Teaching tips, ESL strategies, and education insights from Tahric Teaches.

ESL Lesson Planning: 7 Steps to Lessons That Work (2026)
A teacher’s 7-step framework for ESL lesson planning that actually moves students forward. Includes free template, PPP/ESA/TBL guidance, and a downloadable structure.

English Idioms: Emotions and Feelings — 10 Expressions You Need to Know
Master 10 high-frequency English emotion idioms with meanings, origin stories, example sentences, and teaching tips for ESL classrooms.

Vocabulary Teaching Strategies: 10 Methods That Stick (2026)
Ten vocabulary teaching strategies that actually move ESL test scores — pre-teaching in semantic chunks, the multiple-encounter rule, spaced retrieval, morphology, and the games and…

How to Make Grammar Fun: A Teacher’s Guide to Game-Based ESL Lessons
Grammar has a reputation problem. This guide shows ESL teachers how to use grammar games to replace drills with real production — and how to…

Corrective Feedback in ESL: 9 Techniques That Work
Corrective feedback in ESL is the single classroom move that decides whether students walk out fluent or fossilized. After twenty years teaching English in Taipei…

Task-Based Language Teaching: 7 Examples That Work (2026)
Task-based language teaching is an ESL methodology where students learn by completing a meaningful task — booking a hotel, planning a route, solving a puzzle,…

ESL Writing Activities and Prompts: From First Sentence to Final Essay
A practical guide to ESL writing activities and prompts that get reluctant students writing — beginner sentence builders, intermediate paragraph frames, and advanced essay tasks…

Comprehensible Input: 12 Examples for ESL Teachers (2026)
Stephen Krashen made one claim in 1985 that quietly rewired how serious teachers run an ESL classroom: comprehensible input — language that a student can…

AI for Differentiated Instruction in ESL: How to Teach Mixed-Level Classes
Practical AI workflows, prompts, and a sample lesson plan to differentiate content, process, and product for mixed-level ESL classes — without burning your evenings.

TPR Examples: 15 Best Total Physical Response Activities
TPR examples for ESL teachers — 15 classroom-tested Total Physical Response activities, a lesson plan, age adaptations, and where TPR breaks down.

Should I Allow AI in My ESL Classroom? A Teacher’s Decision Guide
A practical framework for ESL teachers wondering whether to allow AI in the classroom — three-tier policy, real activities, and red flags to watch for.

Scaffolding Examples in Teaching: 15 ESL Techniques
Scaffolding examples in teaching are the small supports a teacher builds around a difficult task — a sentence frame, a model dialogue, a partial gap-fill…
