English as a Second Language (ESL) Lesson plans & ideas for teachers: eslflow index & home page Love Stories for Learners in Simple English (Stories, Glossary, Exercises, Answer Key) Here you can find beautiful stories in simple English for you to read, download and practice. Read interesting stories and improve your English at the same time. Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses The following stories are suitable for students at an advanced reading level. Story Glossary Exercises Fill in the blanks Vocabulary questions Grammar questions Comprehension questions Essay questions Full answer key You can read and practice with these stories by yourself or with your students, and then check your answers. Please also fill out the short survey at the end of each story to let us know which future stories and exercises you would like to see here. A Tale of Two Jackets (Story + Exercises + Answer Key) Andrew walks out of his meeting, completely exhausted. The Show Must Go On (Story + Exercises + Answer Key) The stage lights shine brightly on Cho's face. Snowy Day (Story + Exercises + Answer Key) Ghost Poems, Parts 1 and 2
everythingESL: The K-12 ESL Resource from Judie Haynes 25 ideas for using WhatsApp with English language students | Oxford University Press Philip Haines is the Senior Consultant for Oxford University Press, Mexico. As well as being a teacher and teacher trainer, he is also the co-author of several series, many of which are published by OUP. Today he joins us to provide 25 engaging and useful classroom activities for language learners using WhatsApp. There are three main obstacles to the use of technology in ELT. WhatsApp or similar messaging services can help overcome these obstacles. Many self-confessed, techno-phobic teachers that I know use WhatsApp on a regular basis in their private lives, so already feel quite comfortable with it. Here are 25 ideas of how to make good use of WhatsApp for language learning. Like this: Like Loading...
LearnEnglish Teens | British Council 6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills. Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework. On the other hand, I am one of those teachers who think reading aloud in class is a good exercise. Reading aloud fluently not only helps to improve the reading ability, but also oral expression.It gives students a chance to focus only on fluency, pronunciation and intonation as they don’t need to worry about grammatical accuracy.It gives teachers a nice opportunity to correct pronunciation mistakes.It helps students enhance comprehension as pauses should be made in the correct places.Reading aloud is especially good for students who don’t feel very confident speaking English in public. 1.
Smartphones & Learning possibilities in the EFL class Some data on mobile usage growth 21st century classroom infographic Six hours a day. That’s how much time the average teenager spends online, according to a June 2013 study by McAfee. Mobile devices & Learning purpose When designing a class for students of English as a foreign language, it is certainly a current practice to have the communicative goals and cultural aspects tailored to meet the students’ needs. The use of the tech resource is not supposed to replace that, it comes as a helping and engaging tool. Allow me to share findings from my classroom experience over the course of four years. I teach mostly teenagers and adult learners in a language school environment. I have witnessed that their engagement and interest is huge. Apps for Classroom use Learner training From personal experience, I recommend you share the intention of inserting the use of smartphone in some phases of the lessons and the purpose in doing so.
BBC Learning English | Grammar Challenge abcteach: Free printable educational resources for teachers, homeschool families, and parents.