Choosing Between Red and Blue
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Grammar has a reputation problem. This guide shows ESL teachers how to use grammar games to replace drills with real production — and how to know they actually worked.
Quick Answer: Sentence stress means emphasizing content words (nouns, main verbs, adjectives, adverbs) and reducing function words (articles, prepositions, auxiliaries). English is a stress-timed language, so getting this rhythm right is the single biggest factor in sounding natural. The 8 exercises below work across all CEFR levels from A2 upward and require no special materials….
Word stress is the emphasis placed on one syllable in a multi-syllable English word — the “PRE-sent” versus “pre-SENT” difference that changes a noun into a verb. English speakers stress that syllable by making it longer, louder, and slightly higher in pitch, and getting it wrong is one of the fastest ways an otherwise fluent…
A grammar auction is a team game where students “buy” sentences with fake money, betting on whether each one is grammatically correct. The team that spends its budget on the most correct sentences wins, and the real learning happens in the debrief, when the teacher reveals the answers and the class argues over why a…
Points, badges, and leaderboards can transform a quiet ESL class — or backfire. Here is what actually works, backed by research.
Quick Answer: Teaching prefixes and suffixes in ESL gives students a reliable strategy for decoding unfamiliar words. Focus on the 10–15 highest-frequency affixes first, use hands-on word-building activities to make the patterns stick, and sequence instruction from simple (-ly, -er, un-) to complex (Latinate prefixes, academic suffixes). Students who control common affixes can make accurate…
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