was a moving story for a cartoon about an immigrant family from Italy that makes it in the US only to (you have to see it for the rest). I think this is a high Level 3 and up listening material that will generate a lot of discussion from interesting and animated stories

This series of drawings struck me as something that might be useful to spawn conversation. Some Drawings are more controversial than others, but several hit on topics that I think some classes are already discussing, especially the upper levels.