5 tips that will help you teach speaking successfully Whether you are teaching an actual English conversation class or you integrate speaking activities in your everyday curriculum, how to actually teach speaking may still be a daunting task for you. We speak for different purposes: to persuade, to inform, to demonstrate or to entertain. Just…
Subject-verb agreement is one of those things: if you don’t use it correctly, it may appear that you don’t know English. How many times have you heard your students say something like this: “People in my class thinks that our teacher is cool” or “John and Mary is at the mall right now”? Yes, my friends,…
How many times have you had complete silence for an answer when you asked your English learners a question? I thought so. Speaking is a productive skill that requires manipulation of language. In order to speak, one must know some vocabulary and the basics of how to put words in a sentence. It may be…
Multi-level English learners in one classroom. That’s the name of the game, especially when you work with older students. Multi-level ESL classrooms provide advantages for English learners, where they have opportunities to interact with each other and learn language through practice and negotiating meaning. At the same time, teaching a multi-level classroom is challenging for…
Assess ESL students informally Assessment is an important part of teaching. That said, how to assess ESL students? Often, we work with multiple levels, needs and age groups of ESL students. In our state, we have a big state assessment once a year but the results come back at the end of the school year,…
Speaking and writing activities for ESL beginners and intermediate level students Speaking and writing are the productive aspects of a language. They are also much more difficult to master because one needs to retrieve the information they already have and present it to the listener or reader. I see this all the time: a student…