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Beyond Multiple Choice: 7 Additional Ways to Test Your ESL Students Test: a set of questions, problems, or the like, used as a means of evaluating the abilities, aptitudes, skills, or performance of an individual or group; examination. – from Dictionary.com ...

Loud and Clear: 3 Listening Activities Adaptable for Any Level Having an arsenal of effective and engaging listening exercises is a must for all ESL teachers. Once you organize listening exercises, it is beneficial to be able to reshape exercises for all lev ...

7 Keys to Creating Tests that Make Students Feel Good about Themselves When you tell your ESL students that there’s a test coming up, they won’t be surprised. Tell them that the “grade” is not important, and they just might be a little bewilde ...

Get Connected: 3 Ways to Create Lasting Rapport with Students in Your Online Classroom Teaching English online is a method of connecting many types of students from all over the world, and challenges in an online classroom present differently than in a traditional classroom format. ...

Hearing is Believing: Teaching the Ways of Intonation and Stress Stress and intonation come so naturally to native speakers, sometimes we forget the importance of devising its structured practice with natural examples. In order to gain fluency though, students ...

Rome is a Place Where ... - Tips for Teaching Adjective Clauses “I am from Rome. Rome is very nice. People eat spaghetti in Rome. I like it a lot.” Any teacher who has ever encountered writing like this knows that students like to write in short si ...

Project Pronunciation: Perfecting Speaking Skills in Every Lesson Pronunciation practice should be a natural part of every ESL lesson. Speaking correctly is such a huge part of learning English, varied and interesting pronunciation practice should include commu ...

How to Teach Proofreading Skills: 6 Best Practices I have a confession to make. While a passably good writer, I am a mediocre at best proofreader. I’m always a little shocked whenever I see something of mine in print (“Really? How cou ...

How to Teach Punctuation Skills: 5 Best Practices “Mom, what’s a semi-colon for?” my daughter asked me recently. She was working on a school essay. “Well, can you show me where you’d like to use it?” I asked. ...

Mind Your ‘P’s and ‘Q’s: Teaching Pronunciation at the Segmental Level Any English speaker who has ever tried to perfect the trilled ‘r’ in Spanish knows that learning individual sounds can be a frustrating experience. What’s even more frustrating? ...

Online Odysseys: 3 Websites to Help You Teach Pronunciation In order to gain regular and varied pronunciation practice, students should be exposed to a range of accents, speech patterns, and ideas to polish their own accents in and out of the classroom. D ...

It's Not Mine, It's His: 3 Powerful Possessive Activities Possessives can be confusing for students, and unfortunately it is a topic that can be a bit dry. Since students really need to master all forms of possessives, it is important to practice them o ...

5 Real Life Activities for Listening Practice Listening has always been a fun subject for me and my ESL students. Today’s age of information offers so many creative and interesting sources for listening material. But what should your s ...