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This lesson is a easy yet fun and interactive one to do right on the spot: it only requires a few slips of paper, students, and some interesting facts. Students write an interesting fact on a slip of paper, grab another’s, and mingle to find out whose interesting fact belongs to whom.
Students share and discuss the meaning, origin, and popularity of their name.
Getting to Know you Questions This lesson is a simple one: you just elicit how to ask some basic questions regarding personal information, then you have the students ask and answer the questions amongst themselves, and finally you go over…
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There are 16 vowel sounds in North American English (the dialects of the USA and Canada); however, there are ONLY 5 vowel letters – a, e, i, o, and u (well, six if you count the letter of ‘y’). If you want to know how to properly teach your students how to pronounce NAE, you better read this blog.
Vocabulary is the building block of language learning: here you’ll find a concise overview of how to properly teach it so that your students will grasp it in terms of meaning, form, and pronunciation.
Hypothyroidism If you are hypothyroid, sorry to inform you, but you almost certainly have an autoimmune condition called “Hashimoto’s”. Having an autoimmune condition means that your body is attacking itself by antibodies from within. Having “Hashimoto’s” means that you have…
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This is an in-depth post to help you learn how to form English sentences by using punctuation and arranging clauses correctly and stylistically.
Ever wonder how to correctly use semicolons ( ; ), colons ( : ), and dashes ( – )? Here is a quick and easy reference guide to teach you to correctly and stylistically use English punctuation.
Warm-up: Introduction Questions (answer in the comments section below): Directions: This is a free-writing exercise. Write down everything you know about the topics as quickly as possible. Do not stop and worry about paragraph structures (e.g. introduction, body, and conclusion). The…
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