How to Become the Best Teacher: Students' Advice
Your students can help you be a better teacher.
Understanding the learning styles of your students can help you become a better teacher. And in this way, you can even learn from them.
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Top 10 Tongue Twisters: True Teacher's Treasure?
Tongue twisters in the ESL classroom – yes or no?
Although most don't make any sense at all, they can certainly help your students improve their pronunciation skills.
10 Fresh Roleplay Ideas for General English
Role plays are an excellent way of getting your students to practise their English. They simulate real life situations and allow them to act out what they would do in a real situation.
There ar ...
How To Energize Your Bored Students With This Great Game: Perfect For Any Level, Any Topic, Any Size Of Group
Jeopardy is a perfect ESL classroom activity for any level, any size of group, and any topic area.
It’s extremely adaptable and can be used for almost limitless purposes:
Review of the d ...
9 Ways To Bring Real Life Into The Classroom
What do we usually do when we have to teach fruits and vegetables in English? We use flashcards and illustrations, right? But what if we were to bring a basket full of fruits and not only have stu ...
Teaching Capitals
As with all rules in grammar, capitalization helps to convey a clear meaning. The purpose of capitalization is to portray the importance of different words to the reader. For example, the phr ...
Linking Verbs List with Worksheets
In this article, we will discuss a type of verb that describes a state of being. These verbs are referred to as Linking, Helping, or Auxiliary verbs. Unlike typical verbs, these “to ...
Likes and Dislikes Worksheet Roundup
Likes and dislikes are - arguably - the most important topic to teach anyone how to navigate. This skill allows us to express feelings about what’s going on, appropriately stand up fo ...
Inference Worksheets for ESL Students
As students advance through their ESL journey, they often acquire good reading and comprehension skills, at least on the surface. However, they often lack inferential reading skills to find ans ...
Irregular Verb Resources: 21 Fantastic Exercises
If you have your lesson plan, but you’re struggling with the materials to bring it to life, you’re in the right place. Below we’ve hand-picked 21 of our favorite irregular ver ...
Articles
This worksheet practices articles including definite, indefinite, and zero articles (exercise 6: ‘a’, ‘an’, ‘the’ or ‘some’). It contains ...
Don't be afraid Music Video Worksheet
Use this Pop music video as a fill-in-the-blank exercise in your English Classes for beginners, elementary and pre-intermediate students. This song will help you to connect with your young lea ...
Famous People – Charles Dickens
Students learn some interesting facts and information about the famous 19th-century writer Charles Dickens, the creator of some of the most well-known fictional characters. This fill-in-the-bl ...
Mnemonic Rhyming Groups
Learning can be fun with mnemonics. Irregular verbs, as referenced on this list (colored edited version) of Mnemonic Rhyming Groups can be used to form rhyming songs and to help ...
Thanksgiving Meal – Worksheet
Use this activity to practice Thanksgiving related vocabulary. Students complete the sentences by filling in the blanks. Words include Thanksgiving dinner, turkey, stuffing, mashed potat ...
The Election Day (USA)
This text is adapted from the NYT and provides information and language practice for upper intermediate students. It includes two reading comprehension exercises. It can also be read to ...
Listening/Reading/Writing/Speaking
Knowing the experiences of other teachers can be helpful for good class management. Individual differences in a class make a teacher consider many methods of approach. When there is a nu ...
Thanksgiving – What is it?
This lesson teaches vocabulary and expressions about American Thanksgiving. The language has been graded as 70% A1, 16% A2, making it ideal for every level and comprehension. It helps pr ...
Business English – How to Ask for a Raise
The worksheet helps students to develop speaking and listening skills in business and/or professional settings. Video-based tasks introduce common strategies with tips on ways employees ...
School Subject Guess Who
In this activity, students must ask questions to determine whose schedule is being talked about. (For example, Does this person have history on Monday?). Students can work in pairs, in s ...