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Are your students ready for a fun filled game style spelling review? Here are some ways to get their pulse quickening and the letters in the right order. Try These 10 Fun English Spelling Games with Your Students 1 Unmix It Up Have students unscramble letters to make an English word. Using a current vocabulary list, have each student write the letters for one word on index cards – one le ...

ESL students study English for a purpose, and for many that purpose is higher education. Men and women, young and old travel great distances to attend colleges and universities. Many of them, though, must improve their English skills before they are accepted to the programs they desire. To make sure your ESL students are ready for class before enrollment day, check this list of English skills your stude ...

On the second Sunday in May every year, people in the United States celebrate Mother's Day. It's a time to stop and honor mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, and like-a-mothers for everything they do. The word mother and grandmother is different in every language. Even in the United States, there are different terms for mother - mom, mama, mommy, etc. In honor of Mother's Day, we thought we'd take som ...

April showers bring May flowers. The month of May can feel like the beginning of summer to some people so students may already be thinking about summer vacation. If this is just a normal month of classes, check the school calendar to see if there are any activities planned that you can incorporate into your lessons. For some schools, this may be the last month of school for you and your students in whic ...

We all have those not so great days. Even the most enthusiastic of teachers needs a little TLC from time to time. But sometimes we feel like taking care of our teacher selves means short changing our students, so we put ourselves last on the list. That doesn’t have to be the case. Teachers can take care of themselves and still give their students what they deserve in class. In fact, teachers who p ...

Teaching English is tremendously rewarding, right? But what if we were to teach our ESL students to be responsible, to take care of the environment we share with all living species? How much more rewarding would that be? Now's your chance! Earth Day is near, and there’s no better time to use the language skills your students are acquiring and use them to help save the environment. Earth Day Activ ...

Another major holiday rolls around and your students know you’ll be up to something. You’ve had special lessons for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, so they’ll be expecting the Easter crafts, new vocabulary, and worksheets, as well as the reading, writing and speaking activities. They’ll also be expecting the Easter games. They know full well that any games you play in clas ...