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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ESL Discussions
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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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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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No Time? 10 No-prep ESL Activities, Warm-ups and Energizers
Sometimes I don’t have time or energy to print extra resources or activities. Some days, like today, the printer in my office runs out of ink, the printer in the common area is jammed and while two colleagues are trying to repair it, I quietly leave to copy some activities…
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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…
ESL Games
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Balderdash: ESL Speaking Game
Balderdash is a word bluffing game in which you write definitions for weird words. The definitions may or may not be correct. The ESL variation of the game is played very similarly. The PDF which you can download below, contains words that are balderdash, or nonsense. At least they seem…