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Teaching English

September 18, 2017May 19, 2015 by eslwriter

Teaching English & Thinking

Teaching English just got a little easier with three ebooks from ESL Publications. These low-prep, high-interest logic puzzles, word games and trivia challenges help ESL students learn vocabulary and general knowledge while improving listening, speaking and critical thinking skills at the same time.

1. 160 Logic Puzzles and Word Games

Every good teacher has a stable of back pocket activities to fill unexpected gaps. They are called sponge activities. These 30 worksheets with 160 logic puzzles and word games are awesome sponge activities – time savers, not time fillers – because they frame language learning as a puzzle, challenge.

Learn English Writing – Odds & Ends

February 28, 2016May 5, 2015 by eslwriter

TEACH ESL WRITING

This picture reminds me that good teaching helps students paint pictures with words. It moves students to tell stories. Even low level students can produce marvelous work with the right feedback and support.

Teachers also need support. To that end, here are a few writing ideas, lessons and activities. Maybe good teachers can kind something useful to help their students create something marvelous.

Learn English Writing – Progress and Movement

May 20, 2015May 5, 2015 by eslwriter

PURPOSE OF WRITING ACTIVITY

learn English writing sentences about change

This activity helps students learn English writing sentences about change, to control progress, movement or action in a paragraph or short story. It also helps students improve their ability to describe things with accuracy and style.

Students will write a story with four different people. Each person does something different, but these actions must evolve or progress. They become bigger, better, worse, happier, stronger, scarier, or deadlier. The student chooses the kind of change that happens.

Learn English Writing, Basic Class: Week 9

May 5, 2015April 27, 2015 by eslwriter

Last week the ESL students had a mid-term exam. Let’s review some of the questions and answers to help them learn English writing.

Part 1. Read the paragraph. The paragraph has 10 mistakes. Circle the mistakes then rewrite the paragraph.

my sisters home on Jefferson Street is terrably noisey every five minutes or so a monster jet takes off from the nearby