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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 ...

How Long is the Flight: 3 Timely Activities for Teaching Adverbs of Time Adverbs of time are useful and come up many times during a learner's course of study. Utilize these three activities to keep students in line with time.   The topic of time includes adverb ...

Nouns, Adjectives, Oh My: 3 Creative Ways to Reinforce Parts of Speech Creating opportunities to describe and discuss various parts of speech will reinforce just how important each part of speech really is; after all our language wouldn't be the same if just one of t ...

Frankly My Dear: Opening Up Viewpoints for Advanced Learners Advanced language learners need to be able to provide opinions and describe the reasoning for their viewpoints. It is a wonderful way to develop vocabulary, utilize complex grammatical structures ...

6 Steps to Design Your Very Own ESL Listening Quiz There comes a time in any ESL class when the teacher realizes students are bored with the listening material offered with the coursebook. So, the ESL teacher decides to give the class some extra ...

I've Had Enough: 3 Very Active Exercises for Describing Degrees Adverbs of degree can be difficult to approach because they have so many different uses, and the words themselves can be somewhat challenging to define. You can teach some of them early on, and t ...

Move Your Classroom to the Cloud: Pros and Cons of Teaching ESL Online Is teaching ESL online right for you? There is a lot to consider when making the leap from traditional classroom settings into an online forum. Assess the pros and cons below and make the best, m ...

English Only? Embracing L1 while Teaching L2 I am currently teaching an ESL of almost all native Spanish speakers. While this may seem nothing remarkable for an ESL instructor in California, it is a somewhat strange experience for me as I l ...

Using Pictorial Representations To Teach Rules Of Grammar, Punctuation, And Word Usage Amused by the misplaced modifiers in your students’ writing? Frustrated that your students omit commas in direct address? Tired of explaining the difference between your and you’re to ...

7 Tips for Teaching Clear Pronunciation In the test-based school environment that surrounds our classrooms, the skills of reading, writing, and grammar are increasingly important to our EFL students and to us as teachers. Whether prepa ...

Are You New? This is My Last Day: Addressing the Flow of Students In and Out of Class Adult-level, noncredit ESL classes offered at adult school and community college campuses are often designated “open-entry/open-exit,” which means that students can come and go as they ...

Reaching the Highest Level: 3 Spectacular Speaking Activities for Advanced Learners Teaching advanced learners is incredibly fun and rewarding, but sometimes it can feel like they have mastered everything you could possibly teach them. When it comes to communicating, there is al ...