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Speaking Activity: Conversation Cards about Books
Using speaking cards is a great way to encourage conversations among ESL learners. The cards act as guides to give the students a direction in their conversations. Below you will find conversation cards about books and reading for your ESL classroom.
Conversation Cards about Books
Let's take a look at all of the questions and possible answers.
1. What is the best book you have read recently? What is it about? Why did you like it?
Possible answer: I recently finished reading the first book of the Outlander series. It's a fantastic book about an English woman from 1945 who travels back in time to Scotland in 1745. The story is very compelling and the characters'... [Read more]
Teaching Cambridge English in a Hong Kong Kindergarten - TEFL Blog
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 Charlotte Lam
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Teaching Cambridge English in a Hong Kong Kindergarten
In Hong Kong, the education system is competitive where the majority of people try their utmost to study in a better school. They are also required to learn Cantonese, English, and Mandarin starting from kindergarten. In order to get into a renowned school, the Cambridge examination becomes an important criterion for getting into a famous school, and therefore, Cambridge English lessons become much more popular in Hong Kong city.
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Cambridge exam: Young learners
Planning Cambridge lessons for children in kindergarten
1. Choose theme book
2. Plan curriculum
3. Prepare teaching aids
Teaching Cambridge in a fun way
Resources for teachers
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Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups - TEFL Blog
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Stories for ESL Students of Different Age Groups
Stories expose the students to more language, they engage and motivate the learner, they can be used to teach the structure of a language and the concepts about print which may be different between cultures. Stories with images can also help the students anchor their knowledge about the text. Listening to stories also helps the students hear accents and how words are pronounced. However, it is important to choose the correct book or story for the students you are working with. If familiar storylines are chosen the student is more likely to understand the story. It is also important to take into consideration the interests of the students and to find text on those topics.
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Leaders Are Readers: How to Develop Children’s Interest for Reading - TEFL Blog
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Leaders Are Readers: How to Develop Children’s Interest for Reading
Reading it's a skill which we learn when we are children. Some children learn to read before they start to join the elementary school, it depends on parents always. But how we can instill a love for reading in children?
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Parents Role
Reading Activities For The Classroom
Benefits of Reading
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Parents Role
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4 Main Problems of Building Reading Habits in EFL Students
Thu, 13 Aug 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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4 Main Problems of Building Reading Habits in EFL Students
Even in the first language, it can be difficult to get children reading. There are many reasons they may turn their nose up at a book. In some way, I think most of those reasons can be boiled down to boredom.
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Personal Experience
The Importance of a Good Example
Common Challenges
1. First, it's still, quiet activity.
2. Second, for very young children, the act of reading itself can present a challenge, and the content of the book must be worth the effort they made to understand the words.
3. Third, children must be presented with a variety of book topics.
4. Lastly, reading should not be used as a punishment if you can help it.
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Reading in English for Children With Learning Difficulties - TEFL Blog
Thu, 09 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading in English for Children With Learning Difficulties
Most of us take being able to read for granted. We seldom give a thought to how the process of learning to read began in our lives. I am sure most of us will not even recall the age we began to read. For many learners experiencing some form of learning difficulty, this may seem like a mountain with no peak. I am writing this essay based on my experience of having worked with learners ranging from those with various learning challenges to those with extreme learning disabilities. One thing I have learned over the years is that giving up on a child is never an option. One is forced to think creatively and innovatively to address the challenge.
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Cultivating the Reading Culture in the ESL Setting - TEFL Blog
Tue, 07 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Cultivating the Reading Culture in the ESL Setting
A leader must read to expand his scope of knowledge, to keep abreast of what is happening in his field of expertise and around the world. Reading stimulates one's thinking and processing. Before we develop a child in his leadership ability, we must develop something more foundational – the love for reading. As an educator, I believe reading develops inquisitiveness, which in turn, develops the interest to engage, hence build confidence, even at a young age. And in the process, to nurture the child towards leadership ability.
