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How to Create a Grammar Plan for an Advanced ESL Class Your advanced students have really come a long way. They have gone from having no knowledge about English to reading articles and websites and listening to television and podcasts. On top of that ...

How to Create a Grammar Plan for an Intermediate ESL Class Your students have made it, well, part of the way, anyway. They are out of the beginning level ESL classes and are now able to express themselves in this once foreign language. They are creative. ...

Fit as a Fiddle: 7 ESL Activities to Celebrate World Health Day Every year, World Health Day is celebrated on April 7th to commemorate the founding of the World Health Organization. Whether you have young learners or adult students, this is a great day to not ...

Save a Tree: 7 Ways to Go Paperless for Arbor Day Did you know that recycling 54 KG of newspaper will save one tree? This means that every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees. And did you know that the United States uses approximately 68 ...

May I Take Your Order: Delicious Grammar Tips for Restaurant Language There are a lot more ways to practice restaurant language than just doing fill-in-the-blanks or rote role plays. Try these delicious grammar tips to get your students eating up restaurant-related ...

Be a Better Leader: 4 Things Your Students Need to Know About You The effort, determination and focus your students bring to their educations is most important to successful language learning, but it is not the only piece to the puzzle. What you do and how you ...

Beautiful and Charming: 3 Stunning Strategies to Practicing Adjectives for Any Level Building descriptive language skills can present many engaging and creative options for practice at any level. Try these three stunning strategies to practice adjectives and adapt each one for va ...

Helping Your Kids Get to College As a teacher you understand that being too busy to help every single student with every single need does not mean that you do not care about your kids. You want to help them, but you don’t ...

Getting Young ESL Learners to Listen: 9 Tips Any teacher who has taught young learners can tell you, it’s sometimes hard to get them to listen. I’m not just talking about getting them to listen to you as you give them instructio ...

7 Ways to Correct Your ESL Students’ Intonation Once and for All Intonation is one of those crazy little things that can make one speaker sound bored and another interested – while they use the same exact words. Intonation adds a dimension to the English ...

7 Keys to Effective ESL Listening Lessons with Video Out of all of the listening material you can give your ESL students, videos are the most enjoyable, as they have images that help students grasp meaning. But if the video is too hard, your ESL le ...

The Prediction Was Predictably Predicted: Teaching Word Formation and Parts of Speech For your vocabulary lesson, you need to teach students the word “prediction.” You have 9 other words to teach along with prediction, and thus you have introduced 10 new words to the s ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: 3 Tips for Practicing Adjective Order Establishing a wealth of descriptive vocabulary leads learners to the puzzle of how to order them. Take the guesswork out of adjective order by practicing these three tips to establish what comes ...