Too often, the quantity of ESL students talking is given priority over the quality of the speaking time.
While it’s important to get your ESL students talking, it’s even more important to get them talking well.
But how do you …
When does 1 + 1 add up to way more than two?
When you combine ESL and math!
Whether you’re an ESL teacher adding math to your curriculum or a math teacher with ELL students in your classroom, you’re in …
Whether students are trying to get a head start on next year’s work or catching up on things they missed, it can be tough to motivate summer school students to concentrate on their English.
Luckily, where there’s a will, there’s …
When students are first learning a new language, they spend quite a bit of time learning grammar, vocabulary and structure, but, let’s face it: It can be kind of frustrating when they still can’t get by in a local restaurant.…
Phrasal verbs can be a tough element of ESL to approach with your class.
Your students have just learned the definitions of certain words… and now they have to learn all new definitions that seem to be completely arbitrary!
But …
Roses are red, green is the grass.
Now you can teach Valentine’s Day lessons in your English class!
So, let’s talk about love for ESL students. No, we are not going to be playing matchmaker—at least not intentionally. We are …
Teaching English to children can be very different from teaching adults.
Attention spans are often shorter, and kids’ vocabulary is more limited—even in their native language—meaning that the topics you can discuss are often limited as well.
Whether you …
While Thanksgiving is celebrated in both the United States and in Canada, the holidays take place one month apart and have different histories.
The two-day lesson below is better geared towards a celebration of American Thanksgiving, but feel free to …
Songs are a fantastic way to help students work on different elements of language learning.
There are many different ways to use songs in the classroom, from sing-a-longs to more structured listening exercises.
In this post, we’ll explore nine …
Learning numbers in a foreign language is straight-up memorization.
Think about it: You can explain verb form rules and conjugations to your ESL students. But there’s no real logic linking the word “four” to the number “4.”
That’s where ESL …
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