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18 March

Teaching the Simple Present Tense with the Negative

  • Posted by Brian
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When ESL beginners learn to answer questions with positive answers they progress without too much difficulty. The negative answers, however, are more complex because the pattern is different with the use of “to be” and “to do”. Generally the structure …

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20 June

Activities for Teaching the Progressive Tenses

  • Posted by DG01
  • Categories Activities, Blog, Grammar Exercises

The progressive tenses are fun to teach as they follow an easy rule. When your students have studied the simple present and past tenses they will be ready to learn and use the present and past progressive tenses. This article …

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10 June

Starting an ESL Beginners’ Class

  • Posted by DG01
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When beginning students enroll in an ESL class, they are likely to come in with quite a bit of anxiety. They want to learn English, but many of them will be worried that it will be too difficult, or that …

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06 June

ESL Teaching Activities – Using Prepositions with Printable Handouts

  • Posted by DG01
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ESL EFL Students from many different cultures find prepositions difficult because their meaning is expressed in a very different way in their own language. The preposition word doesn’t always express its meaning clearly. This is particularly true when referring to dates. This …

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03 June

Keeping your ESL Class Alive – tips for ESL Teachers

  • Posted by DG01
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When you are teaching an ESL class, have you ever stopped and looked at the students’ faces? What do you see? Are the students sitting up, eager to see what comes next, or are they all slouched down with a …

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24 May

Tips for Accommodating Advanced Students in ESL Classrooms

  • Posted by DG01
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Most classes have several students who are more advanced than the others. They learn easily, their assignments are finished quickly, and they can be a behavior problem if they are bored. Teachers are required to meet the needs of children …

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18 May

Suggested Activities and Role-plays for Teaching Verb Tenses

  • Posted by DG01
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 The order in which the verb tenses are introduced can make the structure of the English Language easier for the students to understand. Whereas pre-teen and early teen children learn a language by listening and repeating what they hear, without …

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16 May

Steps for Making Verb Tenses Easier

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Many students are concerned about learning the tenses of the English language. They have likely heard horror stories about the irregular verbs and the many exceptions to the rules. It is scary unless a method for approaching the tenses in a step …

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