So, here’s a confession…I once wore expired Halloween face paint to class. Not just expired. Wrong kind of paint entirely. (This wasn’t on purpose.) Eight days. That’s how long I had a blue and red tint to my face despite aggressive scrubbing. My students thought it was hilarious. I did not. Learn from my mistakes, […]
Updated January 2026. Another year has passed, remarkably fast and excruciatingly slow both in turns and at the same time. Time is a weird concept to me. Once I learned that it’s not the same “time” for everyone in the world simultaneously, a lot of time-related traditions became meaningless for me, especially perhaps New Year’s.
When schoooooool’s NOT out for summer…Well, across the country, students and teachers look forward to the school-free summer months, but for many adult ESL courses/classes, it’s business (or education) as usual. If that’s the case for you, consider trying out some of these summer vocabulary lesson ideas for adult ESL classes. After all, our childhood
The days are (finally) getting longer and your adult ESL students have energy again. You know what I’m talking about. That fidgety, restless, can’t-sit-still energy. The way they keep glancing at the windows like they’re planning their escape. Here’s the thing…spring is the perfect excuse to inject some life back into your classroom. I’m not
Winter happens whether we acknowledge it in our classrooms or not. And sure, we could pretend it doesn’t exist because we’ve got Chapter 7 of the grammar textbook to finish. We could keep our heads down and push through those conditional clauses while students are distracted by the first snow of the season outside the
“Teacher, when do the trees turn colors?” My Saudi students were sooo ready for fall. They’d seen the pictures online. The Instagram-worthy leaf tunnels. The explosions of red and gold stretching from your feet to the horizon. They were prepared for sweater weather and cozy scarves and all that romantic autumn atmosphere Hollywood had promised
