That is why you should make every effort possible to find somebody to speak with. At School If you go to a language school, you should use the opportunity to speak to your teachers and other students.
Conversation Clubs Many cities around the world have conversation clubs where people can exchange one language for another.
Shopping If you are living in an English-speaking country, you have a wonderful opportunity. Pubs and Bars Even if you don't live in an English-speaking country, there are often American, British, Irish and Australian pubs in many large cities. Language is all around You Everywhere you go you find language. Songs and Video Listen to the words of an English-language song that you like.
Giving Directions in English Giving directions in English is one of the most useful functions there is. Everyone understands that this is the function they are likely to use on the street, literally, and therefore the motivation is usually quite easy. To be able to give directions you need to learn a set of phrases which you later combine into a conversation. To teach the phrases we offer you the following. A simple drill teaching the basic phrases , an infographic, several worksheet activities and an interactive quiz.
Giving Directions in English — Video First watch and repeat the phrases and then produce the phrases before the native speaker says them. Giving Directions in English — Infographic It is always a good idea to give students a handout with all the phrases you want them to learn.
You can download the full-size picture here: Directions — full size picture Giving Directions in English — Worksheet and quiz First of all I would love to recommend the following worksheet by Mary Glasgow plus.
I was recently asked to come up with a list of icebreakers and first day or first week activities for students and new EFL ESL classes at the institution I am working at. I like to use a variety of bingo games, too. Get each student to write three statements about themselves. One is false…. Restaurant English: Ordering Food Time: 1 hour Focus: The purpose of this lesson is to give false beginners the skills to order food in a restaurant. This lesson follows a simple format of an introduction and discussion, followed by a role-play activity.
Preparation: The teacher will need to print off and photocopy four sheets: restaurant menus, the waiters' activity sheet, the customers' activity sheet, and the role-play prompts. Introduction: Tell the students that they will be ordering food from restaurants today.
Usually, the student will say something very basic, "Hamburger. Discussion: The purpose of the above demonstration is a lesson in pragmatic competence. As a class we briefly discuss ways to order food: I'll have a hamburger, please. Students answer the questions with their own ideas and using appropriate tenses. For the last two items, they write both questions and answers. Present perfect questionnaire PDF. This is an elementary ESL speaking activity for practicing language useful for talking about shopping.
Shopping is a great topic for English language students as it is universally accessible. Using pictures with the questions gives context. The vocabulary at the bottom of the page can be matched to the pictures as an icebreaker. Students can discuss and answer the questions in groups or in pairs. Talking about shopping PDF. Socializing Speaking Lessons Home.
Listening exercises for all levels. Bad vacation PDF. Role plays can be really good speaking activities. However, students really need to be able to identify with and be interested in the characters they are playing. The easiest and most successful role play I have encountered is the celebrity role play.
It is also the most popular role play idea on my website by miles. This is a fun communicative exercise that allows students to to be creative and to improvise. Celebrity role play PDF. This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for talking about clothes, accessories and fashion choices. Fashion is a great classroom topic as it easily engages students. I wrote the above in the days before Pixabay and other royalty-free and actually free image sites.
There are more options now. Pictures designed especially for ESL still make valuable conversation-starters. ESL Flow has many more links to vocabulary, grammar, and reading pages from all over the Internet. Almost all are for intermediate level up. If you are already an experienced teacher, you could jump straight to the 2nd page plan itself. It also has conversation, activity, and game ideas, and links to ESL readings.
It's no longer a functioning journal, but it keeps its archives available. The British Council TeachingEnglish. I was very impressed by this article on Making Reading Communicative. It suggests strategies to use before, during, and after a reading activity for maximum language practice. Below those are some excellent articles on teaching ESL. They also have ESL blogs from all over the web available via their top navigation. Bogglesworld has lots of worksheets and activities.
An example: "how life has changed in the last 50 years"-- to practice comparatives. They have lesson for young learners, business English, and phonics. They also have an invaluable section on Survival ESL. It has lessons to prepare beginners for travel or living in English-speaking countries. A visitor to EnglishHints suggested Start Local. It lists many classic ESL resources plus sites I had never seen. One is ESL Blues with an impressive number of practice activities.
I've linked to it separately, since the link in Start Local didn't work when I tried it most recently. It gives suggestions for adapting when expected to use a textbook too much. I loved idea Try giving students a treasure hunt through the text.
This way they're at least familiar with the parts you don't have time or inclination to emphasize. Near the end of the article are links to more ideas. Check them out for ways to get the best from books without feeling enslaved to them. There are many more excellent ESL teacher resource sites online. There are also some poor ones.
When you have time, explore more on your own. The tefl. There are some great teacher blogs, as well. Happy hunting! A class field trip to the library is even better, if possible. You can encourage parents to take their children to the library, too. I took several adult classes to the library.
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