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Undisturbed Sustained Silent Reading
Drop Everything and Read
Personal Experience
8 Points on Encouraging Reading in the Classroom
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Course Books for Business English ▷ Infographic - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Course Books for Business English
Business English is an area of English language teaching and learning that is part of the wider category of English for Specific Purposes. Unlike general English, business English focuses on the language students need in order to function in an international business setting. Students taking business English classes will generally already have a reasonable level of English language ability and course books tend to be aimed at pre-intermediate level students and above.
There are several publishers involved in producing course books for the business English classroom. The main ones are Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. These two publishers produce business English course books across a range of levels in British,... [Read more]
5 Ideas on How to Implement Stories into Your ESL Teaching - TEFL Blog
Fri, 05 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Ideas on How to Implement Stories into Your ESL Teaching
Stories provide a natural and relevant context for the exposure to English language and storytelling built on the children's innate capacity for fantasy and imaginative play, making it an essential aspect to be integrated into language lessons. Beyond just language skills, students are also able to acquire critical thinking skills such as predicting, hypothesizing, categorizing, sequencing, and inferring meaning through various storytelling activities. Stories are also used to enhance children's concentration skills and develop moral and emotional intelligence by teaching students to empathize with the characters in the story. Storytelling can be extended to include... [Read more]
How to Increase Children’s Interest in Reading? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 15 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Increase Children’s Interest in Reading?
Margaret Fuller has justly said, "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." Remarkable leaders have countless exceptional habits - one of them, is reading.
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Brain Development
Benefits of Reading
Parents Role
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Brain Development
Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase "use it or lose it" is particularly apt when it comes to your mind. The more knowledge you have, the... [Read more]
Why Reading is Considered an Important Skill to Obtain - TEFL Blog
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Alumni Experiences
Why Reading is Considered an Important Skill to Obtain
Readers are for sure leaders, not just merely for the fact of reading, but for the thinking process that comes with reading.
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Personal Point of View
Teaching Reading
Is Reading Still Popular?
Benefits of Reading
Teacher's Responsibility
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Personal Point of View
As an individual, I love reading. I love the smell of the book paper, the tiny letters and turning another page is something that I enjoy deeply. However, I didn't... [Read more]
Building Reading Awareness in Children - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Building Reading Awareness in Children
Among my most cherished childhood memories takes me back to the moment when it was time to choose a new book to get lost in before bedtime. I was lucky enough to have a bookshelf in front of which I would sit and, I thought, let the book choose me. Sometimes the calling was immediate; sometimes it took longer. I picked up random books, read the back, and smelled them; sometimes I read the first page, anything I needed to do until I found the perfect connection. Reading was one of my favorite moments of the day. Most of the time, the book I picked would be so perfect for the moment in my life that it would take all my attention the next morning.
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My Experience
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Sustaining the Habit of Reading in the Times of Coronavirus - TEFL Blog
Tue, 08 Sep 2020 Zainab Sadriwala
Alumni Experiences Teaching Ideas
Sustaining the Habit of Reading in the Times of Coronavirus
"The most challenging of the tasks during this COVID era has been to make my children read" states a frustrated Amena; a mother of two children, one in the primary years and the other in middle school. "It was much easier for me to monitor them and ask them to read and follow the schedule when they knew they had to report to their teacher. The school environment is just so integral for sustaining discipline in young people" she continues.
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1. Give your students something that interests them.
2. Schedule a set reading time.
3. Offer your child an incentive.
4. Don't let them read alone - read with them.
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Readers Are Leaders: How to Instill the Love for Reading in Children - TEFL Blog
Mon, 04 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Readers Are Leaders: How to Instill the Love for Reading in Children
As Margaret Fuller once said, "Today a reader; tomorrow a leader". Reading is a habit that has a great number of benefits. It allows an individual to gain knowledge, expand their vocabulary, improve their writing skills and reduce their mental stress among many other things. Thus, we must instill a love for reading in children from a very young age. Three main ways to do this would be to find out what their interests are and help them find books that are about their interests, to show the children how passionate you are about reading and to motivate them to read as much as possible by rewarding them for it.
