Telephone English: Getting Practice
Teaching telephone English can be frustrating as students really need to practice their skill as often as possible in order to improve their comprehension skills. View article…
Posts Tagged ‘ESL Lessons’
ESL Lesson of the Day: Telephone Practice
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ESL Lesson of the Day: American and British English
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Differences between American and British English
“Should I put this in the boot?” – If you ask an American this, you might get an inquisitive look. “Boot” in American English translates as “trunk”. British and American… View article…
ESL Lesson of the Day: Idioms Using Know
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Idioms and Expressions: Know
Here is a new idiom and expression sheet focusing on one of the most common verbs ‘know’. Each idiom or expression has a definition and two example sentences to help… View article…
ESL Lesson of the Day: Giving Advice, Making Complaints
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Useful Phrases for Giving Advice, Making Complaints, Etc.
These standard phrases are useful in a variety of common situations in everyday life. Each phrase resource also includes a follow-up quiz to check your understanding. Contrasting Ideas – Contrasting Ideas…
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ESL Lessons of the Day: Pesky Prepositions
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of / from / than?
Prepositional phrases can drive any student crazy! Test and improve your knowledge of common prepositional phrases with these online quizzes….
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English Lesson of the Day: Pesky Past Tense
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous Resources
She had been working for ten hours before she finally took a break. (example of past perfect continuous and past simple) This page is dedicated to helping both learners and teachers… View article…
ESL Lesson of the Day: Irregular Verbs
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Irregular Verbs – Example Sentences
Click on one of the irregular verbs for example sentences of irregular verbs in all tenses including active and passive forms, as well as conditional and modal forms. View article…
ESL Lesson of the Day: Learning Vocabulary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Techniques to Help You Improve Your Vocabulary
Learning vocabulary is often a very difficult task. Research shows that vocabulary learned in topically related word ‘groups’ – as opposed to learning new vocabulary in random lists of new…
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ESL: Visual Dictionaries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL - General Info, ESL Lessons on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Visual Dictionaries
Saturday February 21, 2009
Using visual dictionaries are a great way to improve your vocabulary. Here on the site, there are four visual dictionaries that provide pictures and example sentences:Sports
Food
Animals
Professions
From ESL.about.com http://esl.about.com/b/2009/02/21/visual-dictionaries.htm
English Lesson of the Day: Banished Words
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ESL Lessons on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“It’s that time of year again!”: Banished Words for 2009
Lake Superior State University has released its 34th annual List of Banished Words: worn-out, misused, unnecessary, and generally annoying words and expressions. Here are six that caught our attention:
· green (and all its ecological variations: going green, building green, greening, green technology, green solutions, and [...]
