Teaching students how to use video at home
One of the best ways to take advantage of video in the ESL classroom is to offer students a host of techniques that can be used outside...
To Pair or not to Pair: Part Six: Pair-work Alone or with the Curriculum
Finally, some general, concluding thoughts on how to fit pair-work into your class. Pair-work as a stand-alone activity Pair work is an...
To Pair or Not to Pair: Part Five -- Class Structure
Now that you've got the basic things prepared (classroom, characters, props and student attitude), you'll want to make very clear to your...
To Pair or Not to Pair: Part Four: The Bag of Props
This will probably be the most useful and fun object you have for the pair-work exercises. The bag of props The word “prop” in theatrical...
To Pair or Not to Pair: Part Three: Stock Characters
In this part I concentrate on the development of characters that your students can (and should!) pretend to be, so that it is not them...
To Pair or Not to Pair: Part Two: Setting Up
Second part of that long blog post on working in pairs. It begins with the physical setup of your classroom, then continues with the...
To Pair or not to Pair: Pair-work in the ESL Classroom: Part One
Here's a series I tried to guest post elsewhere; however, it was just too long and involved for the needs of that blog. So, I'm posting...
Sentence structure and substitution techniques in language learning
Most languages have a basic structure that can be recognized, learned and taken advantage of when learning to speak them. This structure...
How to create a useful language learning journal
A language learning journal is a study tool that is often helpful in developing habits and keeping record of your achievements while...
Warming Up: Your Mouths / Warming Up: Your Minds
I’ve combined these two themes mainly because they are pretty simple, each of them, to discuss. In addition, I believe that they should...
