Understanding the Errors of Arabic Speaking ELL's- using Slide Share
TeachersCultureTeacher CafeEducationLanguageTake a look at Slide Share and there collections of various slide shows. This slide show includes a side by side comparisons of Arabic and English, along with illustrations to understand the mistakes of your Arabic language learners.
14 Weird Words That Literally Contradict themselves
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeLanguageEducationContronyms are words which have two more or less opposite meanings. The word is a contronym; it can mean hit, as in hitting someone, or it can mean miss, as used in baseball.
"Vape" Word of the year 2014
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeLanguageCultureLast year it was "selfie" and in 2012 it was "GIF". Oxford University Press have chosen "vape" as this years winner. The word, which the dictionaries's blog defines as both a verb and a noun for the whole category of popular tobacco atomizing devices.
Word Bucket
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducationLanguageWord Bucket is a personal English dictionary, notebook and vocabulary learning game. Students can save all new words to their personal Bucket and learn them through tests and games.
Use Technology to Help Students Learn
TeachersTeacher CafeTechnologyEducationLanguageThere are a lot of ways technology can help ESL students learn. Here you will discover ways to use technology in your classroom to help students further their language learning.
Inspiring students with learning disabilities to take up a language
TeachersDisabilityTeacher CafeEducationLanguageWith a different approach, language lessons for students with special education can be inclusive, exciting and relevant. Adapting lessons so they include more visual and audio aspects could help when teaching languages to young people with learning difficulties.
Vocabulary
TeachersReadingTeacher CafeEducationLanguageA vocabulary learning platform with images, games and activities for all types of classrooms. A resources for teachers and students to practice vocabulary.
Ship or Sheep?
TeachersSpeakingTeacher CafeEducationLanguagePronunciation practice with minimal pairs. This website has the image, phonetic symbol and pronunciation for each word. Great practice for students of all ages.
ESL Speaking Activities
TeachersSpeakingTeacher CafeEducationLanguageBuild your bank of resources with some free online resources for speaking practice. On this website, they have printables and projectables. Don't forget to upload your own resources to share as well.
Conversation Strategy: Asking for a Response
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationLanguageA sample lesson plan for conversation strategy: asking for a response, is a great one to add to your files. This ESL conversation activity is for any age of learner and uses simple dialogue and conversation questions to improve conversation skills.
Podcast: Teaching Languages, Tips and Techniques
TeachersListeningTeacher CafeEducationLanguageCarla Arena a language educator joins Vicki Davis the @coolcatteacher in a discussion on sharing advice on teaching languages. Do you struggle with students with different learner abilities or levels in one class? - how do you handle this? Carla has some great advice.
ESL Multilevel Activities
TeachersTeacher CafeEducationLanguageAll ESL classes have multilevel students to a degree. Obviously, this can be a planning nightmare and a lot of extra work for teachers. The good news is that even extreme differences in language levels can be successfully managed so that students progress.
English Grammar Lesson: Phrasal Verbs (Part One)
AdultsSmrt LiveGrammarEducationLanguageCraig gives the first part of a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of phrasal verbs in English. In part one, Craig discusses separable phrasal verbs. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: Participle Adjectives
AdultsSmrt LiveGrammarEducationLanguageLeanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the participle (participial) adjectives. This includes an explanation about the difference between ~ing (present participle) and ~ed (past participle) forms. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
English Grammar Lesson: First Conditional & Time Clauses
AdultsSmrt LiveGrammarEducationLanguageLeanne gives a video lesson / tutorial on the usage of the First Conditional grammar rule as well as how to talk about the future with time clauses. This lesson is aimed at ESL students studying English grammar at an upper-intermediate level.
Review and the Past Simple
AdultsSmrt LiveGrammarEducationLanguageMark reviews the differences between the present perfect simple and present perfect continuous and also explains the similarities and differences of the present perfect with the past simple. This video is for students at a pre-intermediate level.
Explaining Now
AdultsSmrt LiveGrammarEducationLanguageLeanne explains how English speakers use the present perfect simple to explain the present with finished, past actions and the present perfect continuous to describe longer, possibly unfinished actions. This lesson is for students at a pre-intermediate level.