Reading is perhaps the most essential skill for beginning language learners to develop.
It’s your students’ bridge to language and culture in the English-speaking world. It can also help enhance other essential ESL skills like speaking, listening and writing…
Great ESL books can be a wonderful asset to maximize class time.
They can help you brainstorm effective activities, set up games, create targeted lesson plans and give specialized assistance to different types of students.
This list contains some of …
Some teachers feel guilty about showing their students movies, thinking: well it’s not really teaching, right?
It’s tempting to think that putting on a movie is simply a great excuse for the teacher to sit at the back of the …
If you want to go beyond the usual verb exercises, I’ve got the solution for you.
This guide will help you integrate ESL verb games into your lesson plans for fun in the classroom.
After all, there are so …
The perfect ESL lesson plan can help you prepare for an almost-perfect ESL class (there will always be surprises).
With clear goals and a solid plan, you can go from flailing to confidently guiding your students through effective ESL lessons.…
Life is pretty complicated for teenagers, even without throwing English classes into the mix.
That’s why it’s so important for English educators to keep lessons for teens engaging and motivating.
Wondering how to do that?
I’ve been an ESL …
Seeing growth and improvement can be a huge motivator for ELL students.
But you can’t see growth if you don’t measure it.
That’s why no great class is complete without some way of assessing students.
Not only is it …