Sitting in the teacher’s lounge at my school one day, I overheard a younger colleague complaining to the others.
“It’s my class,” she told them. “They’re so noisy!”
I have to confess that I jumped in and congratulated her. …
When I was first invited to teach ESL to adults, I was a bit perplexed.
These students were “grown-ups” with families, interesting professional lives, plenty of experience and travel behind them, so I wished to discuss more complex …
All work and no play makes for a dull ESL classroom.
Every student deserves a little fun every now and again!
There must be scarcely an ESL teacher in the world who, in a moment of exhausted despair, has played …
A Spaniard, a Chinese woman and a Saudi Arabian man walk into an ESL classroom.
There’s no punchline (I didn’t say they walked into a bar, did I?)—this is just a typical day in your class.
And they have more …
I’ve noticed something a little troubling in my ESL classroom lately, and I wonder just how common it has become.
My 16-25 year old students are smart, tech-savvy and speak English to a generally high level (upper-intermediate and advanced), but …
