Do You Need Excellent Grammar Skills to Teach English?
I started teaching in 2008 and for three years I basically taught young children the absolute...
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Free IELTS Resources for Teachers
On this website, I have posted many activities, lesson plans, and resources for IELTS teachers....
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Phones in the ESL Classroom: Good or Bad?
Unless you’re teaching kindergarten, you’re probably more than aware of the difficulties of...
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Teaching ESL in 2020
Good lord, look at the date – January 7th, 2020… It hardly seems real, does it? It is not only the...
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Free Writing – a great way to start an ESL writing lesson
About six years ago I was on a teacher training course and the instructor made a suggestion that...
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Free IELTS Reading Practice
It’s been a long time since I actually posted some IELTS resources on this website. These...
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Is There a Future in Teaching ESL and IELTS?
Will there be robot teachers in future? Robot teachers in the classroom: It may sound like science...
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How to Teach IELTS Speaking Skills
Teaching speaking skills for English, or for IELTS in general, is one of the most fun and...
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How to Find the Best ESL and IELTS Jobs
I was travelling in the United States this summer and wherever I went, people would ask me where I...
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How to Create Good Reading Lessons [for ESL and IELTS]
Let’s face it: creating interesting reading lessons for ESL or IELTS classes can be boring… really...
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How to Help Advanced ESL and IELTS Students
Me teaching elementary students in South Korea. When I first started teaching, long ago, I was...
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Knowing When to Leave your ESL Job
Last year, at the beginning of December, I decided it was time to leave my ESL job in China. I had...
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