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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 ...

10 Teacher Tested Tricks to Teach Modal Verbs Teaching modal verbs can be a challenge, especially to beginning teachers who don’t have enough experience. Before teaching them, however, be sure to know what a modal verb is. It is a verb ...

MORE Fabulous Fall Activities for the ESL Class Fall is certainly a special time of year. There are as many activities you can do with your ESL as class as leaves on a tree. So, to follow up on last year’s article, Fabulous Fall Activiti ...

☠ How to Teach the Halloween Lesson You Can Be Proud Of Themed classes can always be fun and even help the class think of something else other than learning a language. Focusing on topics might spark a certain interest, and this can help in letting th ...

Top 10 Board Games for the ESL Classroom Board games can be a useful and ready asset for the ESL classroom. Most require little to no preparation, and with a little patience, your English learners add a new resource to their language stu ...

What You Can Do with Buttons: 8 Activities You’ll Splash with Color How many times have you put away an odd button with the hopes of using it again? If you have an old jar full of buttons you’ve collected over the years, now’s the time to use them: wit ...

It’s a Secret: 5 Activities You Can Do On Election Day This November, Election Day in the United Sates falls on November 6. For many of your students, the idea of voting and the structure of the American government may be very new and might also be co ...

Why You Should Always Start With a Warmer Starting with a warmer is important for a number of reasons. Your students need a chance to settle down into the class and get their minds focussed on the lesson ahead. Delving straight into diffi ...

5 Tips for Making the Most of Your Field Trip A field trip is more than just getting out of the classroom. It should be a learning event for your students that challenges their language skills and linguistic interactions. Following, find som ...

Trick or Treat: How to Teach Giving and Making Choices People make choices every day. We choose what to wear, what to eat, what to do with our time. We choose where to go and who to talk to. When you want to offer your students some choices of their o ...

The Syllables Have It: Activities You Can Use to Teach Syllables in English A catchy tune can make a person feel happy, bouncy or energetic, but what about a catchy rhythm? By manipulating words, sounds and syllables, a certain phrase or poem can get keep your mind caught ...

10 Essential Online Tools: What You Should Have in Your Back Pocket As teachers, we are always looking for new and interesting ways to present information to our classes and give them practice with linguistic concepts. Sometimes, though, we are not sure where to t ...