How To Learn English Tips and ideas on the best ways to learn English faster. Tips for Beginners You are like a new babyBabies learn their language slowly.First they learn to listen.Then they learn to speak.Finally, they can read and write.Listen to English every dayListen to English radio.Watch English TV.Go to English movies.Use online lessons.Make an English/ESL friendMake up conversations.Practise dialogues.Use beginner textbooks.Read English storiesStart with children's storybooks.Try ESL readers.Read advertisements, signs and labels.Try EnglishClub.com for Young Learners.Write down new wordsStart a vocabulary (new word) notebook.Write words in alphabetical order (A...B...C...).Make example sentences.Always use an English-English dictionary first.Keep an English diaryStart with one sentence.How do you feel?How is the weather? Why do you want to learn English? Set goalsIf you know why you want to study, setting goals is easy. Make an agendaHow long do you need to study to achieve your goals? It's simple.
ESL First Day Introduction Games Here is an entertaining way to get students to introduce themselves to the class. This introduction game works best with young learners. Begin the game by saying, "I'm the captain of a spaceship. I'm going on a trip to the moon. Who wants to go with me and what are you going to bring?" Then, write the following sentence on the board for the students to say: Hi, my name is... and I'm going to bring a/an/some... Language In Use It is great to show and offer students many examples of English language in use. Meaning, students appreciate that there are many ways to say the same thing and like to see the "nuance" of the English language. Here are some images showing different ways / expressions to communicate a similar thing. Might be handy. Also, view as a slideshow or you can purchase and edit in ppt. If interested in this kind of approach, you might be interested in my ebook "Get TALKing" which has 28 lessons all based around language chunks.
Ice breaking activity: My life star – Tim's Free English Lesson Plans Thanks to my Spanish teacher Montse for this activity. This is a good activity for the first class of a course to break the ice. The students learn a bit about their teacher and then about each other. It is suitable for levels A2 – C2. You will need this handout: Preparation: Draw or project the star from the handout on to the board. Lesson plan: Tell the students that each point represents something important from your life. “Fido” could / might be his dog’s name. When they have finish have them put forward their ideas, tell them if they are right or wrong and explain a little about each subject. Put the students in pairs or threes and give out the handout. Students change partners or groups. Wrap up: At the end of the class have the students recall as much of the information they learned about you as possible. freeenglishlessonplans.com Like this: Like Loading...
Teach 9 irregular verbs in one lesson It is much more memorable to teach or learn irregular verbs in a story. The verbs, especially their meaning, are easier to remember and retrieve from memory. Moreover, teaching verbs in a story is fun. In this post there are several activities: a mind map, a worksheet, an MP3 drill and an interactive quiz. These activities will make the teaching and learning enjoyable and fun. Irregular verbs – infographics Here is the picture of the story: Print version of the story and tasks:past simple story_fishing full Here, you can print out the mind map with all the irregular verbs. Once you think that you know the verbs you can try out the following interactive quiz. MP3 drill Listen say the word that belongs there instead of the beep. Irregular verbs – mp3 drill The worksheet contains the grammar up activity. If you like this activity and you would like to use in either on your website or in a classroom without an internet connection, you can do so by downloading the files here:
Habits and routines: a flip book. By having students draw a hint next to each day of the week, this weekly routine flip book can effectively become the basis for a speaking activity in which students make guesses about their classmates’ routines and then check them by reading the sentences inside. A good way to practise the present simple in the affirmative, negative and interrogative, adverbs of frequency and everyday life actions. 1. The students make their own flip book first: 2. For each day of the week, the students write two or three sentences using adverbs of frequency or time expressions. Paper, scissors, new words Daily routines: writing a report Like this: Like Loading...
