🏹🔥 HUNGER GAMES: 8 ENGLISH IDIOMS FOR TALKING ABOUT IT. ⚔️
These common idioms fit the Hunger Games story perfectly. Learn them, and you will sound more natural in English! 🗣️ 1. Against all odds 🎲Meaning: Succeeding when it seems almost impossible.Example: Against all odds, Katniss survived. 2. Beat the odds 🏆Meaning: Do better than people expect.Example: Nobody thought she would win, but she beat the […]
🗣️ WORKING ON MY BRAZILIAN ACCENT! 🙂🎤✨
In classes, I sometimes use accents to help students practice listening to different people from around the world. I do it with respect, NOT to make fun of people! It is good learning and also fun. I have several accents that I have learned over the years: British, Spanish, German, Italian, Indian, Russian, French, and […]
🗣️PRACTICING PRONUNCIATION USING PASSWORDS B7k#L2m$Q9x!R4t@P8w
Below is a new activity I recently created. Using passwords for pronunciation practice. The long password below is quite a challenge. Try it. Use the ‘Name’ and ‘Pronunciation Tip’ columns for help. Do you think someone could understand you as pronounced all these symbols over a phone or in person??? 😉 🔐 The Long Password: […]
📚🏹STUDENT FINISHES ‘THE HUNGER GAMES’ IN 11 DAYS. ⚔️
Well, the Hunger Games Book Challenge continues — and yesterday, we had our first finisher! She managed to complete the book in just eleven days. (She is level B2/C1.) Since most students started the book at different times, we don’t know yet who will finish the quickest overall, but eleven days will be hard to […]
⚾ THE L.A. DODGERS: TEACHING ENGLISH ONE INNING AT A TIME🧢
Sometimes the best lesson plan isn’t a traditional lesson plan at all — it’s baseball. ⚾ One of my students recently moved to Los Angeles from Japan, and like a lot of newcomers, he’s still finding his footing in a new city, a new culture, and a new language. But he found something that made […]
📝✅SAME SPELLING, DIFFERENT SOUND: The Wild World of OUGH😵💫
English has one letter combination — “ough” — that can be pronounced at least six different ways. That’s exactly why this list looks scary at first glance: the spelling never tells you how to say it. The only real fix is grouping words by sound, not by spelling, and drilling each small group until it […]
🏹THE HUNGER GAMES START TOMORROW: AND THE BOOK! 🎯🏹📔
This month’s ESL ENGLISH CHALLENGE, ‘The Hunger Games’ starts tomorrow, September 7th on Whatsapp! The competition will last until the end of the month of September. In September, we will also be reading the book! This is optional, of course and you DO NOT need to read the book or watch the movie to compete […]
🎯🏆September ESL Challenge: Coming soon! 🥳
😜CULTURE ENGLISH: THE WORD ‘ASS’
Learn about the many uses of the word ‘ass’ in English!
🏁FORD DEFEATS FERRARI IN THE AUGUST ESL CHALLENGE!🏎️🏎️🏆
Team Ford defeated Team Ferrari in the August ESL Challenge 1185 to 1035! CONGRATULATIONS, TEAM FORD! (Just like the movie 😉) Students competed by answering questions on the following English tests. 🌍 IELTS — International English Language Testing System, TOEFL — Test of English as a Foreign Language 💼 TOEIC — Test of English for […]
🏁🏎️AUGUST ESL CHALLENGE: FORD v FERRARI🏎️
A FEW DAYS AGO Ferrari caught up with Ford. However, Ford has since taken a 175-point lead with just FIVE days to go! Challenge ends on August 31. Next challenge starts on September 3rd! 🎓 Our Five English Challenges: (Questions partaaay!😉🥳):
🏎️🏁ESL CHALLENGE: FERRARI IS CATCHING UP!
FERRARI HAS PULLED OFF A MIRACLE AND IS WITHIN 30 POINTS OF FORD! The five English tests we’ve decided to use for our question sets are:
Family Guy making fun of all 50 US states 🤣🎯
https://youtu.be/VjIUHO9LwbM?is=C6hX3W-qAP1H9IbF
🏎️🏎️🏁AUGUST ESL CHALLENGE CONTINUES!
ESL CHALLENGE (In the WhatsApp Group): Team FORD has taken a big lead over team FERRARI this past week!
🏁🏎️AUGUST ESL CHALLENGE KICKS OFF TODAY🏆
Our August ESL Challenge starts today! There are just two teams this month because so many people are on vacation, etc. It’s Ford vs. Ferrari like the 2019 film about the famous LeMans race. This month will feature more questions from major English tests like the IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC but MORE fun!😜 The challenge […]
🛫🌎TWO STUDENTS VACATION IN THE USA!
Two students from Europe are using their ENGLISH skills in the USA right now! They are visiting the Western USA for two weeks! 🤠🐎
🛫🌏STUDENT HEADED FOR SRI LANKA!
A student has a trip planned to Sri Lanka in August! For months we have been doing dialogues, reading travel guides and history information, and studying vocabulary to prepare for the trip. There’s a lot of English spoken in Sri Lanka!
🛫🌍STUDENT VACATIONING IN PORTUGAL
A student has a trip planned to Portugal in mid August! In classes we have been reviewing travel guides, vocabulary and many dialogues for months to prepare for this adventure!
⁉️MOST COMPLICATED WORD IN ENGLISH! :
🐾SCOOPY TO SPEAK ON ANIMAL RIGHTS AND D2 ENGLISH
ANNOUNCEMENT: SCOOPY TO SPEAK ON ANIMAL RIGHTS AND D2 ENGLISH 🐾Edutainment English — Special Announcement Scoopy — world famous Chaweenie and international celebrity — will be making a special presentation at Pete’s Edutainment Lab. Topic: Animal Rights — Including the Right to Speak D2 English Scoopy believes strongly in this cause. Scoopy said: “Ingish is […]
🧓🏼PROFESSOR WIGGINS
ANNOUNCEMENT: Professor Wiggins is out for his August vacation time. He will be back in two weeks unless he forgets to come back. 🙂