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Super Writer Eva Fuh: Don’t Worry Too Much
Every Thanksgiving, Tinity the turkey can hear strange noises coming from the big beautiful house next door. It sounds like there is a turkey screaming or crying. Finally, he asked his mother what the noise was.
The Rewards of Teaching
Teaching is an incredibly rewarding and satisfying experience most days, but these last two weeks in particular have been special ones for me. Several months ago, one of my students, Alexandria Lu, decided to start offering Chinese and English articles on her website. Most of the stories she has posted online are writing assignments [...]
Teach Abroad: Simple ESL Tips for Every Lesson
Simple teaching tips that you can use in your ESL classroom.
10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your English
1. Review. I know it’s boring, but it’s absolutely essential to language learning. Don’t bother to learn new words if you aren’t going to review. It’s a waste of time if you aren’t committed to reviewing your material. 2. Listen. The more you listen, the more you’ll remember. 3. Use your new vocabulary or lose [...]
One of the Joys of Teaching
There are very few days when teaching tries my patience, and today wasn’t one of them. Generally speaking, I love my job. There is one day in particular that I look forward to each week and it’s because of my creative writing class. I’ve been teaching these students for the past two years. I’ve watched [...]
The Importance of Recycling Vocabulary
Teaching vocabulary can be a challenge for new teachers. Most are quick to assume that once a new word has been taught, it has also been learned and will be remembered. Most new teachers don’t realize vocabulary needs to be continuously recycled. Students will likely forget vocabulary if they don’t encounter these words on a [...]
The Ultimate Harry Potter Challenge
With all the hype surrounding the latest Harry Potter book and movie, my students seem to be talking about nothing else. I’ve used this conversation lesson over the past week to generate team spirit and conversation in English. My advanced junior high school students haven’t stopped talking about it! Time: 2 hours. It depends on [...]
ESL Game: Dead Dice
Materials: 3 dice – Preferably the big, plush kind. Rule: Numbers 1 and 3 are ‘death numbers’. I use this game for teaching sentence patterns and grammar points. How to play: Divide the class into two teams.Write the sentence pattern or grammar rule that you are teaching on the board. Have the two teams take [...]
ESL Game: 15 Seconds of Me
This is a great game to use as an ice-breaker and will also give you an opportunity to gauge your students’ ability. I usually use it with older students since it can be a challenge to get them talking. The spontaneous nature of this game forces students to think outside the box. Materials: A stopwatch Warm-Up: [...]
