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10 Essential English Skills Your Students Need for College

ESL students study English for a purpose, and for many that purpose is higher education. Men and women, young and old travel great distances to attend colleges and universities. Many of them, though, must improve their English skills before they are accepted to the programs they desire. To make sure your ESL students are ready for class before enrollment day, check this list of English skills your stude ...

As Easy as OneTwoThree: 10 Ways to Practice Numbers in the ESL Classroom

Using numbers in a foreign language is difficult for most second language speakers. Because numbers are such an abstract concept, most people tend to revert to their first language when using them. Still, numbers are worth practicing and should be a part of most ESL classes. These fun classroom activities will challenge your students to use English words for numbers, sometimes in conversation and someti ...

Past, Present, Future: Teaching the Verb Tense System

Verb tenses receive a lot of attention in English instruction—in fact, they receive perhaps more attention than any other aspect of grammar. And with good cause: there are thirteen verb tenses in English, if you look at tense as ways to discuss time. The English-speaking world is obsessed with time and its passage: clocks of various types are ubiquitous in most English-speaking countries; a watch ...

Do This! Don’t Do That! 8 Interactive Classroom Activities for Using the Imperative

Do this! Don’t do that! Eat this, not that. Stand up. Sit down. Fight! Fight! Fight! The imperative is all around us, and as native speakers we may not even realize we are hearing or using the imperative. The imperative is probably best considered a mood rather than a tense in English, since it does not signal when any given action is performed. But even though it is not a tense in the traditional ...

No, It’s Not Arbitrary and Does Make Sense: Teaching the English Punctuation System

Did you know that you put in a comma in your writing whenever you take a breath? (I assume that means while reading aloud.) How about a period? Well, I guess that’s a deeper breath. You might also try putting a period at the end of a “thought.” And what about semi-colons and colons? Well…maybe those are for exceptionally long breaths and thoughts? Okay, I guess you can see that ...

Excuse Me, Teacher, Can I Go to the Bathroom: Managing Interruptions

You are probably familiar with the scenario: you at the front of the room, in the middle of lecturing on some important grammar point, when someone raises his hand. “Excuse me, Teacher?” You are annoyed but pause long enough to ask, “Yes?” “Can I go to the bathroom?” There is scattered laughter. And the surprising thing is that this is not second grade, as you migh ...

Beyond Opinions: 3 Ways to Facilitate Stimulating Discussion

One of the most beneficial ways to practice language naturally is through spontaneous discussion. At lower levels this is difficult to accomplish, but once students are at an intermediate level or above it is the perfect time to engage in some unadulterated discussion. Here are three ways to facilitate stimulating discussion. Try These 3 Great Ways to Facilitate Stimulating Discussion in Your Classro ...

More Than a Game: 6 Great Uses for Scrabble in the ESL Classroom

What game is produced in twenty-nine different languages, has sold over 150 million copies worldwide and four thousand clubs all its own? It is Scrabble. This word game was created by Alfred Butts in 1948 and has become a worldwide phenomenon. If you have never played Scrabble before, it is really quite simple. Each player has seven letters at any given time and must arrange them into a high scoring wor ...

Freeze Frame! How to Use Pictures in Your ESL Classroom

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why use them in the ESL classroom? After all, aren’t we language teachers trying to get our students to communicate and use the language they know rather than communicate through pictures? If they do not have the language for a particular situation, shouldn’t they seek out the language they need rather than side stepping the issue with a photo or stick ...