Analyze This: How to Use Student Critical Analysis for Language Development in the ESL Classroom

Analyze This: How to Use Student Critical Analysis for Language Development in the ESL Classroom

Remember. Understand. Apply. Remember the rules of grammar. Understand what a certain tense means. Apply that knowledge by using that tense to express your experiences or hopes. That’s the ...
3 Ready to Go ESL Lessons Based on Disney"s Movie Inside Out

3 Ready to Go ESL Lessons Based on Disney’s Movie Inside Out

Whether or not you are ready to talk about how you feel, emotions can be a great starting point for some interesting ESL lessons. Watch the movie with your class, and then follow up the screening ...
Let the Little Ones Speak: 6 Fun Activities for Coaxing Young Learners out of Their Shells

Let the Little Ones Speak: 6 Fun Activities for Coaxing Young Learners out of Their Shells

Communication is key when it comes to language learning. Language is a tool, something we use to make connections with other people around us. And a big part of that connection comes through talk ...
Is Teaching Online Right for You? 6 Perks to Virtual Teaching

Is Teaching Online Right for You? 6 Perks to Virtual Teaching

In this virtual world that we live in, jobs aren’t what they used to be. Even teaching jobs. In the past you set up your classroom, decorated the walls, arranged the desks, and made photoco ...
Inviting Technology without Forcing out Communication: 3 Great Activities

Inviting Technology without Forcing out Communication: 3 Great Activities

“Here’s your new family portrait,” you say. She looks down at the picture. She and her husband and her two children, each holding a phone or tablet, all looking down at the scre ...
Open Lines Open Hearts: 4 Activities for Teaching about Diversity and Social Justice

Open Lines Open Hearts: 4 Activities for Teaching about Diversity and Social Justice

We are all different. Odds are that if you are teaching English as a second language, you have pretty obvious evidence sitting right in front of you every day. And everyone in your class has prob ...
Creating a Room that Connects: 5 Ways toBring Your Classroom into the 21st Century

Creating a Room that Connects: 5 Ways toBring Your Classroom into the 21st Century

A teacher desk at the front of the classroom with rows and columns of student desks just doesn’t cut it anymore. The geometric arrangement that teachers have followed for generations was a ...
When the Teacher Needs an Attitude Check: 4 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Teaching Self

When the Teacher Needs an Attitude Check: 4 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Teaching Self

I hope you're not having one of THOSE days. You know the kind of day I’m talking about – when you spill coffee on your new shirt as you’re driving to work, when your books fall ...
Invitation to Fail: 4 Big Reasons You Should Encourage Your Students to Reach for the Unreachable (and Why It Will Benefit Them)

Invitation to Fail: 4 Big Reasons You Should Encourage Your Students to Reach for the Unreachable (and Why It Will Benefit Them)

Failure. It’s a word that strikes terror into the A students among us. Teachers included. So why encourage failure in the ESL classroom? There are actually several positive things that come ...
What Is SEL and Why Your Young Students Need It

What Is SEL and Why Your Young Students Need It

ESL. ELA. EAL. TOEFL. TOEIC. L1L2. The English as a second language field is full of acronyms. If you’re like me, you have days when you feel you just can’t cram another one into your ...
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Pictionary

Pictionary

Pictionary is a fun game! You can play this game as an ice breaker in the first session of your classes. The game is pretty simple: players take turns silently drawing things written on the index ...
Volcano Game, Past Simple and Directions

Volcano Game, Past Simple and Directions

This ppt is a good game for your students to review past simple and directions. Divide your class into 2 teams. Students are going to choose letters by chance. Each question has got a point and if ...
At the Airport

At the Airport

This worksheet has been designed for young learners of English and it's way to have fun while recycling vocabulary related to airport. This worksheet is a mixture of different activities and game ...
Song Worksheet: Twas the Night Before Christmas

Song Worksheet: Twas the Night Before Christmas

This is a famous poem by Clement Clarke Moore called "A Visit from St. Nicholas" or more commonly known as "Twas The Night Before Christmas". The worksheet is a poem with pictures and translation ...
Movie Worksheet: Sports in Britain

Movie Worksheet: Sports in Britain

This worksheet is devoted to the topic “Sports in Britain”. The first page includes 4 questions that can be discussed after the first viewing, the second one represents a multiple-choi ...
Game, Debates

Game, Debates

Give each students two cards, agree & disagree. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student f ...
Beach and Sightseeing Holiday

Beach and Sightseeing Holiday

I have designed this file for reviewing some vocabulary items related to beach and sightseeing holiday such as sunbathe, guidebook, go sightseeing, etc. First students are asked to write the missi ...
Movie Worksheet: How I Met Your Mother, Past Passive

Movie Worksheet: How I Met Your Mother, Past Passive

I have designed this file for reviewing the past passive voice. It is designed based on episode 9 of 'How I Met Your Mother' (season 5). Students are asked to complete the sentences with past pass ...
Movie Worksheet: How to Celebrate British Christmas

Movie Worksheet: How to Celebrate British Christmas

This worksheet is created on the basis of a video from Anglophenia. Watching and doing the given exercises the students will learn some basic facts about British and American Christmas traditions. ...
English History Succession War 1139

English History Succession War 1139

A simple mind map about Succession War, its causes, important facts and how it ended up. I use these maps to get a general view of a topic leading to discussion or group work to add details. Mind ...
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