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10 Ways to Give Thanks This November When the crisp fall mornings make us think of turkey and mashed potatoes, our thoughts also turn to giving thanks. Being thankful for what we have is a healthy and beneficial attitude, so why is s ...

Remembering Our Heroes: Selected Activities for Veteran’s Day Veteran’s Day is a time in the United States for remembering those who have served their country in military duty. Many men and women have given their time and their lives to fight for the ...

Creative November Lesson Ideas It’s always nice to theme a class. This is especially true if you are teaching a particular type of English, such as business English. By working on a specific theme, the students can get a ...

Up, Up and Away: Aviation Themed Language Activities If you are teaching ESL classes, the likelihood that your students have flown on a plane is very high. Whether the air travelers are well into their adulthood or especially if they are still child ...

HOW TO: Teaching With Videos and Media The Internet has become an almost invaluable means of communication today. Rather than calling on the telephone, one can speak face-to-face with people who are on the other side of the world. As a ...

It’s All in How You Play the Game: Fun ESL Activities With a Sports Theme Though not every person can be classified as a jock, sports play a part in the life of every student. If your school requires physical education classes, sports may be a part of your students&rsq ...

☺ How to Make Your Grammar Lessons a Little More Interesting Unless linguistics and language is a passion, most people despise grammar and hate learning it. Indeed, there are many different teaching methods which people today purport which do not focus on ...

Are You Ready for Thanksgiving? Little Things That Make Your Lesson a Success If you happen to be teaching in the United States, or indeed happen to be a United States national teaching abroad, then there is no reason why you shouldn’t give a class on the concept of T ...

The Future May Bring…These Future Tense Activities for Your Class Though we all live in the present, many of us think about the future on a regular basis. In fact, when we do think about the future, we usually make plans and set goals for ourselves. We have a s ...

10 ESL Activities That Will Bring Music to Your Ears No matter where you are from, no matter what your native language is, you have experience with music. Music has the special ability to bring people together and sometimes to drive them apart, but ...

Top 10 Role Plays For Your Speaking Class Role plays can often be a fun and entertaining way of getting the class to practice their English. There are literally hundreds of possible ideas available, and what is listed below is only a few ...

Keep ‘Em Under Control: How to Handle Disruptive (and Disrespectful) Students Disruptive and disrespectful students can be a pain for any teacher. This tends not to be so common when it comes to teaching adults. A lot of people who are learning English are doing it for the ...

It’s Story Time: Teacher Tested Ideas for Telling and Writing Stories Everybody likes a good story, but just because a story has a beginning, middle and end does not make it good. By looking at some good stories and then teaching your students what elements compose ...