A Fun Video To Show The Importance Of Good Pronunciation
Here’s a fun video I’m adding to The Best Websites For Practicing English...
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Good Advice On Making Presentations
Pitch perfect: Strategic language use maximizes the chances of influencing an audience is a piece...
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“Synth” Will Immediately Become A Favorite Web Tool For Every Teacher Of ELLs
Thanks to Richard Byrne and his fabulous blog, I just learned about Synth. As the headline of this...
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Great Article To Help Presenters With “Um,” “Ah,” and “You Know”
Who among us hasn’t experienced – at some point in our lives – challenges with...
Read More“Best” Lists Of The Week: Listening & Speaking Resources
This is the thirty-sixth post in a series I’m creating that will highlight the Best “Best” lists in a particular topic I have posted over the years. Next month, I’ll be unveiling a redesigned blog which will have these...
Read MoreThe Best Resources For Teacher & Student Podcasting
I’ve had a bunch of podcasting resources at The Best Sites To Practice Speaking English, and thought it would be useful to move them over to their own “Best” list, as well as add new resources (please suggest...
Read MoreThe Best Tools For Creating Chatbots
The original title for this post was “Voicegram Is A Useful Tool For ELLs.” However, new chatbot creation tools are coming online a-mile-a-minute, and I wanted to put them all together in one place. Voicegram...
Read MoreThe Best Ways To Use Tongue Twisters With ELLs
I was originally just going to share a commercial appearing in the Super Bowl next year that could be used as an introduction to a tongue twister lesson. Then, I realized that I had previously shared several posts about the...
Read MoreOne Of My Favorite – & Easiest – ELL Activities To Practice Speaking (Links & Recordings Included)
Most ELL teachers know that 90% of dialogues for students to practice are terrible – it’s like textbook writers are in a contest to see who can write the most boring ones. But dialogues can be so much fun – and...
Read MoreSimple & Effective Speaking Rubric For Class Presentations
Talented student teacher Kevin Inlay created this simple and effective speaking rubric that we used with class presentations in our ELL World History class. Reviewing it ahead of time and then using it made a tremendous...
Read MoreStoryCorps Kicks-Off “Great Thanksgiving Listen” Again
I posted a lot about last year’s StoryCorps’ Great Thanksgiving Listen, and they’re doing it again this year. You can find out lots of information – along with downloading resources – at their...
Read More“Call Me Ishmael” Is A Neat Site & Model For Student Book Activity
Call Me Ishmael is a neat site that I learned about through John Damaso’s excellent post, Top 10 ISTE takeaways for English teachers. It’s very simple – students read a book of their choice, call a number and...
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