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Month: February 2020

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Help Police: Useful English for Officers and Tourists

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on Help Police: Useful English for Officers and Tourists

I once had the very scary pleasure of teaching a whole classroom full of senior police officers while I was working for YBM in Korea. I was sweatingRead More…

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Things You Don’t Say to Your Wife: ESL Music Class

January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on Things You Don’t Say to Your Wife: ESL Music Class

Music is always a great mix-up for class. Combine that with humor and you have an ESL activity that is golden! I’ve done a few Al Yankovich songs Read More…

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The Three H’s: A Great ESL Icebreaker

January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on The Three H’s: A Great ESL Icebreaker

This is a great icebreaker that I like to call the three H’s: Hometown, hobby, and hero. Whenever it is the first day of a new class and I’m stuRead More…

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Confusing Body Gestures

January 15, 2020January 16, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on Confusing Body Gestures

Body Language is always a good topic for class. There are so many ways to use this for class. Before you begin this class think of some kind of gestRead More…

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‘Would You Rather’ for English Conversation Class

January 10, 2020January 11, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on ‘Would You Rather’ for English Conversation Class

This is a fun activity and a rather great class that I discovered while working in Korea. Over the years, I have collected a vast list of these, bRead More…

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Clarification in ESL Conversation

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on Clarification in ESL Conversation

What is Clarification? Clarification is how you make sure that you understand the other person by either asking again or repeating back the importaRead More…

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What is Stress? ESL Discussion Topic

January 5, 2020January 8, 2020 Jim S.Leave a Comment on What is Stress? ESL Discussion Topic

I am always looking for things that are interesting for me to talk about in class. I figure if it interests me then maybe it will interest my studenRead More…

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Which articles do you take?

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 Jim S.2 Comments on Which articles do you take?

I have said before that I love these types of activities and this was one of my favorite ESL group discussion activities. The premise is simple. SomRead More…

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