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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 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, ...
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, ...
In this article teachers will learn about a simple classroom activity designed to assess student comfort with future tenses while providing practice talking about future plans and predictions. One challenge ...
Texting is a part of student life. Learn how to incorporate texting into your lesson plans and show your students when texting language is and is not appropriate. Accepting ...
Another occupies a strange territory between grammar and vocabulary. This makes it fairly easy to present, but it can be difficult to check and tricky to practice. The following activity ...
Teaching prepositions of location to beginning level learners lends itself to fun, interactive activities. One activity that my students have always enjoyed is creating and explaining their own drawings. Here’s ...
Students at the more advanced level often have difficulty using the verb forms and meaning in conditional sentences. Unreal conditionals present a greater challenge in particular. Here’s a set of ...
This activity encourages reading and writing skills while giving students a chance to practice fluency, editing, and revising. It can be adapted to work with students from high beginning to ...