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 …
Teaching listening skills can be tricky, as all students learn at different paces.
Some students will “get it,” others may struggle… and what if a student is hard of hearing?
In this post, I’ll discuss how to teach listening skills…
Who doesn’t enjoy a well-orchestrated scary story?
Goosebumps and dim, creepy classrooms emitting ghoulish glows are what Halloween ESL lessons are all about!
But Halloween doesn’t have to be solely set on scary costumes and songs like “Thriller” or the …
Boo!
October is here, and so is the time for haunted houses, spider webs and Halloween activities for your ESL classes!
For some ESL students, this will be their first introduction to the late October holiday. It’s always fun to …
Think of the affective filter like one of our favorite party games: limbo!
How low can you go? The lower the filter, the higher the success!
If you are not already familiar with the concept of the affective filter, …
Let’s put our cards on the table, shall we?
Nobody normally gets excited about learning grammar.
It’s not easily visual like vocabulary, and it’s not automatically engaging like speaking and listening.
And when it comes to more advanced …
Games are fun and can have lots of linguistic advantages.
But it’s a lot of work to make new games from scratch, and classic board games weren’t created with the ESL student in mind.
So what’s a teacher to do?…