Make Them Want to Talk: 5 Taboo Subjects for Your Teen Conversation Class
No matter what culture you are teaching, it is probable that, if you teach beginner to intermediate level young teens (13-17 year olds), you find that they are suddenly shy, unresponsive, do not like...
View Article4 Must Know Types of Adverbs and How to Teach Them
The term “adverbs” encompasses a lot in English. You can break this large category of speech into four smaller groups to make learning easier for your students. Here are the four types of adverbs your...
View ArticleMake It Fun: Teach Adjectives Using These 9 Creative Writing Ideas
Creative writing can be a powerful tool for increasing your students’ vocabulary. Having fun whilst learning is an objective that most teachers aim for and this can be achieved during a lesson with a...
View ArticleESL Coursebook Listening Tasks: 6 Steps to Make the Most of Them
If you’ve ever used an ESL coursebook (and most ESL teachers have), you’ll probably agree that the listening tasks are often lacking. Not in terms of audio quality – most coursebooks offer engaging...
View ArticleImportant Events in Thailand
This worksheet can be used in English Social. I have used this in teaching grade 2 Thai students but you can change some events and make them international events. This is a good practice in speaking,...
View ArticleThings Found in Space
This worksheet is to be used by Grade 4 pupils who are learning Science and English vocabulary. The teacher can first discuss different terms or words related to Astronomy through flashcards or board...
View ArticlePrepositions of Time Intermediate Worksheet
This is a worksheet for revising prepositions of time at intermediate level. There are 2 different activities in which students are asked to choose the correct preposition and fill in the blanks with...
View ArticleGerund versus Infinitive Worksheet
This is a worksheet for teaching the differences between gerund form and infinitive. There are 3 different activities in which students are asked to underline the correct form, correct the mistakes in...
View ArticleHave/There Is/There Are
Differences and comparisons between 'have' and 'there is/are', their uses and sentence translation (Portuguese to English). While 'have' talks about possession, belongings or obligation to do something...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Eva Cassidy (The Present Perfect Tense)
This is a very simple song by Eva Cassidy (who has an incredible voice!) to teach the abbreviated form of 'have' and also the function of present perfect tense especially for adult learners of English....
View ArticleNote-Taking During Lectures: 7 Ways to Help Students Prepare
For English Language Learners who are preparing for study in American universities, the development of effective note-taking strategies is among the most essential skills for academic preparedness....
View ArticleNew Kid on the Block: 10 Tips for the Brand New ESL Teacher
Starting your first job as an ESL teacher? Don’t know where to begin? Worry no more…this article will give you 10 tips to put your mind at ease, whether you are about to stand in front of a classroom...
View ArticleHairdos and Hair Cuts
This is a vocabulary worksheet with some useful sentences and a pictionary to speak or write about hairstyling. It can be useful for physical description as well. It can be used for conversation...
View ArticleVocabulary Knowledge Checklist
A simple checklist for students to note how well they know and can use vocabulary. Makes a great preview or review. Students write a list of vocab and then whether they recognize it, can use it with...
View ArticleSocial Vocabulary Worksheet
A great previewing exercise for students to see the power of social learning. For use with any set of vocabulary that you choose. Students write down the list of words to learn. Then in pairs they...
View Article'To Be' Strips
This is a quick practice of 'to be' verb. The students take a strip with a sentence. They must complete the sentence with the correct form of the verb to be and then change to negative and...
View ArticleSweet Christmas with Odd Numbers
This is a Christmas themed pack of worksheets for odd numbers 1-100. Write the odd numbers (1-20), write the odd numbers (1-50), write the odd numbers (1-100), addition sheets in different themes,...
View ArticleMovie Worksheet: Office Space
I created this activity to give some comic relief to my advanced business classes. I love this movie and I refer to it all the time when students complain about the trials and tribulations of office...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Tea Song (Yorkshire tea)
This worksheet is based on the video advertisement about Yorkshire tea. You can start with describing English tea traditions and the English passion about tea. Afterwards you could get to this...
View ArticlePresent Perfect Continuous Drilling
This document allows you to get the idea of forming and using the present perfect continuous tense and provides several exercises for drilling and comparing it with present perfect. The exercises are...
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