It is only a reading text about history of pizza. It is appropriate for intermediate students. You formulate some questions about the text and give it your students. The text has been simplified to suit intermediate students. You can also design a pre- ...
It is only a reading text about history of pizza. It is appropriate for intermediate students. You formulate some questions about the text and give it your students. The text has been simplified to suit intermediate students. You can also design a pre- ...
This worksheet is for low level adult or teenage students to practise talking about past daily habits. Students mingle to find out who the sentences belong to using past simple questions with 'Did you…..?', giving short answers 'Yes, I did. No, ...
Here you have the song "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows in which students choose the correct word the first time. Then, they have to discriminate words by their sounds.Finally, they look for synonyms and antonyms for the words provided.
This worksheet is specially for teachers who want to teach comparatives and superlatives which may be a difficult topic. In the Power Point presentation, the teacher explains the use of comparatives and the rules they follow. Also the use of superlativ ...
Here you have the song "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows in which students choose the correct word the first time. Then, they have to discriminate words by their sounds.Finally, they look for synonyms and antonyms for the words provided.
This worksheet is for higher level adult or teenage students to discuss health problems. Students play in groups of four or five. When they land on a square they read it and need to talk about it for 30 seconds to 1 minute. The first person to reach ...
What is happiness? We all are in pursue of it. Does money bring happiness? In this presentation, which was initially designed for interactive boards, we tried to find answers with our students. We heard about enjoying little things in life, friendship, ...
This is a role-play worksheet: a press-conference with Angelina Jolie. The main purpose of this activity is a) revising question formation in present simple, past simple, present perfect (for the students acting as journalists) and b) detailed reading ...
This worksheet is a great way to talk about differences between the U.S. school environment and a foreign school. The students work on their own or with a partner for the warm-up and then discuss what they came up with. Then I have them take turns read ...
This worksheet is a simple matching exercise for students to learn basic vocabulary for describing a horror/suspense film. It can be used as group work or individual work. It works best after the students have seen a film. Once they've gone over the an ...
You walk into your classroom and find your group sitting in silence.
Half are sleepily on their phones, and the other half are snoozing at their desks. Bringing to school the energy to revitalize such a group is one of the first challenges of a teache ...
The Problem
Remember in your high school foreign language classes? Did you speak for about two minutes in the target language and the rest of the time in “L1”, your first language?
Teachers are obliged to tackle a very strong, natural ten ...
When asked, most of my students tell me that grammar is their least favorite ESL subject.
It’s seen as dry and dull, disconnected from daily reality, oriented towards test-taking and university entrance exams, and full of capricious, confusing r ...
I had an unsettling experience this week.
In an old teaching file, I found a photo from 2006 of one of my multi-national classes, busily working on something in groups. Something caught my eye, and I compared it to a similar picture from a very recent ...
“Although listening is obviously just as important as reading, writing and speaking, I’ve come to realize I don’t really include listening as part of instruction or plan activities to intentionally practice listening only. So how do y ...
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Despite a common image of an overworked, grumbling about pay teacher, several different studies around the globe independently revealed an amazing fact: people who choose to be teachers are happier than the majority of other professionals. Below i ...
Busy teachers know all too well how hectic things can get. The moment a class finishes, preparation for the next one looms large, and many of us, especially newer teachers, find themselves experiencing a lot of stress.
Uncertainty over the content of ...
Are you tutoring ESL students to pass their English courses?
Tutoring students who are taking English for course credit can be a meaningful experience, but it can also put us English language professionals in compromising ethical situations. If you ar ...
I’m getting worried about something I’ve noticed in my classroom.
My 16-25 year old students are smart, enthusiastic and tech-savvy, but very often I find a real lack of ‘worldliness’ and I think the ESL classroom is a great pl ...
Engaging the disengaged student is a perennial problem.
If all students could be easily and efficiently motivated and engaged in the learning process, there would almost be no need for teachers, or at least individuals with special training in teachin ...