The past perfect tense uses had + past participle to mark the earlier of two past events — “She had finished the report before her boss asked for it.” Use it only when the order of two past actions would otherwise be unclear, and switch back to simple past for everything else. Most ESL students…
Some of the most common English idioms aren’t about weather, animals, or money — they’re about the strange, slippery way our own minds work. When a name is on the tip of your tongue but won’t come out, or an old song suddenly rings a bell you didn’t know you still had, English reaches for…
📄 Download Printable PDF Worksheet Free, classroom-ready, one click — includes answer key on page 3. Reading Worksheet — Elementary (C) | tahricteaches.com Today, almost everyone has a device like a phone or a tablet. People use these devices for work, school, and fun. Many people look at a screen for many hours every day….
TOEIC test prep works best when you stop treating it as a grammar course and start treating it as a workplace-English speed drill. Students need targeted practice with the test’s seven parts, a vocabulary bank built from business and office contexts (not academic texts), and timed reps that train pacing — the TOEIC’s 45-minute Listening…
Newsela for ESL teachers means one news article delivered at five different reading levels, so a class with students reading three or four grades apart can all discuss the same current event. The free tier, Newsela Lite, gives you one leveled article a week; the full Pro toolkit — quizzes, writing prompts, and the student…
Pear Deck for ESL teachers in 2026: the built-in translation toolbox for English learners, real pricing, and where it still falls short.
The TOEFL speaking test now runs two tasks in about eight minutes: Listen and Repeat, where students echo seven sentences with zero planning time, and Take an Interview, where they answer four questions on one topic in 45-second bursts. ETS scores all eleven items by AI on a 1.0–6.0 band scale, weighting pronunciation, fluency, and…
ESL parent-teacher conferences work best when the teacher books a real interpreter in advance, sends home a short agenda in the family’s language, and spends the first two minutes building trust before talking about grades. Skip the student-as-translator shortcut and the rushed 10-minute slot, and attendance and follow-through both improve. The rest comes down to…
Trauma-informed ESL teaching means building routines, check-ins, and low-stakes ways to participate so a language classroom doesn’t accidentally re-trigger a student’s trauma response — things like a fire drill, a raised voice, or being called on without warning. The seven strategies below come from frameworks already used with refugee and immigrant English learners: predictable structure,…
There are six co-teaching models for ESL: one teach/one observe, one teach/one assist, station teaching, parallel teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching. Push-in support means the ESL or ELL specialist delivers instruction inside the mainstream classroom using one of these models, instead of pulling students out to a separate room. The right model depends on…
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