Is your teaching style or personality similar to one of the famous teachers? Let’s find out! Which famous teacher are you? Share your results with your friends! Maria Montessori Maria Montessori was an Italian educator and originator of the educational system that bears her name. The Montessori system is based…
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Conversation Questions: Future Tenses
The focus of this activity is to practice grammar while speaking. These conversation questions with future tenses will help the students better understand when to use various future tenses. When we want to talk about the future we can use these tenses/structures: We can use the Present Simple when we…
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Role-play Scenarios for ESL: Discussing Different Topics and Situations, Even Vaccination!
What is a role-play scenario? Role-play is any speaking activity when you either put yourself into somebody else’s shoes, or when you stay in your own shoes but put yourself into an imaginary situation, also called a scenario! I put together my favorite role-play scenarios and speaking activities which I…
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Phrasal Verbs Activity and Exercises, Conversation Questions and PDF Worksheet
I sometimes watch, or more accurately, watched (because Covid) Netflix with friends. We always use English subtitles, as my friends want to improve their English. Sometimes they ask me to translate a word or a phrase, sometimes I don’t mind and sometimes it bothers me. But my lack of patience…
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ESL Presentation Topics: 12 Mini Presentations
ESL presentation topics for intermediate and upper intermediate students. Great as a warm-up or a speaking lesson. You can use the slideshow and share your screen on Zoom or other app when teaching online. Just click on the full screen option in the top right corner of the slideshow. I…
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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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ESL Exam Speaking Picture Description and Questions
This ESL exam speaking task based on picture description and questions will help students prepare for a number of international exams, as well as local school leaving examinations – e.g. Matura. In many English exams including FCE students will have to talk about/describe pictures. The format varies, the examination paper…
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Engaging Online Teaching: ESL Activities and Games
Here are a couple of ideas for online teaching ESL activities and games that can be assigned to students so they can work independently as well as used during your video meeting. 1. Artist in your own home Students have to take 10 photos of anything they consider beautiful. You…
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Conversation Questions: Present Perfect and Past Simple
Present perfect vs. simple past Present Perfect Simple Past Simple Unfinished actions that started in the past and continue to the present: I‘ve known my wife for fifteen years (and I still know her). Finished actions: I knew my friend Anne for fifteen years (but then she moved abroad and we lost touch)….
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What It Means to Be a Modern Online Educator
By Dr. Bruce A. Johnson Traditional college instruction is part of a well-established tradition that has remained fairly unchanged over time. Becoming an instructor in this environment has meant conformity to teaching standards that have also remained fairly unchanged. A college professor is associated with someone who is a subject matter…