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Strikes, protests and demonstrations are a part of daily life these days. It is often a popular topic in the media, so learners should be encouraged to talk about it. We would like to offer you a...
If you haven't checked out our official ESL Expertz Christmas poster, you should click here. Complete your Christmas poster collection by downloading this free PDF for the last 10 minutes of any of...
Here is a Christmas related activity adapted from Les Zexperts FLE originally created by Benoit Viellet. It's almost Christmas, so we're doing some Christmas posts. Voilá. Being traumatized by...
Talking about politics can be difficult sometimes, but it is definitely a subject that adult learners love to talk about. However, I believe it is important to do it the right way, and I think I've...
Do you have a lesson starting in 5 minutes you forgot about? Is there a line of people at the copier? Or worse, is it broken again!? Are you working online? Or just trying to avoid killing so many...
What on earth did they teach us in school? Do you remember how to factor binomials or the Pythagorean theorem? Probably. Do you remember how much the Louisiana Purchase cost or when William the...
Like many of you, I have become a 90% online teacher. For one-on-one lessons, this has little effect on my teaching style, especially since I can use many ESL Expertz resources in similarly kinetic...
How many English teachers does it take to change a light bulb? Good question. Dobre pytanie. Bonne question. Buena pregunta. хороший вопрос. 好问题.
For anybody working exclusively at home, you may be running out of ideas for how to spice up those online lessons. Here is a great introduction for how to use virtual museum tours in a fun and easy way. Once you start thinking about it, you’ll probably come up with activities just for you.
…but never dared ask. We learn more from our failures than our successes, and over the years I have learned quite a bit. Icebreakers seem like such a simple thing until you show up to class with an idea and bomb on the first day. Today I will share with you what I have learned over the years, the do’s and the don’ts of icebreakers.
There are some products online that are just too weird to believe, and others that are so weird they must be true! This B1-B2 level discussion course has everything you need for a 60-90 minute discussion about wonderful and weird products found online.
This lesson plan is my own creation and it has been through several revisions over the past 12 months. I hope this “final” version can help you in one of your future classes! Suitable for B1+ – C1 students. Duration: ~ 90 minutes.
Since Covid-19 hit, do you know what I’ve really missed? Teeny tiny pieces of paper… They used to be everywhere! In cups, wrapped by rubber bands, in plastic baggies, tucked into textbooks and paperclips. Kinetic learning was my favorite method. ESL Expertz has created many of its resources to work in much the same way as those bits of paper. Learn our best method for using “Well, Say Something!” in your online lessons here!