Google “English listening exercises.” Go ahead.
Now, sit back in awe at the quarter-of-a-million hits those three words get you.
To reiterate, that’s 250,000 places where you can find listening exercises for your English class. Amazing, right?
But be forewarned: …
You know the tune, sing along with me…
A B C D E F G!
But wait! Is that really appropriate for this class?
I mean, the average age here is around 25 years old.
These are adults! Do they …
Ever feel like your ESL classroom is trapped in the same old routine?
You spend all day covering topics like grammar, expressions, idioms and phrasal verbs, only to slap your students with quizzes, monthly assessments and the big, bad, …
How often have you repeated the following sentence to your students?
English isn’t pronounced as it’s written, nor is it written as it’s pronounced.
While for about 15% of English this is true, there’s another 85% where the letters …
You’ve heard of it: “English Only.”
The tenet that in your ESL classroom the only acceptable language will be English.
But let’s take a moment and think about English Only.
Only is an adverb that limits. Having its origins in …
Sitting before you is a classroom of unknown faces ready to learn English.
But they’re starting from zero, so where should you begin?
In this post, we’ll cover what you need to know to get started and thrive when teaching …
Whatever you do, just keep them spinning.
That’s what we tell ourselves as teachers.
We keep spinning one after the other until we’re balancing a whole slew of plates as easily as if we were chewing gum.
But instead of …
As teachers, we put on our professional grade (emotional) armor and we charge into the day ready to conquer the world.
We slay learning objectives on a daily basis while delicately balancing students’ self-esteem on our steed of knowledge.…
You may think that a conversation class is simply connecting on Skype and chatting away.
While some students are looking for just that, a truly valuable ESL conversation class will involve careful planning and guidance on the part of the …
Do your students sometimes wonder aloud just why they have to study English?
Have you tried storytelling in class, just to find your students don’t seem to have stories to tell?
Are you teaching history in a full immersion environment …
Have you had a hard time finding educational and useful video material for your ESL class?
Have you been told that video lessons aren’t an economical use of class time?
Have you thought that video is not active enough…
When you look around your ESL classroom, do you see students ready to nod off to sleep?
Do you hear a choir of groans when you ask your students to open their texts?
Are your students focused on anything besides …
How many times have you done that same old restaurant role play?
How about the one where people are waiting in line? The post office one?
Role plays help your students overcome the stage fright they experience when using English. …
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