While I absolutely see the value in a good worksheet, using plural noun activities when you have the time is just so much more fun! What kind of activity would be appropriate for an adult ESL class? Here are four I encourage you to try. Stage a plural noun linguistic investigation. Linguistic investigations are one …
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5 Quick Tips for Engaging Days of the Week Activities
Wondering why you should incorporate days of the week activities for adult ESL classes? Yes, the days of the week are such a simple concept and only seven words. If you’ve ever learned the terms in another language, you’re probably wondering why adult learners even NEED time to study the days of the week, right? …
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Vocabulary Bingo: The Playful Way to Review in Adult ESL Classes
Why vocabulary bingo? Here’s why! Are you looking for a fun and interactive way to review vocabulary with your students? Look no further than vocabulary bingo! When playing vocabulary bingo, students have the opportunity to see, hear, and use the new vocabulary in context, which can help them better understand and remember the words. This …
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Emotion Vocabulary: Why It’s Important and How to Teach It
Emotion vocabulary is not often taught in adult ESL classes, but it should be! As language teachers, we know that vocabulary is crucial to communication. But beyond just naming objects and actions, our students also need to have a rich emotional vocabulary. After all, being able to describe and express emotions accurately is essential to …
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Why Adult ESL Students SHOULD Neutralize Their Accent
Try telling an adult ESL learner who has been here for years and still struggles to be understood that reducing accents isn’t necessary. It may be PC to accept everyone no matter how they pronounce English words, but non-native speakers live in the real world. And c’mon…what image do you get in your mind when …
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4 Surefire Strategies for Refining R/L Pronunciation
When you teach Korean, Chinese, or Japanese students, you know you’re going to run into R/L pronunciation blunders. Before I knew about this common pronunciation error, I wondered why I kept hearing people talk about eating lice. I assumed it was a cultural dish because I hadn’t yet trained my brain to immediately switch r/l …
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Sh/Ch: 3 Must-Have Methods for Successful Pronunciation Tweaks
The pronunciation of sh/ch is a bigger problem than you might think! Whenever I heard teasher, I knew to look towards one of my Saudi students, not the ones from Korea or Spain or but sometimes one of the students from the Ivory Coast. These were the students who would ask where they could find …
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