Personality Test & Career Paths Lesson by Meg Dale (Bulgaria ETA) “What do you want to be when you grow up?” This oft-repeated question, while generally well-meaning, can cause students a considerable amount of stress if they don’t know what they want to do in the future, or know what…
Weird Stock Photos by Robyn Kincaide (South Korea ETA) Google Images is chock-full of bizarre stock photos, ranging from the oh-so-classic “Woman laughing alone with salad” to “Man talking on a shoe phone” and beyond. If you’re a fellow citizen of the internet age who also finds this plethora of…
“As (blah blah) as…” Simile Poems Lesson by Maggie Little (South Korea ETA) The ability to make comparisons is an important language skill. A lot of English curriculum seems to emphasize things like comparatives and superlatives, but doesn’t really focus on how to talk about things that are the same…
Music Lesson – Make a Parody! by Paige Whitney (South Korea ETA) One of the most reliable ways to engage your students and get them excited about learning English is to incorporate recent pop music. In a creative take on a music lesson, South Korea ETA Paige Whitney goes beyond…
Success by Lindsay Mickles (Bulgaria ETA) As teachers, our primary goal is not simply to teach our subject matter, but to provide our students with the skills they need to find success in life. What better way to help students do so than to devote a class period to discussing…
Images for Inspiration by Morgan Harden (Argentina ETA) Expressing yourself creatively can be difficult. You may have dozens of ideas swirling around in your head, but finding a way to communicate them through a medium that others can understand and appreciate is challenging. Try doing so in another language,…
Easter Trivia by Robyn Kincaide (South Korea ETA) Easter is coming up in a couple of weeks! If you’re looking for an engaging way to introduce your low to intermediate-level students to some Easter facts and traditions, then this “Easter Trivia” lesson designed by South Korea ETA Robyn Kincaide may…
Speaking Test Unit – Solving Problems by Erin Slocum (South Korea ETA) One of the biggest challenges ESL teachers face is determining how to assess students’ speaking abilities. Such a variety of factors are involved in speaking another language that it can be difficult to know where to begin. That’s…
American Humor by Olivia Gillespie (Brazil ETA) Next Monday is April Fool’s Day, so why not kick off the upcoming month with a fun lesson for your students? Our latest Lesson of the Week, “American Humor” by Brazil ETA Olivia Gillespie invites high-level learners to discuss cultural differences in senses…
Plural Nouns & Admired People contributed by an Indonesia ETA “Cat” changes to “cats”, but “mouse” becomes “mice” and “sheep” are always just “sheep” regardless of how many there are…isn’t English grammar simply a delight? Plural nouns can be a hard enough concept for English learners with mother tongues which…