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Top 10 Websites for Business English Teachers No matter how well experienced or qualified one is, sometimes we reach stumbling blocks along our career path. Oftentimes this is generally due to the stress of teaching specific classes, or it m ...

Teaching Adults: They Know More Than They Tell Most people within the ESL industry will know that there is a huge difference between teaching adults and teaching children. It has been proven that children’s minds tend to be more “ ...

15 Secrets to Teaching Adults Traditionally, the image of the teacher has always been a stern authority figure with a blackboard and chalk. Ordinarily they presided over a classroom full of kids. Within the ESL industry, howev ...

Your Ticket to Travel: 10 Activities You Can Do With Stamps Not many teachers have the budget to take their students on a field trip around the world, but that does not mean you cannot leave your classroom far behind. Stamps have made travels around the wo ...

Essential Tips for Conducting a Class Debate Your students have better things to debate than whether Justin Bieber is better than Taylor Lautner. By introducing structured, formal debate to your ESL classroom, your students will benefit with ...

What You Can Do With Comics: 10 Creative Activities Everybody loves a good laugh, and what better place to get that laugh than in the funny papers? But Sunday morning is not the only time to turn to these unique expressions of the written word. Ta ...

New Ideas for Teaching the Weather On October 1, 1890, the U.S. Congress created the Weather Bureau. In 1970, its name was changed to the National Weather Service. In honor of the organization that provides so much essential infor ...

What You Can Do With Recipes: 10 Yummy ESL Activities We all love to eat and some of use love to cook. Learning to cook in English can be great fun but can your students read and follow recipes? It’s not as easy as you think. There are lots of ...

How to Teach Business English: Employment When starting out, many teachers might find themselves intimidated by these words. Business English undoubtedly sounds very professional, and appears to require a whole range of different skills a ...

What You Can Do With Newspapers: 11 Surprisingly Engaging Activities English language students discover a whole new world through newspapers, new words, new phrases, new ideas and even new faces! They may have read the news in their own language but reading it in E ...

What You Can Do with Fall Leaves: 7 Fantastic Fall Crafts for the ESL Class Most would agree that the best thing about the fall is its colors: deep russets, bright yellows and golden bronze browns. Yet, all too soon fall gives way to winter and all of those colors are gon ...

What You Can Do with a Paper Bag: 9 Splendid ESL Activities “Paper or plastic?” is the question supermarket shoppers have been asked for years, and though there is still much debate on which is the most environmentally friendly choice, ESL teac ...

Top 10 Ways To Get The Most From Your Guest Speaker Bringing a guest speaker into your class is an opportunity you should seek out. Your students will be exposed to a different style of spoken English, and they might also learn content that will be ...