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Website updates, ESL Brains news as well as some tips and tricks on teaching English.
Technology can help bridge the gap between offline and online worlds. We simply need to equip ourselves with tools for engaging online classes. Read More
Visuals not only spark conversation, but are also a great lesson intro idea, can be used to raise interest, teach and practise vocabulary, or support ideas in a debate. Read More
‘Grammar is fun!’ is not something that English teachers often hear from their students. But it doesn't have to be like that. Read to learn what we think you could do to teach grammar in a fun way. Read More
To make browsing our lessons easier, we have decided to add two new categories to the website search filter as well as introduce a completely new filter. Read More
If you’re looking for some new ideas or activities for teaching conversational English one on one, these tasks will definitely inspire you. Read More
Whether you teach low-level or advanced students, use these five speaking fluency activities to help them communicate better in English. You can use the activities as warm-ups, fillers, and whenever you feel that your students (and you!) need them. Read More
Real-life resources can be successfully used both in ESL lessons and outside the classroom to develop students’ language skills. Read how authentic materials can benefit your students. Read More
Some of you might be familiar with our Critical Reading Club (aka CRC). The idea behind it is that students read an article before the class and then discuss its content and share their thoughts in the classroom. Previously, we published posts on our Instagram but now it's here! Read More
Discover six simple revision ideas you can use at the beginning or end of a lesson to consolidate your students’ knowledge and make them feel more confident about the vocabulary they learn. Read More
Learn how to use our e-lesson plans efficiently, as well as discover some differences and similarities between the structure of our worksheets and e-lessons. Read More
Discover our Critical Reading Club (CRC). Learn how to use it in your classroom and how it can benefit your students. Read More
Using group activities with one-to-one classes may not seem particularly exciting or even doable for some teachers. Have you ever wondered how to adapt group activities to provide variety, as well as ensuring your one-to-one students enjoy and benefit from them? Read to discover our tips to consider. Read More
Discover websites that can maximise your students’ learning opportunities and bring a little spark and creativity into the classroom. Read More
The top requested change content-wise by far were low-level (A2) lesson plans. And in the beginning of this year, we decided it's high time we tried to tackle that. Read More
If you are new here and you’ve never seen ESL Brains lesson plans, then you’re in the best place to discover what we do. At ESL Brains we publish ready-to-use ESL lesson plans and worksheets for adult learners that tackle up-to-date and thought-provoking topics. The core of our content is based on authentic videos from YouTube/TED. Read More
What’s the story? For some time, we’re wondering how many teachers out there are also material writers and wanted to discover their approaches to creating lessons. We figured that to motivate some of you, but also to recognize your work and talent, we’ll do it in a form of a competition. And that’s how we [&h [...] Read More
Teaching English online now I started teaching online three years ago and I came to really enjoy this format. Despite its downsides, there are many benefits for teachers of doing lessons online. The obvious one is just the sheer amount of time you save when you don’t need to commute endlessly across the city. Plus, […] Read More
As you probably have already realized we love using videos for teaching English. You may wonder why? First of all, that’s how people consume media nowadays. We stopped reading and turned to video (YouTube) and audio (podcasts) as the primary type of online content we get, whether these are vlogs, how-tos, educational videos or news [...] Read More
