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• Short, High-Interest Articles for Extensive Reading: #15: "Wanting To Stop Unhealthy Habits”

(This posting includes a handout LINK AT THE END OF THIS POST which you are welcome to use with your students.) *

                                      Wanting To Stop Unhealthy Habits

Jena and Daniel had similar problems. They...


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Pronunciation Class? Really?

Earlier in my career, I was assigned a pronunciation course with 12 students representing five distinct language groups: Arabic, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese. The program administrator had provided a standard pronunciation textbook, and my first challenge was deciding where to begin.

The textbook followed a traditional...


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• Great Whole-Class Game for ESL Listening Skills (Revisited)

This game has it all: Motivates listening skills. All students focused. Students are up and out of their seats. Easily customized to the interests and level of a specific class of students. Organized with minimal teacher work. Stimulating with a lot of laughing. Here is how it works.

Step 1: In advance, the teacher writes some questions with...


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• Short, Human-Interest Articles for Extensive Reading: # 14: "Why It’s Hard to Apologize”

(This posting includes a handout LINK AT THE END OF THIS POST which you are welcome to use with your students.) *

Last week, Emily took her driver’s test but failed. At dinner, she told her family but asked them all to promise not to tell anyone because she felt embarrassed. Yesterday, a friend, Jay, said to her, “Your sister, Kara, told me that you fa...


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• Fun Activity To Reduce Irritating Classroom Behavior

(This posting includes a handout which you are welcome to use with your students.)

 (This is a revision to an earlier posting: Enjoyable and Effective Awareness Activity for Changing ESL Students Classroom Behavior)

Most ESL students don’t do goofy things just to irritate the teacher. Usually, they are una...


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