OBJECTIVE: To motivate students to set their own goals for the week. This worksheet helps students find their passions about why they are learning English. Send your suggestions for other activities.

Plan for EXTRA WORK this week ______ (date) Name: _____________________
My GOAL this week:

Speaking
__ Telephone skills
__ Conversation (small talk)
__ Describe a city
__ Complain
__ Ask for directions
__ Give directions (with N, S, E, W)
__ Give directions (“go to the post office, it’s on the right, next to a 24-hour restaurant called the Floridian”)
__ Give tips to a new student (tell the person about something you learned recently that you find interesting)
__ Ask another student for an email address or account name on a social network
__ Ask a Korean about Cyworld. Ask a Thai guy about Hi5. Ask a Brazilian about Orkut. Ask a European about Facebook (or______).
__ Recommend a cause or an application or a community (Orkut) to the teacher and to another student
__ Call the teacher and give a tip or ask for a tip
__ Find a photo and talk about it to the class or to another student
__ Your idea: ___________________

Grammar
__ Find a difficult part of grammar and learn the rule (or try a TOEFL grammar test)
__ Teach the rule to the class
__ Explain the use of punctuation
___ Your idea: __________________
__ Look at a grammar web site

Vocabulary
New Words:

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Confusing Words
Example: quit, quiet, quite

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__ Find a family of words and teach them to the class (tree, huma body, cow parts, car, tools, office items, parts of a hospital)

Writing: SteveEnglishTeacher@hotmail.com
__ Write a letter to the editor and complain (then offer a suggestion to fix the problem)
__ Write a letter to Obama and make a suggestion
__ Write an article (your idea) ________
__ Write a composition (describe your city, tell me about a problem, describe a museum or a restaurant, review a movie, write about your favorite story, translate a story from your language to English)
__ TRANSLATE an article into English for a local magazine or web site
__ TRANSLATE an article into your language for a local web site or magazine

Listening
__ how do you want to practice listening this week?
__ ESL-Lab.com
__ NPR.org and search for “This I Believe”
__ Your idea: _____________________

Reading
__ Visit STUDENT GROUP on EmbassyCES.com
__ Visit a newspaper online. Raise your hand and say, “Did you hear what happened in [Germany choose a country]?” Then explain.

DO AT LEAST 5 things on this list and get a prize from the teacher.

Send suggestions for improving this list to my email address FreeEnglishLessons AT g Mail DOT com.

Article by Steve McCrea, http://www.FreeEnglishLessons.com