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The following is a technique for teaching writing to intermediate students. Have the student pick a topic. It can be history, science, biography, or even fiction. The student writes a draft. If the student is an early intermediate, the teacher can do a lot of the writing. Next, the teacher corrects ...

Get movies in English that kids are crazy about. They'll watch them for fun and wont even know that they're learning. I mean movies like "Star Wars" and stuff like that. It works for me. It's not quite an academic approach but, hey, a lot of English isn't academic.

Your supervisors want to give you a one-size-fits-all curriculum which will be a dis-service to your students. ESL students come from such varied backgrounds that you almost have to design a separate curriculum for each student. That's a little bit of an exaggeration but you get the idea. But you al...