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How Using Adjective Clauses Helps Power Up Their Writing

You’ve noticed something.  Your students are at least intermediate, but their writing isn’t.  Sure, they use adjectives, and they add prepositional phrases.  You’ve done sentence stretching exercises with them.  But they still write short sentences that are short on details and sans anything like adjective clauses.  You dream of the day you grade essays with …
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3 Powerful Reasons to Incorporate Conversational Visits in a Speaking Activity

What are conversational visits? Simply put, conversational visits are when one or more of your students visits another classroom to practice speaking in English with another teacher’s students for a specified ESL speaking activity.  You can freshen up just about any speaking activity when you incorporate students from a similar level in another class.  But …
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Role Plays for Adult ESL: 4 Impressive Reasons to Use Them

Real-life English enters your classroom when you incorporate role plays for adult ESL.  Your students need speaking practice, not to survive in your classroom, but to live their lives OUTSIDE your classroom.  If you haven’t been using role plays written specifically for adult ESL, now is the time!  Here are four reasons why your students ought to be doing …
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The Battle of B and P Sounds: Moving Toward Pronunciation Precision

If you’ve had the privilege of teaching students whose mother tongue is Arabic, you’re no stranger to their unique challenges when grappling with the b and p sounds.  It’s the structure of the Arabic language’s sounds and those oh-so-subtle distinctions between the b and p sounds in Arabic that create significant challenges when it comes …
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Short I and Long E Sounds: 4 Engaging Activities for Adult ESL Pronunciation

Short I and Long E sounds require clear pronunciation for effective communication and building confidence in adult ESL speakers. Conquering these sounds may present challenges, but none of us want our students to confuse “beach” with “bitch,” right?  The thing is, drilling is effective but boring.  So how about some activities for Short I and …
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Rike Neville
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