{"id":11412,"date":"2022-10-21T21:57:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} -->\n<h3><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">These awesome ideas will come in handy for your ESL lessons."},"modified":"2022-10-21T21:57:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T04:57:58","slug":"7-more-great-ideas-for-teaching-esl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/7-more-great-ideas-for-teaching-esl\/","title":{"rendered":"7 MORE Great Ideas for Teaching ESL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"words-head\" id=\"words-3294885704\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5017566440575750\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5017566440575750\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"3340569236\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">These awesome ideas will come in handy for your ESL lessons.<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">1. My Routine<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students explain in groups their daily routines, practicing, the simple present and adverbs of frequency, and then write journals on the topic.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">2. Grammar Story<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Students construct the story of a fictitious person, using pictures from magazines and practice present, past, and future tenses to write about his or her life.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">3. Headlines<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To practice the passive voice, model and have students write headlines from their class: e.g., &#8220;The teacher&#8217;s purse was stolen&#8221;, &#8220;the students were taught passive voice.&#8221;<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">4. If I were a Rich Man<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Teach the song from the musical &#8220;Fiddler on the Roof.&#8221; Then Students discuss and write about what they would do if they were rich, practicing the unreal conditional.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">5. Controversial Issues<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Introduce some issues like Capital Punishment. Students Choose their teams, and issues, research, read, write, and debate on their issues.<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">6. Plans and Predictions<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Have Students discuss the future, using different tenses, for what they plan for (to be going to) and predict (will).<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">7. Twenty Questions<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Play the Game: one student thinks of someone\/something to be, and others try to guess what or who it is, using twenty yes\/no questions: e.g., &#8220;Are you a person?&#8221;<br><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3c1yyje0uguxm.cloudfront.net\/2022\/10\/7-MORE-Great-Ideas-for-Teaching-ESL-wordscoach.com_-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"7 MORE Great Ideas for Teaching ESL - wordscoach.com\" class=\"wp-image-11414\"\/><\/center><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">Read More<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table  class=\" table table-hover\" ><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/12-basic-verb-tenses-with-examples\/\">12 Basic English Verb Tenses with Examples and Usage Tips<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/2-types-of-widely-used-prepositions-and-how-to-use-them-in-a-sentence\/\">2 Types of widely used prepositions and how to use them in a sentence<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/what-should-be-the-structure-of-an-issue-essay-in-the-gre\/\">What should be the Structure of an Issue essay in the GRE given with a Sample Response<\/a><\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/top-5-reasons-of-why-strong-vocabulary-is-important\/\">Top 5 Reasons of Why Strong Vocabulary is important<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These awesome ideas will come in handy for your ESL lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6095,6092,6090,6096,6093,6094,6089,6087,6081,6080,6088,6082,6084,6083,6085,6091,6086],"class_list":["post-11412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-activites-for-teaching-enlish","tag-classroom-ideas-for-teachers","tag-english-activities-for-students","tag-english-teaching-games-for-kids","tag-esl-games-for-kindergarten","tag-esl-games-for-online-teaching","tag-esl-teaching-tips","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-english","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-teaching-grammar","tag-teaching-ideas","tag-teaching-ideas-for-kindergarten","tag-teaching-ideas-for-online-teaching","tag-teaching-ideas-for-the-first-day-of-middle-school","tag-teaching-techniques-for-esl-classrooms","tag-teaching-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordscoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}