Find Someone Who: 8 Best ESL Activities
Eight find someone who ESL activity variations by grammar point, plus fixes for the three ways this mingle activity usually falls apart.
Eight find someone who ESL activity variations by grammar point, plus fixes for the three ways this mingle activity usually falls apart.
ESL students who stutter need lower-pressure speaking options — advance notice, paired reading, and judgment-free rehearsal that actually helps.
ESL students with anxiety need lower-stakes ways to produce language before they’re asked to perform it live — pair rehearsal before a cold call, a written or recorded option instead of speaking aloud, and a routine predictable enough that the lesson itself stops being a source of dread. The goal isn’t to remove pressure entirely;…
A practical map of ESL teaching certifications, specializations, and markets — so you can choose the cert, niche, and region that actually fit your goals in 2026.
Teaching ESL students with ADHD works best when you chunk instructions into single steps, build movement into every 10-15 minutes of class, and replace long silent-reading stretches with multisensory tasks — TPR, picture cards, short audio clips. Pair that with a visible routine on the board and a non-disruptive fidget option at the desk, and…
Seven timed IELTS speaking drills that target the four criteria examiners actually score — fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
Dyslexic ESL students need multisensory teaching, structured lessons, extra processing time, and the right assistive tech — plus a teacher who can tell dyslexia apart from an ordinary language-acquisition lag.
A practical ESL teacher career guide comparing pay rates, required certifications, and growth opportunities across the world’s top teaching markets — plus the online and beyond-classroom paths most teachers overlook.
The ESA method — Engage, Study, Activate — is a three-stage lesson-planning framework Jeremy Harmer introduced in his 1998 book How to Teach English. Unlike the fixed order of PPP, ESA lets teachers reorder or repeat its three stages using one of three sequences (straight arrows, boomerang, or patchwork) to match what’s actually happening in…
English is full of figurative language for the simple act of talking. We warn people not to beat around the bush, praise someone who hits the nail on the head, and wince when a friend accidentally spills the beans about a surprise party. Communication idioms describe not just what we say, but how carefully —…