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Hello, I think the best way for the students to remember new words is to associate them with images, funny stories, anecdotes or moves. The word has to be associated by the learner with something very particular and special for him or her. It has to attract the student's interest and attention to be...

Hello, What I use to teach pronunciation is tongue twisters and reading activities. While reading, the students have the correct words but sometimes a wrong pronunciation, so it is easy to give feedback. Also, when ask my students to read tongue twisters, it makes them practice sounds that they have...

Hello, I think using Youtube for ESL teaching is a very good way to bring many different cultures to the class. It can be used for any level and give the students opportunities to hear other accents. It also provides real contexts for a English learning because most of the time, the videos published...

Hello Theo, Hope you found some solutions to your problem... In my opinion, when you have many different levels in the same group of learners, I would suggest to take the stronger students' knowledge and presence to help the weaker students. Otherwise, you can do one main activity for the whole grou...

Hello, I am actually teaching 6-7 intermediate level adults in a local community room. What they basically want is to pratice in order to get them ready for real contexts. In order to do so, I have made a little box in which I put cards with contextual hints. They though have to pick a card and solv...