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Teach English Writing: Quiz #1
English Writing Quiz Next week, the ESL students will have their first quiz in the English writing class. Here are some study notes for the quiz. Part 1 Articles One section of the quiz will hav...
ESL Speaking Activity – Scary Stories
Scary Stories This ESL conversation activity helps students learn English speaking skills by retelling a story. Memorization is a small part of this task, but more importantly, students need to ...
Learn English, Paraphrase Quotes
Learn English, Paraphrase Quotes In this pair work or small group discussion, students have two tasks: paraphrase the meaning of quotes and then debate the merits of the ideas. In this way, ESL ...
Learn English Role Play: Choices and Reasons
Learn English: Role Play Dilemma Focus: an inquiry based writing activity that also helps students learn English speaking, listening and critical thinking Time: 20-30 minutes, longer with a wri...
Learn English Verbs – Hobbies & Sports
Main Idea This 15 minute pair work exercise helps ESL student learn English phrasal verbs: go, do and play. Pair Work Practice Here are some speaking prompts to practice making Q and A with go, d...
What’s the category? An ESL speaking, listening and thinking activity
What’s the Category? Focus: speaking, listening and analyzing Time: 15 minutes Level: intermediate and up Main Idea This pair work activity helps ESL students learn English and improve fluency...
Learning English with a Walk About
Learning English with a Walk About Main Idea This wonderful, student-centred fluency activity generates lots language in the classroom with a good mix of scripted and spontaneous talk. If you’...
Learn English Speaking: An Inquiry-based Frame
English Conversation Lesson This ESL pair work activity helps students learn English by developing speaking, listening and critical thinking skills. Students interact with a specific question an...
Teaching English: Like and Look Like
TEACH LIKE AND LOOK LIKE ESL students learning English can easily confuse like, be like and look like. They are common words/phrases that express different ideas, so it’s important to teach the...
ESL Fluency Activities
ESL Fluency Activities Fluency, basically, is an ability to perform a language task faster. Helping ESL students improve language fluency is an important challenge for teachers. Of course mos...
Quick Vocabulary Games
QUICK VOCABULARY GAMES Managing the classroom pace is a skill that good teachers have mastered. Pace is not just about finishing the lesson on time; it’s about managing the flow of informatio...
Podcasts for ESL Students
ESL LISTENING RESOURCES Here is a short list of podcasts and listening resources I would recommend for any ESL student, intermediate level and up. This list does not include podcasts about gramm...
ESL Speaking Activity – I’m Fantastic
Routine. It’s a useful classroom tool. It also brings boredom and unhappiness. That’s why routine needs to be broken from time to time. That’s what this ESL speaking activity will do. Hopef...
Made of and Made from
Made From and Made Of This three-part English grammar and speaking lesson helps high-beginner and low-intermediate ESL students learn the difference between made from and made of. Part 1 – ...
Occupy Wall Street – Street Level
We have heard about Occupy Wall Street. But what is really happening? This video posted on Vimeo gives us a street side view of the events and the people trying to keep the protest alive. Watch t...
ESL Vocabulary Activities – Flashcards
Learning how to spell lots of new words can be a long, slow process for ESL students. So, I’m trying a new technique. It’s flashcard learning from Quizlet. This lesson is for my advanced le...
ESL Video Lesson: Blind
blind from YUKIHIRO SHODA on Vimeo. Here’s an exceptional video from a terrific video producer. The short video lesson is called Blind. The producer is Yukihiro Shoda. ESL Video Lesson A...
ESL Writing Quiz
Are writing tests hard for ESL students? Test your writing skills with this quiz. Here is a quiz which my English students completed in our university ESL writing class. The writing quiz has thre...
ESL Writing – Breakfast List
ESL WRITING LESSON ABOUT FOOD Here is a quick writing assignment. The purpose of this 5 minute lesson is to active the students’ memory of common words, review countable and non-countable n...
Power of Words
Are words powerful? Of course they are but I wonder if my students know that. I encourage my ESL students to improve and expand their vocabulary. That’s why I prepare vocabulary worksheets an...
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Learn Writing Style
How can ESL students learn to write with style? A great question for teachers. But, what is style? In this English writing lesson, ESL students can learn one way to write better paragraphs. It’...
English Listening Lesson – Seconds
Teach English Listening and Speaking Focus: speaking, listening and evaluating Time: 25-40 minutes Level: intermediate and up Main Idea This video lesson helps ESL students improve English lis...
Failure Breeds Success
A post about failure. Where I work, students are taught mistakes should be avoided. Mistakes are bad. Therefore, it’s not surprising that Korean students fear errors. They learn it’s better t...
Importance of Proofreading
Proofreading. It’s an important skill for student writers. Well, for everyone who writes, actually. Many students don’t like proofreading. They believe you write an essay or story once. And t...
Writing Hypothesis Sentences
Some English students have a hard time expressing complex ideas in short sentences. They don’t know how to summarize or synthesize information. This short lesson helps students overcome that ba...
Lesson 6: Paraphase by Using Definitions
This is Lesson 6 of the Paraphrase Writing e-course, the final activity in this e-course. In this lesson, you will paraphrase sentences by removing words and replacing them with their definitions...