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...

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...

Now that you've got the basic things prepared (classroom, characters, props and student attitude), you'll want to make very clear to your...

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...

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...

Second part of that long blog post on working in pairs. It begins with the physical setup of your classroom, then continues with the...

By using a comprehensive approach towards teaching English pronunciation, the teacher can create a basis for many of the tasks in the ESL...

So, let’s take an example I gave on that forum mentioned a couple of posts ago: the word “hello”. Most of our students will be quite...

Now, let’s take a look at another take on “listening”, this one from an online ESL website with fairly regular activity. On this page on...

Now, in my first posting on this subject, I presented two, well-known activities related to “listening”: the taped conversation, listened...