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Basis of Frustration
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Reading as a Part of Leadership - TEFL Blog
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Reading as a Part of Leadership
It seems that everyone knows reading makes a person better in all aspects. Reading teaches a person about the world around them. Even if the person doesn't go traveling, he can obtain knowledge of the world by reading books. Reading can also help a person develop empathy and so on. Many educators say that children's reading is the beginning of a successful child's life.
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Be an example
Master your storytelling skill
Take students on a library tour
Encourage peer presentations
Create a home library
Consider kids' interests
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Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings - TEFL Blog
Fri, 29 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Common Learning Difficulties Faced in ESL Settings
Learning is always hard especially learning something new such as English learning. English is a different new language compared with Chinese, so when we are learning, definitely we will meet all kinds of difficulties in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
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Most beginners think listening is the most difficult part of English learning.
Speaking can be improved dramatically from zero in a short time but it's quite difficult to speak accurately.
For most Chinese people, English reading is not as difficult as listening or speaking.
Writing is always the hardest part of English for Chinese students.
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What are the Advantages of Reading Stories to Children When They are Learning English? - TEFL Blog
Fri, 29 May 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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What are the Advantages of Reading Stories to Children When They are Learning English?
Is it useful to read stories to my 3-years-old students? This is a question that many teachers ask themselves when considering reading in English in early childhood. Through careful self-assessment during my years of teaching experience, I have found out that reading stories in the classroom is a powerful resource when learning a new language. For starters, stories grab visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners' attention when seeing the images and connecting words and feelings. It is also worth considering that books enrich readers' vocabulary and strengthen their language skills. Last but not least, readers are motivated, influenced, and... [Read more]
Reasons Why Passive Reading is Important in Childhood - TEFL Blog
Mon, 23 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reasons Why Passive Reading is Important in Childhood
Not only in an imaginative sense and for pleasure but also in the development of important literacy skills. Reading provides growth of knowledge, a pleasurable hobby to escape from our busy lives and the development of critical thinking. Developing a love for books in the early years will set your child up for reading readiness and help lay the basis for your child's success inside, outside and beyond school.
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What kinds of books to choose for children
How to Stimulate an Interest in Reading for Enjoyment
1. Tell Stories to Children at an Early Age.
2. Encourage Kids to Be Curious and Imaginative.
3. Let Children Have Many Playmates.
4. Encourage Kids to... [Read more]
The Methods of Developing Speaking Skills in Kindergarten Level Children - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Methods of Developing Speaking Skills in Kindergarten Level Children
Kindergarten students are those who are typically around the age of five. From birth till five, they would have developed their sensory and speaking abilities in their mother tongue with decent fluency. Children at this age have a strong potential to gain a lot of information. They would know about 1000-2000 words by this time. At this age, they are formally introduced to reading and writing skills, group work, independent thinking, and sharing practice. Teaching children at this age can be quite challenging and fun. Vocabulary is one of the strongest predictors when it comes to speaking capacity. So, by carefully incorporating study into play we can enrich... [Read more]
One More Point of View on the Importance of Stories for English Learning in Early Childhood - TEFL Blog
Wed, 15 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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One More Point of View on the Importance of Stories for English Learning in Early Childhood
Early childhood is the period from 0-8 years old, it is a time of remarkable growth with brain development at its peak. During this stage, children are highly influenced by the environment and the people that surround them. We can say further that Early childhood education is a branch of education that relates to the teaching of children from birth to the age of eight, therefore covering infancy, kindergarten and the early school years up to grades 3. So how does storytelling come in? Well, storytelling does a lot here because this stage is very crucial to a child's early physical, socio-emotional, cognitive and linguistic development.
