Teaching the Present Tenses
For IELTS students, knowing the basic English tenses is utterly essential. Whether for the...
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Beginning and Ending an IELTS Essay
So you’ve got a writing class coming up. Your students are eager to learn how to master...
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Misconceptions – An ESL Lesson
I was looking for an interest but useful lesson to fill an unexpected class, and I put together...
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Parts of Speech Worksheet
In my IELTS writing classes, I like to start from the beginning – and I mean the very...
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Leadership Lesson
I have created a speaking lesson based upon the topic of leadership, and featuring Simon...
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Christmas Gap-fill Exercise
Here’s a fun ESL activity for Christmas – a gap-fill exercise based upon a song that...
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Christmas Song Lyrics Correction – An ESL Activity
There are just a few more days until Christmas and here’s another great activity for you to...
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Writing Test for Sentence Types and Parallelism
This worksheet provide a good test for your students to find out whether they know the different...
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Upper-Intermediate Reading Task
I recently made this reading lesson for an upper-intermediate group of Chinese students. I think...
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A Balanced Diet – ESL Listening Exercise
Food is one of those magical ESL topics (not to mention a quite common IELTS speaking topic, too)....
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Past Tense Review Lesson – Running Dictation and Guided Discovery
I just did this lesson today with two groups of sophomore university students and it went rather...
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Love/Hate + verb-ing Worksheet
I recently taught a CELTA class about saying whether you like/love/hate etc doing something. The...
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