Author Archive | Elena Chou

5 ESL Listening Exercises to Sharpen Your Students’ Ears

All we hear defines the world around us. Whether you’re hearing a child’s laughter, a babbling book or a frat boy belching in your ear — sounds shape our world. Listening is a major part of life experience. Unfortunately, lots …

7 Learning Styles: An ESL Teaching Strategy That Works

Feeling bogged down with lesson planning, paper grading and other mundane tasks? Day-to-day ESL lessons aren’t only challenging for your students. They’re challenging for you as well. It’s crucial that you develop teaching strategies that will inspire and motivate …

9 Quick and Fun ESL Games to Teach Verbs and Tenses

If you want to go beyond the usual verb exercises, I’ve got the solution for you. This guide will help you integrate ESL verb games into your lesson plans for fun in the classroom. After all, there are so …