ESL Speaking Exam Tips for Busy Teachers
ESL Speaking Exam Tips for Busy Teachers Students the world over look at speaking exams with absolute dread: a time for humiliation, embarrassment, shame and all the other words you’d […]
Motivate Adult Learners – Three Essentials
Motivate Adult Learners – Three Essentials Any teacher knows that motivated students will work more effectively towards their language goals. Motivation is particularly important in the adult classroom, to which […]
Vocabulary Teaching Strategies for English Learners
Vocabulary Teaching Strategies for English Learners It’s always the same, isn’t it? We do a lesson with all these fantastic words and phrases, which our students will need and find […]
H5P for Online English Teaching
H5P for Online English Teaching We are now living in an age where direct instruction is becoming passé. In Spring 2018, I created a questionnaire for 84 students and student […]
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom
NLP and Its Use in the Classroom ‘The map is not the territory: we all have different maps of the world.’ This phrase used by NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) practitioners nicely […]
Teaching English with Pictures – 3 Activities
Teaching English with Pictures Summer is upon us, in the Northern hemisphere, so I’ve decided to give you some ideas that can be used in summer schools as well as regular […]
Explain Grammar using Drawings
Explain Grammar using Drawings I have been using this activity for well over twenty years, but am really unsure of where it came from. I would love to credit the […]
How to Teach Collocations – The Sure-Fire Way
How to Teach Collocations – The Sure-Fire Way Would you like me to show you a sure-fire method to teach English to your students? Something that would not only give […]
ESL and Dyslexia – Some Techniques to Help Learners
ESL and Dyslexia – Some Techniques to Help Learners Sometimes you, as a teacher, know about them right away, as they will come into your classroom with an Educational Psychologist […]
What’s the Point of Articles in English?
What’s the Point of Articles in English? Many years ago, when I was a new teacher, I taught a 5-day one-to-one intensive English course with a manager called Dorota. Her […]