How to Use While-Listening Activities in the ESL Classroom
Pre-listening exercises help activate student schema prior to listening lessons. Post-listening activities are useful for…
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Free resources for the ESL Classroom: Activities & Games, Lesson Plans, Classroom Management, Teaching Different Levels, and more…
Why Asking Obvious Questions Is Useful in ESL Classrooms
Sometimes, as English language teachers we may feel like we’re asking some pretty silly questions.…
Top-Down Approach to Teaching Listening Skills
In the world outside the classroom, students will be asked to do things. They’ll need…
Teaching Listening: The Basics of the Bottom-Up Approach
In a previous blog, we addressed the differences between a bottom-up approach to ESL listening…
Communicative Approaches to Teaching Listening
For many of us, listening is a lateral skill that we don’t always prioritize when…
How to Create Listening Lessons Using ELLLO Mixers
As teaching listening classes can be challenging, especially when you’re not sure how to do…
Using Technology To Teach Young Learners
In our modern-day and age, technology is everywhere. We use it daily both in our…
8 Ways To Help ESL Students Improve Their English
How often have you heard that question as a teacher? Over the years, for me,…
Lessons on the Fly—Writing ESL Lessons from Video Clips
The use of video seems to be exponentially replacing the use of text in social…
Lessons on the Fly – Creating Dialogue from Small Talk
In today’s blog, we’re going to introduce a new short series on how to make…