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4 Ways To Practice Wh-Question Words
Aug 26, 2020
Wh-questions are the glue that holds language together. Without them, conversation can't progress beyond a certain point. That's why I'm always so excited when my ESL students progress from only being able to answer closed ended questions to our WH-question word unit. To me it's almost as if they've graduated and are now officially "English Speakers". They can ask and answer a wealth of questions and really get to know eachother. Here's a few games and acitivities that I've created and remain my go-to teaching essentials when working with open-ended questions.
Ready, Set, Action Verbs : Help your students use the Present Continuous!
Aug 03, 2020
The present continuous is one of my favorite verbs to teach to groups of young learners. It can be loads of fun and since it's a verb that you can "teach by doing" the target language retention is phenomenal. So, you've finished the Present Simple and Adverbs of Frequency and you're ready to move forward and start the Present Progressive Tense. First things first, your students really need to have a good grasp of basic action verbs.
Boom Cards - The Easiest Way to Monitor Progress While Distance Learning
Jul 20, 2020
BOOM CARDS™ are just about the best thing that could happen to an ESL teacher. They are self-checking digital task cards that you can assign through the boom learning website. My collection of digital task cards includes the following resources: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple Regular and Irregular Verbs, Prepositions of Place, Seasonal Vocabulary, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives, Plural Nouns and more!