Activity

A Balanced Diet – ESL Listening Exercise

Food is one of those magical ESL topics (not to mention a quite common IELTS speaking topic, too). Students love…

9 years ago

Snow Day: An ESL Lesson feat. The Simpsons

Today I woke up to a thick blanket of snow across my university campus. It's the first time I've seen…

9 years ago

Running Dictation for Shopping Lesson

I love using running dictation in my classes. I don't do it often, because that would ruin its effect, but…

9 years ago

Fun ESL Intonation Activity

Here's a great activity for teaching your students to speak more naturally. I've found, over my many years of teaching…

9 years ago

ESL Activity: The Price is Right

Today I was teaching my students how to say numbers. They're in university and have quite a high level of…

9 years ago

ESL Auction Game

I used this activity with two different groups of students yesterday and it worked perfectly. They absolutely loved it, and…

9 years ago

Job Application Task

I made this for my final CELTA class. It's a fake newspaper jobs page. I wanted my students to write…

9 years ago

Love/Hate + verb-ing Worksheet

I recently taught a CELTA class about saying whether you like/love/hate etc doing something. The grammar is pretty simple. subject…

9 years ago