Games Involving Listening and Speaking in English
We’ve probably all heard about Gen X and Y, and the soon to become adult Gen Z age groups, But does generational group really make a difference …
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ESL Fun Activities for Talking About Dating
Dating is a fun topic to tackle in an adult ESL class. This articles gives you some starters for ESL fun activities for talking about dating and using …
Continue ReadingUsing a Dialogue Discourse Analysis to Teach Connected Speech in English
To find out more on just how teaching connected speech elements can improve the conversational speech and pronunciation of English as a foreign …
Continue ReadingTeaching Semantic Meaning to English Students
Semantics is a subfield of linguistics that refers to the study of meaning in a language. This English lesson plan outlines how and what to teach …
Continue ReadingTeaching English: Phrasal Verbs ESL Lesson Plan
Phrasal verbs are a verb form unique to Germanic languages including the English language. This English phrasal verbs ESL lesson plan includes the …
Continue ReadingThree Perfect Tense Verb Exercises for ESL Learners
Help your students to get rid of mistakes using the English Perfect tense, with these simple ESL Grammar exercises for the Perfect tense.
Continue ReadingSix ESL Vocabulary Activity Ideas for Beginner Students
A major part of communication in learning a new language is accumulating a base amount of vocabulary. Help your students get messages across by …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach ESL Progressive Tenses
The following ESL progressive tenses lesson plan can be used by English teachers to introduce the progressive and perfect-progressive aspects in the …
Continue ReadingHow to Teach Perfect Tenses: ESL Education
The following perfect tenses ESL lesson plan can be used by ESL and EFL teachers to introduce the perfect and perfect-progressive aspects in the …
Continue ReadingUnusual Formations of English Verbs: The Auxiliary Verbs "Be Going to" and "Be Fixing to"
Auxiliary verbs are verbs that combine with other verbs to provide information about grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and voice. This article explains …
Continue ReadingForming New Words: Coinages, Nonce Words, English Loanwords and Calques
Creating new words in English, covers the related word formation processes of coinages, nonce words, borrowing, and calquing.
Continue ReadingWord Formation - Compounding Words, Blending and Clipping
The word formation processes of compounding, clipping, and blending are important concepts when creating words. Also included for download are …
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