Author Archive | Elena Chou

5 Creative ESL Reading Comprehension Activities Your Students Will Love

Do your ESL students sometimes struggle to understand what they’ve read? I have five awesome reading comprehension activities for you here, that your students will surely enjoy! [fluentu-toc] 1. Picture Quiz: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?…

4 Creative Ways to Use Authentic Materials for Teaching English

Set aside those amazing ESL curriculum and teaching materials for a sec. I want to put something else in your hands: authentic materials. Can you feel the power they hold? Can you see the various forms they take? Do …

Comprehensible Input: 8 Teaching Strategies for Your ESL Classroom

Your job as an ESL teacher is to give your students the correct input. That way, you’ll get the right output—properly-learned language! That means you need to present new ideas to your students at the most linguistically appropriate level to …

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 …