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Classroom-Safe Animal Activities that Will Make Your ESL Class Go Wild Lions and tigers and bears, what do they mean? They mean tons of fun for your ESL class. With the following activities, your students can go on a safari, make predictions, or plan an unusual meal, ...

6 Absolutely Essential ESL Games for Vocabulary Review Well, it is that time again. You have finished your unit on (insert topic here) complete with vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, but you are not entirely done. The te ...

Fill Your Plate with these Food Themed ESL Activities Whether you from Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa or Australia, you eat food. It is an experience common to all people throughout the world. While we all eat, the things that we eat differ not o ...

Simon Says You’ll Love these Games for Teaching Anatomy Vocabulary Almost every teacher of English as a second language has taught a unit on anatomy at one point or another. Perhaps this is because it is one of the most tangible sets of vocabulary a nonnative spe ...

Top ESL Activities You Can Do in a Library One advantage to teaching ESL in a school setting is, no matter what age your students are, you probably have a library at your school. A library is always convenient for research and reading mate ...

5 Essential Reference Books You Must Have for Your Classroom (And 5 Others That are Still a Good Idea to Keep Around) Whether you are a seasoned pro or new to the English as a second language scene, you face challenges in your classroom every day. You expect nothing less, right? After all, you are teaching a grou ...

Holy Comics, Batman! 10 Tips for Using Graphic Novels in the ESL Classroom Comics are not just for little kids anymore. In fact, today’s graphic novel can fill many useful roles in the modern ESL classroom. Their minimal text paired with interesting illustrations a ...

★ What’s in a Name? These Stellar ESL Activities! If there is one subject that all the students in your ESL class can relate to, it is the subject of names. Everyone has at least one, often more, and although your students’ names will have ...

14 Quick Tips for Teaching Homophones For students who have not had any exposure to homophones, they can be frustrating and confusing. For students who have studied the sound alike word pairs, they can be a source of linguistic challe ...

Do Be So Dramatic: Ideas for Integrating Plays into the ESL Classroom Most ESL classes do not spend a lot of time reading and discussing contemporary drama. Just because drama is not common in the ESL classroom, though, does not mean there is not value in that genre ...

Get Up, Get Dressed, Get Going: ESL Activities for a Unit on Clothing No matter what level of ESL you are teaching, some topics seem to come up in class after class. One of these subjects that you will probably find yourself teaching at one point or another is cloth ...

Top 10 Ways to Teach Vowel Pronunciation in English Every ESL student should have a pronunciation element to his language studies. Sometimes, though, a student may need more than one strategy for tackling English pronunciation.   By making s ...

Verb Talk: Conversation Activities to Practice Using Verb Tenses Every ESL student needs practice with his or her verbs, but sometimes it can be difficult to move the practice off of the paper and into spoken English. The following activities can be used to giv ...