How to Teach Conversational English: 9 Best Practices
When other teachers, even other ESL teachers, hear I’m teaching an ESL conversation class, they often say it sounds “relaxing,” or “fun” or “easy.” Most teachers will smile at this, of course,...
View Article6 Best Tips for Reviewing for an ESL Speaking Test
Speaking English in day-to-day situations is often a source of frustration for ESL students – imagine how frustrating it is for them to take a speaking test. Tests in which ESL students are required to...
View ArticleClothes Crossword
This crossword will help you to revise clothes vocabulary (jeans, skirt, shirt, hat, trousers, socks, tie, hat, shoes, t-shirt, dress) with your students. There are pictures instead of words, so it is...
View ArticleNegative Prefixes
Here is a crossword with negative prefixes. Students are to fill in the crossword with words beginning with im-, in-, un- or ir-. There are 17 words, mostly adjectives and a few verbs. It is a one page...
View Article'Gr' Pronunciation Practice [Tongue Twisters]
Greg Granger gave Gretta green grapes. Sometimes the 'gr' sound is hard for people to pronounce. After describing how to position your mouth and tongue, and then modeling the sound, this 'gr' practice...
View ArticleWh-question Words Using Fares of Post Office and Cinema
Here's a worksheet I use to teach basic English to Thai students; there are two tables with fares: one for the post office and one for the cinema: different letters, package destinations and different...
View ArticleWinter Fun (Mingling Activity)
Hello, I created a worksheet to practise winter activities and Present Simple tense. It is a simple mingling activity. Hope you'll enjoy it! Your students will practise asking questions and also it...
View ArticleAnimals Live IN or ON...
This PPT presentation can help you to teach your students to use the prepositions of place -on and -in in a very short vocabulary activity: forest, house, zoo, farm. You can practise the 3rd person...
View ArticleSong Worksheet: Everything At Once by Lenka [Alternative 3]
Listening activity. Focus on adjectives and nouns. Look at pictures, remind vocabularies. Say one or two adjectives to each picture. Listen to the song, fill missing words. Sing this song.
View ArticleIt's Cold in January
Students create new words using the letters in "It's cold in January" There are seven columns for them to complete. The new words can be from different categories or related to a specific topic (i.e...
View ArticleEnjoying Your Home
This PPT can be used to improve SS' speaking skills on the topic HOME. Students can match the words with the pictures. You can give grammar construction There is-there are in the affirmative, negative...
View ArticleFood Riddles: Guess the Food
Guess the food in a short food description. Food riddles. We are studying about foods and how they help make us strong. We are learning what is good for us and what is not good for us to eat. We wrote...
View ArticleTenses Worksheet
I've created a test which consists of present, past and future tenses. It is suitable for pre-intermediate and intermediate students who would like to practise tenses. For some students it is very...
View ArticleModal Verbs Elementary Worksheet
This is a worksheet for revising modal verbs at elementary level.There are 3 activities in which students are asked to make questions and give true answers following the example,decide what they must...
View ArticleColours Matching Activity
This is a very simple matching activity for teaching or revising colours related vocabulary at elementary level.Students are asked to match the pictures with the words given.The answer key is included.
View ArticleHomographs Worksheet
This is a 2-page worksheet for teaching homographs at elementary level.The first page is basically just a just sheet, which can also be used as a picture dictionary, and the second page has an activity...
View ArticleToo and Enough
This worksheet is a good lesson of Too and Enough. They are explaiedn in forms of when to use Too and when to use Enough.Examples are provided with each form and in the end there is a summary which...
View ArticleExplain and Draw
It is a pair work activity. Student A has to face the picture and explain it. Student B faces back to the picture projected, listens to the explanations and draws. Allow max 3 min to do the task. Then...
View ArticleHotel Review: Reading and Discussion
Two-page worksheet includes two hotel reviews (one positive, one negative) with typical vocabulary found on web sites like Tripadvisor.com. The second page has discussion questions about hotels...
View ArticleDo You Like School?
This worksheet can be used for a guided writing session. Activity 1 triggers students' opinions about school (what they like/don't like, how they feel at school). Activity2, students are asked to write...
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