How to Teach Conversational English: 9 Best Practices When other teachers, even other ESL teachers, hear I’m teaching an ESL conversation class, they often say it sounds “relaxing,” or “fun” or “easy.” Most t ...
How to Teach the Present Simple Tense When teaching the Present Simple, the ultimate goal is to make sure your students understand that it’s used to describe routines, habits, daily activities, and general truths. It is a ...
Spooky Halloween Fun for Your ESL Class There probably isn’t a youngster who is not looking forward to Halloween. And most adults want to join in the fun too! Halloween is a great holiday to celebrate in the ESL classroom, as wel ...
Give Your ESL Students a BOOst with These Halloween Themed Language Activities Halloween is just around the corner, and it’s a great excuse to share some American culture with your ESL students. Here are some fun ways to bring the celebration of all hallows eve into ...
9 Absolutely Essential ESL Games for Vocabulary Review Well, it is that time again. You have finished your unit on (insert topic here) complete with vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, but you are not entirely done. The te ...
From ESL Zero to Hero: How to Teach Absolute Beginners In today’s globalized world, most beginner ESL students have had some contact with the English language, usually through the Internet, movies or TV. Many ESL students, often referred to as ...
Top 10 Ways to Teach Vowel Pronunciation in English Every ESL student should have a pronunciation element to their language studies. Sometimes, though, a student may need more than one strategy for tackling English pronunciation. By making sure yo ...
How to Become the Best Teacher: Students' Advice Your students can help you be a better teacher. Here are 10 tips to do it. Understanding the learning styles of your students can help you become a better teacher. And in this way, yo ...
First Lesson Magic: How to Introduce Yourself First lessons are the perfect opportunity to tell students a little bit about yourself and get to know something about them as well. This may be your first chance to determine your students&rsqu ...
Fabulous Ideas for the First Day of Class On the first day of class, the halls buzz with excitement. Teachers get ready to greet their students, anxious to get started, and our young, or not-so-young, learners are nervous, wonder ...
Using the Word Like This 12-page worksheet is to practice and revise the verb and adjective ‘LIKE’. It consists of 16 different exercises (likes & dislikes - like, would you like or do you like - ...
Prepositional Phrases This 13-page grammar guide includes prepositional phrases to learn about or review. It contains the most important prepositional phrases with ‘at’, ‘by’, ‘f ...
Professions-Jobs Vocabulary This worksheet contains a list of 10 professions or jobs. Students observe the pictures for each one, then complete the sentences by filling in the blanks using capital letters and compl ...
Teaching Prepositions Of Movement — Free ESL Lesson Plan This free ESL lesson plan covers how to use prepositions of movement and direction to help elementary-level students grasp the usage of to, toward, from, and away from.&nb ...
Linkedin Multiple Choice This multiple-choice cloze test is for students of English as a Second language at Level: B2 (upper-intermediate). This worksheet is helpful for tests such as FCE and IELTS and c ...
Confusing Words - Part 18 This worksheet no. 18 practices confusing words. It's a fun way to learn or review your vocabulary. There are 9 pages, 40 exercises, and more than 160 sentences (homophones, phrasal verb ...
Vocabulary – Multiple Choice Young learners, students must identify the correct word and then rewrite or select the answer in that multiple-choice sentence. This worksheet can be used for revision or to introduce ne ...
Quizz: Present Continuous The present continuous tense, also known as the present progressive tense, is used to describe ongoing actions or situations happening at the present moment. It is formed by using the pr ...
Present Simple Question Practice Young learners watch a animated video and then work in small groups to order the story cards to practice the Simple Present Questions and improve their cooperation and communication skills.
FAKE NEWS This game introduces how to SPOT FAKE NEWS. Students observe different pictures and titles, then discuss whether they think they are true or fake. After this, the teacher will reveal the ...