Learn English Speaking, Basic: Week 7

April 9, 2016 by eslwriter

Learn English Speaking

Here is the plan for this week to help ESL students learn English speaking skills.

It’s a short week because of the holiday on Wednesday. So, my ESL students have just one class to learn English responses for the conversation exam questions.

Please note: all exam questions are given in random order. Students do not choose which questions they answer.

Part 1. Look like and like

You will have 1 or 2 questions from this section. Long answers with full sentences and details are suggested.

More Sponge Activities to Teach English

September 18, 2017April 3, 2016 by eslwriter

Sponge Activities that Teach English

Teaching English requires a panoply of skills. One of them is preparation. ESL teachers need a good supply of ready to go materials when the inevitable surprise comes up. Like when a lesson finishes early and you want to fill a gap with a useful activity.

Consider adding these 5 activities to your collection of back pocket activities, fun language-focused exercises, video lessons and pair work discussion builders that require little prep.

Most of the activities are geared towards a conversation class (high beginner+), but can easily be adapted for writing classes with some imagination.

ESL Speaking Activity – Scary Stories

October 23, 2016November 23, 2015 by eslwriter

Scary Stories

This ESL conversation activity helps students learn English speaking skills by retelling a story. Memorization is a small part of this task, but more importantly, students need to be able to retell the key parts and fill in the details with their own words.

ESL Fluency Activities

February 13, 2016October 19, 2015 by eslwriter

ESL Fluency Activities

Fluency, basically, is an ability to perform a language task faster. Helping ESL students improve language fluency is an important challenge for teachers. Of course most ESL students need to read, speak and write with better accuracy; they also need to perform these communication skills with alacrity. The job of the language teacher, then, is to help students progress to the point where mundane aspects of language production become automatic.

Below are three fluency building activities that can help students improve language processing speeds and, if continued over time, make progress toward the broader goal of automaticity.