How to Teach English

Free resources for the ESL Classroom: Activities & Games, Lesson Plans, Classroom Management, Teaching Different Levels, and more…

TESOL: Preparing a Writing Lesson Plan

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Lesson Planning
June 15, 2022

Writing, unlike speaking, is not an ability we acquire naturally, even in our first language:…

TESOL: Using Songs with Adult Learners

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Authentic Material
September 11, 2023

Why teach English with songs? Songs are an excellent tool for students to have fun…

Engaging Writing Activity for EPIK Teachers to Supplement Cheonjae Grade 5 Textbook

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Using a Textbook
June 2, 2022

In the EPIK program in South Korea, for every three hours of ESL speaking and…

How to Teach English with Songs

7 min read
Authentic Material
September 11, 2023

First of all, why use songs in the ESL classroom? When we consider that almost…

Teach Grammar Using The Communicative Approach: Functions and Structures

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Communicative Approach, Teaching Grammar
March 22, 2024

This article on teaching grammar focuses on “functions”, what this word means in methodology jargon, and how we can identify functions through context. This article also introduces the connection between function and structure and how these concepts are combined in a grammar ESL lesson that follows the Communicative Approach.

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