Vocabulary

Prepare: After your students have been given a few lessons on adjective clauses and they are ready to start constructing their own clauses, bring in empty bottles, boxes and packaging ...

We teach be able to as well as can/could. Students need it to talk about future ability. But there are interesting twists in present-time and past-time situations as well. Requests ...

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 ...

Students struggle with prepositions at all levels, but verb + preposition combinations can be especially frustrating. Here is another exciting and engaging game using charades for meaningful spoken practice along ...

Phrasal verbs are difficult to learn; they may be separated or not, change meaning depending upon usage, share the same particles, and are virtually countless. Thus, memorizing them can be ...

Building vocabulary is critical to successful language learning, but it doesn’t have to be a painful process. If students discover how to make meaningful flashcards and use them in creative, ...

Everyone is talking about the academic word list… in reading classes. But why stop there? AWL words put a spark in students’ eyes wherever they appear.  Students recognize that these ...

At some point, most ESOL teachers have been faced with this question from a perplexed student, “What’s the difference between ‘watch’, ‘look’, and ‘see’?” Rather than confuse students with abstract ...