Choosing Between Red and Blue
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How to Start a Conversation in English: Greetings, Small Talk, and More! Welcome to the kitchen! My name is Tahric Finn. Today, I want to share some simple but important English greetings and conversation starters you can use when you meet someone new. We’ll go through some useful phrases for greetings, introductions, small talk, keeping…
These writing prompts for ESL students give teachers 45 practical ideas, scaffolds, and routines that make English writing easier to start and easier to improve.
Quick Answer: Use the past simple for a finished action at a specific past time — I visited Japan in 2019. Use the present perfect when the past action still connects to now, because the time is unfinished, unknown, or simply not the point — I have visited Japan. The fastest classroom test: if a…
The lexical approach teaches English as a stock of ready-made chunks — collocations, fixed phrases, and sentence frames — instead of grammar rules plus single words. Developed by Michael Lewis in 1993, it argues that fluent speakers aren’t assembling sentences word by word; they’re retrieving pre-built phrases like “take a break” or “as far as…
Discover 15 proven ESL teaching strategies for engaging learners, boosting fluency, and managing diverse classrooms — from total physical response to AI-assisted scaffolding.
Formal vs informal English — also called register — is the difference between “I am writing to inquire about the position” in a job application and “hey, just asking about the job” in a text. ESL learners need to recognize which register a situation demands and produce the right language for it. The seven activities…
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