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Help Yourself to Seconds: More Ideas for Teaching a Cross-Curricular ESL Unit on Food

Food is a recurring topic in the ESL classroom. Perhaps that is true because food can be used in connection with many topics – personal preference, giving choices, culture, and memories to name just a few. Whether your students are studying food in relation to native cultures or because you will be taking a fieldtrip to a local restaurant, you can work across the entire ESL curriculum with activit ...

America is THE Free Country? Teaching the Article System

Sometimes about mid-semester I realize I’m really tired reading sentences like “America is the free country.” (Actually, they usually read “America is the freedom country,” but let’s focus on one issue at a time.) “Really?” I say to the offending student writer. “The only free country, huh?” He usually looks confused. “No. It’s the ...

Brilliant Brainstorms: How to Use Mind Maps to Jump-Start Writing

Writing is intimidating enough for second language learners, so why not simplify the process for them. Using mind maps to organize thoughts, brainstorm ideas, and synthesize information will surely jump-start your students’ writing. How to Use Mind Maps in Your ESL Classroom 1 Explain Mind Mapping Mind mapping is a wonderful tool to present to various levels of language learners. It can ...

Turn Right, Go Left: Practicing Prepositions of Place

Prepositions of place is one of those topics that can really open up a new world to learners. It is also a topic with lots of details and possibilities for practice and implementation. Below are some strategies for practicing prepositions of place focusing on location. How to Practice Prepositions of Place 1 Use Maps To introduce uses for prepositions of place, it is essential to show students ...

Say What? 3 Tips for Perfecting Pronunciation

Pronunciation is an immense issue for every language learner no matter their age or their level. It is a constant issue that students struggle with, and it is imperative to have focused practice on pronunciation at every stage of the game. Follow these three tips for perfecting pronunciation, and you’ll see wide strides of improvement. Try These 3 Tips for Perfecting Pronunciation 1 Liste ...

My Best Buds: Encouraging Students to be Close, but not too Close, to their Peers

It’s the first day of your ESL class. Your students, some of them in jeans and others in traditional religious clothing, eye each other suspiciously. They talk only to you and then only in monosyllables and in response to a question. Well, this seems to be the start of a terrific semester. So you implement plenty of ice-breaking activities, in which students have to talk to and get to know each ot ...

How Often Do You...? 5 Advantageous Tips to Introducing Adverbs of Frequency

Teaching Adverbs of Frequency is typically a lesson that is taught early on in beginner level class. There are many ways in which you can approach bringing the topic to light. Through a lot of trial and error, I have devised these five advantageous tips to introducing Adverbs of Frequency. How to Teach Adverbs of Frequency 1 Use Percentages to Define Adverbs It can be somewhat challenging to d ...

Why You Should Use Cell Phones in Class: 8 Activities For Putting Phones to Positive Use in the ESL Classroom

When the typical teacher sees her students using cell phones in class, her response is to put it away, take it away or through some other means remove the phone from the classroom. Today’s phones, though, have many features your students can use to their advantage when learning English, and allowing them in the classroom may just help your students learn. Here are some activities you might want to ...