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You Already Know Them: 5 Guest Speakers Who Can Help Your Students’ Language Learning Do you ever feel like your students have gotten used to your teaching and language style? Do you want to make sure their language skills will be successful outside your classroom? Why not take adv ...

Dear Diary: 5 Creative Ideas to Get Your Students Writing About Themselves Have you ever seen your students sitting in front of a blank notebook with a still pencil in their stiff hands? Nothing on the page and only a blank look on their faces? For some students, giving ...

Busy Teacher’s Top Ten: Back to School Checklist Another fall has rushed summer from the scene, and for teachers that means one thing: school. Teachers have a lot of work to do to be ready before their students return to class. Make sure you ar ...

What You Can Do with Clothes: 8 Great ESL Activities When you have to teach clothes vocabulary, do you always use flashcards and illustrations? Why not give your students the real deal? Clothing items supply plenty of opportunities for kinesthetic a ...

Extra! Extra! Putting Together a Class Newspaper is Easy, No Extra Work Required! Having your class write a newspaper through combined effort is a great way for them to practice their language learning and work with a unit theme you are already teaching. Besides, since you are ...

What You Can Do with a Cell Phone: 7 Great ESL Activities In the ESL classroom, do you consider the cell phone your friend or foe? Yes, it’s a huge distraction for teens and adults, and the use of cell phones in the ESL classroom should be managed ...

5 Out of This World Ideas for Teaching About Space Are you looking for some stellar activities you can do with your ESL class while you teach about space? These activities will stimulate imaginations and get the creativity flowing as your student ...

Teacher’s Top Ten: Top 10 Ways to Motivate Your Students Even the best students have days when they are not motivated for classroom learning. With a little nudge from you, you can turn those dreary days into successful classes in their ESL careers. We ...

7 Back to School Games And Activities To Help Your Students Bond Whether you have a class full of antsy five-year-olds, shy teens, or busy adults learners, they all have one thing in common: they will be together for the duration of the ESL course, and they wil ...

Back to School Dilemma: Technological Gadgets in the ESL Classroom? If you teach a student over 10, chances are they have a cell phone. At the very least. Some may show up to class with an assortment of gadgets, including iPods, PSPs, or Blackberries just to name ...

Z: Creating a Paper Zoo in Your Classroom [Teacher Tips from A to Z] Every child has either been to the zoo or dreamed about going there. Kids love animals, and those animals are a great learning opportunity for young people. As teachers we love to take our classes ...

Back to School Tech Tips for ESL Teachers: Use Online Resources Not exactly tech-savvy are you? But you have to admit that starting a new school year can be overwhelming, particularly for new teachers. Luckily for us, the World Wide Web offers ways in which we ...

Invent Something Out of the Ordinary for Your ESL Class Are you looking for an activity to do with your class that combines both written and spoken language but has a creative element, too? If so, try this lesson on invention which challenges students ...