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Teaching Second Conditionals Through Absurd Sentences
Elena Shvidko
The second conditional (e.g., If I were, I would…) often causes difficulties even for advanced English learners. This fun and interactive activity will help learners practice this structure. The first part of the activity gives learners a chance to interact … Continue reading
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Literature in ELT: Integrating Literature into Language Learning
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A Guest Post by Sybil Marcus Sybil Marcus has lived and worked on four continents. She taught ESL at the University of California at Berkeley Extension and at the Summer English Language Studies on the Berkeley campus. She has presented at … Continue reading
Infographics for ELT: Content Knowledge and Language Development
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A Guest Post by Gabriela Kleckova Gabriela Kleckova, chair of the Department of English at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia in Plzen, the Czech Republic, is a university professor, language teacher, teacher trainer, researcher, consultant, and materials developer. She is … Continue reading
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Fluency and Accuracy Activities: Striking a Balance
Rob Sheppard
In everyday usage, fluent is often used interchangeably with proficient, as in, He’s pretty fluent in Arabic. But in language teaching, fluency is a bit more technical and just one component of language proficiency, often discussed in tandem with accuracy: … Continue reading
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Tagged as adult education, adult ESL, classroom activity, classroom practice, evergreen, fluency, Robert Sheppard, speaking activity, teaching speaking
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Getting to Know Each Other Through a Single Word
Elena Shvidko
During the first week of classes, it is important to establish a warm and collaborative atmosphere in the classroom and help students to get to know each other. Surely, there are a lot of “getting-to-know-you” activities and icebreakers that teachers … Continue reading
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Discussing Global Warming and Climate Change in ELT
Alexandra Lowe
Several recent posts have explored the theme of how best to broach controversial news topics in ESL classes: “Controversy in Adult Conversation” and “Discussing Same-Sex Marriage in ELT: A Survey Approach.” Despite warnings from a colleague that ESL students, in his … Continue reading
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Readers Theater: A Superfood for Oral Skills
Karen Taylor de Caballero
When it comes to preparing courses and lessons, we all know we need to provide learners with a healthy diet of nutritious classroom activities that promote practice, improvement, and achievement. In this sense, Readers Theater (RT) is a superfood, an activity chock … Continue reading
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Discussing Same-Sex Marriage in ELT: A Survey Approach
Alexandra Lowe
One of my goals as an instructor in an intensive English program (IEP) has been to encourage my students to pay more attention to the news in the United States. (See “Producing Newscasts for the ESL Classroom“) When students watch the … Continue reading