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What Does It Mean to Be Free? Conversations and Activities for the ESL Classroom For citizens of the United States, our freedoms are an important characteristic of our lives. Most everyone knows that the freedom of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are part of the Ame ...

Teaching English As A Second Language - Why A Dictionary Is Your Best Friend There are times we are absolutely stunned to see a lack of dictionaries being used to teach English as a second language. For us, a dictionary is the core of any teaching program and needs to be ...

Two Sides to the Cigarette: The Smoking Debate in Your ESL Classroom If you teach elementary school children, smoking may not be an issue you need to address very often in your classroom. However, if you are teaching adults from around the world you may find that t ...

10 Language Activities that Can Make Everyday Better In today’s world, innovation is king. People everywhere are continually making things better, faster, smaller and easier whether their products are computers or refrigerators. King Gillette ...

Vocabulary Makeover: How to Help Your Students Camouflage Common Words Vocabulary development and use is a consistent topic that ESL teachers and students must focus on. Vocabulary can sometimes be the most difficult aspect of language development since language rule ...

What do You do for Fun? Celebrating National Hobby Month (January) in Your ESL Classroom Are you a coin collector? Are you fascinated with stamps? Do you like video games or cooking or tennis? We all have something we like to do with our free time, our hobbies. January is national ho ...

Dear My Dear: 6 Letters All ESL Students Should Write Most ESL teachers, at one point or another, review with their students how to write personal and business letters, but that alone is not enough. Your students should have an opportunity to practi ...

You’ll Find Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice in These Language Activities When the weather turns cold there is nothing quite like curling up in front of a fireplace with a hot drink and a slice of spicy, brown gingerbread. Your classroom may not have a fireplace, but th ...

Extreme Structures: ESL Lessons with Strength Whether students and teachers realize it or not, physics can make for some of the most memorable classes in a school career. Anyone who has ever designed a machine to protect an egg as it falls fr ...

Top 10 Tips to Deal With Indiscipline in the Classroom It happens to every teacher at some point. Sometimes it is with the first class. Other times a teacher gets a few good years under his or her belt before it hits. Sometimes it seems like it happen ...

Tests Are Your Friends: How to Make Test Preparation Fun Your current unit has come to a close, and you have put your heart and soul into your classroom activities over the past weeks. Your students have had a good time and have learned, too, and now co ...

How to Teach Your ESL Students Job Application Skills: The Interview For students studying English as a second language for career purposes, job applications will be waters they will have to navigate. There is no need to throw them to the sharks, though, once they ...

Getting Serious About Fire Safety: Essential Activities for Your ESL Class Fire prevention week happens each year in October, but there is no need to wait until the fall to help your students stay safe when it comes to fires. The winter season is just as likely a time fo ...