It’s almost here! Our students’ favorite holiday! Halloween! Ok, not everyone loves Halloween, but it’s a perfect opportunity to have a little fun in the classroom. There are plenty of various activities online and for those who don’t like crafts and are not particularly artsy (as myself) I’ve put together…
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Food and Travel ESL Lesson: Interactive Online Lesson
In this food and travel ESL lesson students will discuss their travel experience and plans. They will watch a ten-minute video and learn about different etiquette rules. We can’t travel anywhere(even if we can, it’s still very limited) because of the current Covid-19 pandemic, however, there are plenty of activities…
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Halloween ESL Video Lesson: Simone Giertz Made a Soup Robot
A girl made a soup robot. How is this an ESL video lesson? Wait and see. Simone Giertz is amazing. What? You don’t know her? She does some crazy stuff and is super funny. Check out some of her stuff. View this post on Instagram I built a musical instrument…
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Digital and Online Teaching Resources for Teachers Who Teach English from Home
I put together a list of free digital and online teaching resources, or resources that now offer premium features for free, that might be useful now when many teachers are overwhelmed by the sudden shift to online teaching, for which many of us aren’t prepared due to the consequences of…
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10 ESL Netflix Shows to Watch With Your Students
Video lessons are an engaging and fun way to teach vocabulary, grammar, listening and culture to various age groups and levels. However, sometimes you just want to use an interesting video as a filler or a discussion material without any preparation. Sometimes there is no time for printing the lessons…
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ESL Video Lesson Based on Netflix Docuseries “The Mind, Explained”
This ESL Netflix video lesson plan is based on “The Mind, Explained” docuseries that answers the questions about our brains. What is going on inside my head? How does memory work? Why do I dream? The show has six episodes: Memory, Dreams, Anxiety, Mindfulness, Psychedelics. Each twenty-minute episode explains the…