Teaching ESL on Zoom – 3 Underused Features
Teaching ESL on Zoom – 3 Underused Features The internet abounds with stories of teachers moving their lessons online; they reflect on their experiences, and then they write about them. […]
ESL Writing Activities – Some Tips for the Teacher
ESL Writing Activities – Some Tips for the Teacher Even with the most imaginative class preparation or the latest technology, teachers and students are often left with a barrage of […]
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 […]
Teaching in Low Resource Classrooms – Voices of Experience
Book Review: Edited by Richard Smith, Amol Padwad and Deborah Bullock produced by the British Council. This review written by Lina Gordyshevkaya won first prize in a competition for best […]
Learner Autonomy in The Classroom – A Case Study
Learner Autonomy in The Classroom – A Case Study Have you ever realized that some amazing things have happened completely unintentionally during our teaching practice, so spontaneously but yet so […]
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises
ESL Phrasal Verbs Exercises Phrasal verbs are often confusing for students, due to their idiomatic nature. Unfortunately, there is no quick formula for students to learn and understand them. There […]
Teaching English as a Dyslexic
Teaching English as a Dyslexic The probability of your reading the title of this article is still less than the probability that I thought I would ever write it. Unfortunately, […]
Presentation Ideas for ESL Students
Presentation Ideas for ESL Students Imagine a student standing in front of the class delivering a presentation. The student looks out and sees students playing on their smart phones, chatting, […]
Fluency MC – Teaching Phrasal Verbs with Rap
Fluency MC – Teaching Phrasal Verbs with Rap There is virtually no limit to the number of communicative activities you can do with a music video, both in and out of […]