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Remember. Understand. Apply. Remember the rules of grammar. Understand what a certain tense means. Apply that knowledge by using that tense to express your experiences or hopes. That’s the gist of teaching English as a second language. Get your students to recognize and remember the language you teach. Understand it, for what good is language if you don’t have any comprehension. And apply th ...

Whether or not you are ready to talk about how you feel, emotions can be a great starting point for some interesting ESL lessons. Watch the movie with your class, and then follow up the screening with one of the following print and go lesson plans. Each gives you multiple ways to use Disney’s popular move “Inside Out” for teaching language concepts. 3 Ready to Go ESL Lessons Based on ...

Communication is key when it comes to language learning. Language is a tool, something we use to make connections with other people around us. And a big part of that connection comes through talking with someone, both one on one and in groups. But sometimes it’s hard to get ESL students talking, and that is never truer than when you are working with young students. While some kids can talk your ea ...

In this virtual world that we live in, jobs aren’t what they used to be. Even teaching jobs. In the past you set up your classroom, decorated the walls, arranged the desks, and made photocopies to your heart’s content getting ready for the first day of school. But today in the world of virtual living, not all teaching comes in a classroom. Not all teaching comes face to face. Sometimes teach ...

“Here’s your new family portrait,” you say. She looks down at the picture. She and her husband and her two children, each holding a phone or tablet, all looking down at the screen, none aware of the others’ presence. She sighs. “Why can’t a family be high tech and still relate to one another?” We find the same struggle in the ESL classroom. When we make a point ...

We are all different. Odds are that if you are teaching English as a second language, you have pretty obvious evidence sitting right in front of you every day. And everyone in your class has probably heard that diversity is good and we need to appreciate the differences between us. It’s surprising that as many times as we hear that how prejudice and injustice can be a part of how we think - withou ...

A teacher desk at the front of the classroom with rows and columns of student desks just doesn’t cut it anymore. The geometric arrangement that teachers have followed for generations was a good one. But we are in a different era now. The things our parents and their parents did don’t work for a postmodern generation full of postmodern students. Times have changed, and our classroom setup has ...