ESL Speaking Activities: Two Fun Roleplays
ESL and EFL students often benefit from roleplays: taking on another identity can lessen people’s inhibitions, not to mention be plain old fun. You can also create role plays to practice different...
View ArticleESL Story Telling
Once upon a time… Story telling first and foremost is a speaking activity, something which EFL students nearly everywhere want and need. It’s also quite a practical thing – we are not only in...
View ArticlePositive Feedback At Talkfest In Taiwan
I found this letter to the Taipei Times on why students are silent to raise some interesting issues. Briefly, author Paul Lowe points out that students are often subjected to negative feedback on their...
View ArticleRecording Your Students…
…secretly, and in case they are suspicious, why else? Of course I jest, I’m taking about recording your students to help improve their English. I’ve done it like this: students work in groups to...
View ArticleConversation Classes
Carol at ESL Lesson Plan recently posted some great tips for teaching conversation classes, and it got me thinking about the scope and challenges of this type of class. First of all, what is...
View ArticleTEFL Classroom Games: Hide A Word
It can be a challenge to find games which are both useful and fun for higher level learners that involve speaking fluency. I am eternally grateful to the Inside Out series orienting me to “Hide a...
View ArticleTop 10 TEFL Games And Speaking Activities
Turning English-learning into a game can obviously make things easier on many students and it also helps bring the teacher and the class together. I’ve covered a great many games that should help at...
View ArticleTEFL Skill: Expressing Your Ideas Simply
I think that I’m lucky that so many people want (or need) to learn my language; it means I have a job. It also means that, aside from learning what I can of the local language of whatever country I...
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