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Date posted:2002-10-14 | Writer: The English school of communications. | Email: [email protected]
EFL Teacher, Krakow, Tarnow, Nowu Targ, Myslenice, Katowice, Bochnia, Poland
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The English School of Communication Skills
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How to Develop the Speaking Abilities of Kindergarten Level Students - TEFL Blog
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Develop the Speaking Abilities of Kindergarten Level Students
Benjamin Franklin quoted "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
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Conversation
Support Oral Conversation
Listening activities
Interactive storytelling activities'
Vocabulary enhancement
Poems, Rhymes, and Games
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Reading Books in Early Childhood - TEFL Blog
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reading Books in Early Childhood
Stories are an important part of any culture, English speaking or not. They can be oral or written and can showcase how culture works and their history. Whether old traditional stories or new popular current stories, the tales we share with young children can shape their developing ideas and values.
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How can you and your students benefit from storytelling?
Stories in language learning
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When... [Read more]
The Importance of Narrative in Language Acquisition - TEFL Blog
Thu, 07 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Importance of Narrative in Language Acquisition
Narrativity is ubiquitous in our lives. We encounter narratives in stories, both oral and written, in films, books, television shows, and comic books. Children become acquainted with narrative from a young age, and it is closely tied with the way they learn the language.
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The Power of Stories
Language Learning Process
Stories as a Tool
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The Power of Stories
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Stories for Teaching English to Different Groups of Students - TEFL Blog
Mon, 16 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Stories for Teaching English to Different Groups of Students
Reading is one of the key elements for all English learners. By reading authentic stories and books, not only do we learn reading and understanding the text we are working with, but we also expand our vocabulary by discovering new authentic words you wouldn't be able to find in your course books, and more importantly, you can see it in context which makes it easier to remember and use those words and structures in the future.
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Younger Students
Teens and Adults
Resources
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Top Tips for Teaching Reading to Younger Groups of Students - TEFL Blog
Fri, 13 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Top Tips for Teaching Reading to Younger Groups of Students
There are four basic skills in any language: receptive skills – reading and listening, and productive skills – speaking and writing. Usually, when we learn a new language, we tend to access our learning process and result by checking how our productive skills are and forget that before we can the product, we need to receive first. Data says that the production of every 100 words in writing needs a receipt of 1000 words in reading which means to be able to produce anything, one must get as much as 10 times receipt. Similarly in listening and speaking.
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Receptive Skills: Writing vs. Reading
Decoding
Reading aloud for fluency
Learning how to read... [Read more]
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Female full time teacher required to teach TEFL in Daejeon, Korea
Date posted:2008-06-02 | Writer: Queens Story Club | Email: [email protected]
We are excited to present a rare TEFL teaching opportunity to all female native English speaking teachers who are looking to come to South Korea! Our academy Queens Story Club has created a unique environment that is different to the other English academies in South Korea. We take pride in offering an exciting, enchanting, small class sized environment where English is taught to elementary school aged children by reading story books to them. So, if you love stories, then this is a great opportunity for you to take up the chance of teaching English in South Korea. We have created a fun and relaxing way of teaching English that is pleasant and... [Read more]
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Female full time teacher required to teach TEFL in Daejeon, Korea
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The 5 Fun Circle Time Ativities for Your TEFL Classroom - TEFL Blog
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 Federico Riva
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The 5 Fun Circle Time Ativities for Your TEFL Classroom
Every preschool/ kindergarten level teacher will swear by the need for excellent constructive circle time. It sets the tone for what is to follow throughout the day. A good circle time should be welcoming, engaging, and informative. Children should not be forced into participation; instead should be drawn into it. Circle time is the classic example of a good "engage" stage in an ESA teaching style. Therefore, during circle time, you introduce a topic that is to be covered that day or week.
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1.Singing songs:
2.Storytelling:
3. Yoga:
4.Use of puppets for literacy:
5.Calendar:
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The Importance of Stories For English Learning in Early Childhood - TEFL Blog
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Importance of Stories For English Learning in Early Childhood
Storytelling has been a powerful tool for centuries. Before there was written language, humans told stories through pictures and oral sequences. Stories have the power to connect us and to stimulate empathy. Storytelling can be an important instrument for facilitating language learning, especially in early childhood. It is especially helpful in increasing student attention and empathy.
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Biological Importance
My Experience
Emotional Connection
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