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Looking around for a past-tense context for practicing with the passive, I happened upon an article on John Dillinger, the notorious mid-20th century gangster.  Bingo!  There were so many passive ...

The basic grammar of yes/no questions and information questions are among the first things students learn in English class. But learning isn’t necessarily doing. Even relatively advanced students still write ...

The 15 most common verbs are all irregular. This means that students have to memorize the forms of the verbs they will encounter most often. Here’s a fun game to ...

Yes, the ESL classroom is leading the way in group and pair work. We have students sit together to create dialogs, solve puzzles, peer edit, and discuss, discuss, discuss. However, ...

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Put students in groups of 3 to 4 and have them place items from their pockets or bags onto the table/desk where they are sitting.  Students can then use this, ...

When you teach adverbs of manner, you need to deal with some possible confusion: Many adverbs of manner don’t end in –ly. Students know fast, fine, right, late, hard, and ...

Every Class is Different Every class has its own personality. Some groups are so full of enthusiasm that they fuel dynamic lessons that end quickly. Other groups seem subdued; they ...

In journalism classes reporters famously learn to answer “the reporter’s six”– who, what, when, where, why, and how. (We can safely ignore whither and wherefore.) These also happen to be ...

There’s a valid reason why mind mapping and graphic organizers have been used in classrooms for years. They improve learning by engaging students in analyzing and organizing information. Make the ...