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…
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 …
You’re running a little late for your first ESL class.
When you enter the room, you find it filled with unknown people waiting for you at their desks.
They may be chatting among themselves and slowly hush.
They may …
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 …
