ESL Teacher Professional Development
Improve your English Teaching Skills
Teaching English abroad is not an easy thing and professional development for Tesol teachers is an even harder thing to do well. Perhaps you struggle to make your ESL lesson plans interesting and don't know where to go for teacher education. I have lots of ideas for easy, practical things that you can do to develop in your career as an ESL Teacher. Your students will appreciate better lesson and you will feel more satisfied as you will be able to see your students gain confidence and picking ...

My Favourite ESL Vocabulary Review Game
Games Are Fun & Educational Too!
I was asked to create this lens as part of Squidoo's Virtual Jenga Quest. My challenge was to create a lens that highlights a specific game or activity that my ESL students enjoy and that's helpful to them in their learning process. In my eyes, educational games and activities are one of the best ways to learn. As an Oral English teacher in rural China, I always incorporate at least one game or activity into each lesson plan. The students really respond to games, and have a great time - whic...

ESL Vocabulary Activities
Are you looking for ideas to help your students learn English Vocabulary?
Studies show that if you know 1000 words in a language, you can function in about 90% of oral communication. And usually, this is the main goal of many of our students. So teaching Vocabulary Words is key to helping our ESL and EFL students speak English well. However, this is sometimes hard to do in an interesting, and most importantly memorable way. This site has lots of ideas for games and activities you can do to help your students pick up vocabulary naturally, and remember it years down ...

Find ESL Worksheets
Worksheets Are Fun
Worksheets were my favorite thing to work on in grade school. If we finished our class work early, we were allowed to choose a topic and a worksheet to keep us busy until the school day was over. I would rush to get my work done so I could "play" the rest of the day. Funny that I didn't understand it was a learning tool. LOL I still have one of those worksheets tucked away on my box of childhood "stuff". I know people learning English as their second language who collect ESL worksheets. I ...