“I would love some advice on creative ways to practice writing. I find that my students simply don’t enjoy writing and often stare at the blank sheet paper for the longest time. We all know that writing is a very necessary skill, but I woul ...
“I would love some advice on creative ways to practice writing. I find that my students simply don’t enjoy writing and often stare at the blank sheet paper for the longest time. We all know that writing is a very necessary skill, but I woul ...
Depending on the type of class you teach, you may be someone who recruits students for your classroom and/or program.
This can be challenging, and depends on a lot of factors. Here are some ideas to get more students in your classroom, eager to learn. ...
Remember those books in which you have to choose which door to open, or which orc to fight, or whether to take the bag of silver or the magical mirror?
Jackson and Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy series was excellent, as were the Choose Your Own ...
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 day’s material, or before a test
Check understand ...
Here's how you can recognize a true teacher. Yes, it's that simple :) Please share with your friends if you think our profession deserves just a little more respect!
Many people have watched, or have at least heard of the travel/adventure based show “The Amazing Race.”
This particular concept is a perfect model for an ESL summer or winter camp. Of course, teachers can’t very well have students ta ...
We have all had those classes: the ones that just look down at their desks when you call for volunteers.
Another variation is the class with one or two eager students backed by a full choir of zombies waving in the background. Usually this results in ...
Who are you for your students?
The answer to this question seems obvious: you are their teacher, their educator, a person who shares his knowledge with them and tries to teach them everything he knows. It may be a surprise for you, but your students h ...
This ppt will guide your students through the very basics of coherence and cohesion. I used it as an intro to the topic. What coherence and cohesion are, examples and tips on writing coherent and cohesive texts. Hope you find it as useful as I did! Enjoy!
The exercises present scrambbled sentences to work on text unity and connection of ideas plus work on pronoun consistency and conjunctions. The activities were thought to be worked on after the presentation of the topic. Hope you find it as useful as I ...
Learn English while listening to this cover by Seal. Fill in the gaps and answer the questions. The file is fully hyperlinked to the external audiovisual material. Some meanings in Spanish are given, but you can work with the worksheet even if you don' ...
This worksheet includes exercises on mixed tenses: present and past. Each exercise gives you two possible tenses to choose from. Four exercises including: present simple, progressive and perfect, past simple, progressive and perfect at pre-intermediate ...
Autumn Walk - Picture prompt. This is a creative writing activity for elementary/primary students. They must look at the picture and think of a creative story to go along with it, then write their story on the lines provided. This worksheet was created ...
Invisibility potion - picture prompt. This is a creative writing activity for elementary/primary students. They must look at the picture and think of a creative story to go along with it, then write their story on the lines provided. This worksheet was ...
It is based on the application for mobile phones. In this presentation you´ll find 15 pictures (15x4 if I should be precise). Every 4 pictures have something in common and the goal of the ss is to guess the correct word. There is a clue for ss - ...
A conversation worksheet on the topic of fame. This worksheet could be used as a warmer activity or even practice as an IELTS speaking topic. Learners review vocabulary items, read opinions from other students around the world and then discuss the topi ...
The topic of the presentation is subject and verb concord and its difficulties and special cases. It is aimed for upper intermediate level of English, the materials are not usually taught in schools this way. Nevertheless it is an interesting and slig ...
This is an extreme weather matching activity. Various extreme weathers, can lead on to other things such as climate change. Can be used to start the lesson or good after brainstorming various types of weather. Worksheet includes: flood, heat wave, eart ...
The first part of the presentation introduces a few typical English (Irish) housing styles. The second part concentrates on the inside of a typical English house. There is a short quiz at the end, to test student's comprehension, and a game to practice ...
This worksheet is for higher level adult or teenage students to play a game of Snap by making correct entertainment words using suffixes. Students play in groups of three to four. They take turns in turning over cards. The first person to shout Snap w ...