Some Ideas for Using Lead-Ins in Your Classroom
Do you ever create your own lead-ins? Open most coursebooks and you will notice that new sections often start with one or two questions…
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More Resources for Your Online Teaching
First, there was a delay. Then, there was a decision to go online for two weeks. Now, it looks like I may never actually…
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Mistakes Are Learning Opportunities
When we’re learning a foreign language, we are bound to make mistakes. As a teacher, I encourage my learners to take risks and praise…
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How to Teach IELTS Speaking
In this tutorial you will learn: How to approach teaching IELTS Speaking overall and Part 1, in particular. This will help you to teach…
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners ages 6 – 9
For a teacher trained to teach older children, teaching very young learners is a challenging job. The methods and approaches used when teaching older…
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In Praise of the Humble Checklist
Explicit teaching is good teaching. The less students have to guess in terms of what they are expected to do, the more brainpower they…
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Using Negotiation Role Plays in the English Classroom
Dale Coulter and David Wilson list and describe the five essential characteristics of a successful negotiation role play Roleplay has always been a particularly…
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Teach Your Students to Remember English
By: Jonty Yamisha Breaking Down Steps for Efficient Memorization Memorization isn’t a mysterious practice. One student who can memorize a poem doesn’t necessarily have…
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The Expressive Power of Modal Verbs and Why ESL and EFL Students Avoid Them
By Richard E. McDorman Modal verbs have expressive power far beyond what their simple forms would suggest. I have encountered very view linguistic works…
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Reconsidering Quizlet
In 2017, I co-wrote an article, Quizlet – Create Engaging Vocabulary Study Sets, about the basics of using Quizlet to assist students with vocabulary…
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