How To Use Delicious For My Business? | Social Media In 7 Minutes How to Use Delicious Delicious is a pretty new social media platform with a brand new way for people to share what they are surfing, particularly their bookmarks, which are the sites that they frequent the most, so before we go into how to use Delicious lets take a look at what it is exactly first. How to Use Delicious | What’s Its Purpose? Delicious describes itself as a Social Bookmarking service. When I first browsed Delicious’s homepage it looked pretty similar to Digg, but after further speculation I began to see why learning how to use Delicious was essential. How to Use Delicious | What Can You Do With Delicious? Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere Instead of having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers. Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web How to Use Delicious | Two Great Tips
Icebreakers Here are a few icebreakers and some variations to the icebreakers to try during the first week of school to build a good sense of community in your classroom that will last throughout the year! 1Name Chain GamesBy far and away the best way to learn and retain student names is to do a name chain game to start off the class. You can vary the specifics to fit the needs of your particular class, but my class usually goes like this: the first student says 1) his or her name, 2) his or her home country, 3) one interesting fact about himself or herself, and 4) his or her favorite English word. The next student must then repeat all of the information about himself or herself and then say the name and favorite English word of the preceding student. The first day of school can be stressful for everyone, but these icebreakers will help you and your students get to know each other in a fun, interactive way to help build the classroom environment all year long!
Infografías de inglés Infografías de inglés He reunido mis 50 infografías favoritas en un solo PDF. EL PDF incluye temas de expresiones y collocations, lecciones varias y gramática. Te dejo el índice para que veas lo que te puedes llevar por solo 2.99€. (Pincha en la foto para agrandarla) Si te interesa comprar el eBook 50 INFOGRAFÍAS DE SILA INGLÉS, pincha aquí abajo donde pone (BUY NOW). Si quieres mis PDFs (120 páginas), 20 temas de vocabulario, verbos, expresiones, etc (incluído el tema de este post)…reuniditos en un solo PDF, pincha aquí. En esta sección encontrarás infografías de distintos temas de inglés: trucos, gramática, vocabulario, etc. Solo tienes que pinchar en la foto que adjunto bajo el tema y la tendrás en su tamaño original. Enjoy! 1) Separar las sílabas en inglés 2) Tiempos verbales en inglés 3) Usos y expresiones con “HAND” 4) Trucos para mejorar tu inglés gratis 5) Expresar alegría en inglés 6) Errores típicos al hablar inglés 7) Expresión: mad as a hatter 8) Cuándo se usa WHAT y cuándo WHICH
35 ways to introduce your lesson topic Are you fed up with using the same old methods to introduce your lesson topic? Look no further! Here are 35 ways to kick off your lesson. How many have you tried? Using an anecdote Example topic: idioms You know I play football, right? “can I help you?” And I’m “yeah. She says “They’re £500” And I said “£500???? Here’s some example flashcards I made for teaching idioms. Cuisenaire Rods creation Example topic: Tourist attractions Give each pair of students a bunch of Cuisenaire rods. “Work in pairs. Students then look at each model and guess the attraction. Cuisenaire Rods model Create your own model using rods. (Here is my example of the UK political parties and their share of the vote, for a recent lesson on politics) Musical “Guess the topic” Example topic: family and relationships Think of 3 or 4 songs which in some way reference the theme/topic of your lesson Avril Lavigne – Skater Boi (“he was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?”) The Hollies – He ain’t heavy (he’s my brother)
untitled Writers Write is your one-stop resource for writers. Use these 45 ways to avoid using the word ‘very’ to improve your writing. Good writers avoid peppering their writing with qualifiers like ‘very’ and ‘really’. They are known as padding or filler words and generally add little to your writing. According to Collins Dictionary: ‘Padding is unnecessary words or information used to make a piece of writing or a speech longer. Synonyms include: waffle, hot air, verbiage, wordiness.’ Adding modifiers, qualifiers, and unnecessary adverbs and adjectives, weakens your writing. This post gives you 45 ways to avoid using the padding word ‘very’. Three Telling Quotes About ‘Very’ “Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. If you enjoyed this, you will love: Top Tip: If you want to learn how to write a book, sign up for our online course. by Amanda Patterson © Amanda Patterson
10 English jokes to make learning English fun. Laughter is the best medicine Jokes are an essential part of any language and culture and are a great way of understanding the target language through the play on words and a culture’s sense of humour. The English Language is filled with witty, clever jokes that illustrate the play on words such as homophones, double entendre and puns like this: Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now. Every evening I share a joke on my Facebook Page under the title of Evening Fun. “I’m not sure that’s what they mean by now reduce the wine” 1. 2. Source: English is Fun 3. 4. Source: The Spectator 5. 6. 7. Source: Dawn French Fan Page 8. 9. Source: Woodward English 10. For more jokes, do take a look at the English Club. If you liked this post please share it. Have a great weekend, folks. Ciao for now Shanthi