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Winter/Summer Camps Complete Package

Your co-teachers right about now are asking you what you are going to do for your English lessons during winter camps, and they want a [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools Guess Who

Next week we’re going to be giving another presentation for the Gepik Orientation, so here’s a video in the spirit of helping teachers. Here’s another [...]

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Teaching English in Korean Middle Schools – Battleship

We have received a lot of questions about teaching English in public schools. If we don’t speak Korean, how do we communicate with our students? [...]

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Hobbies Game

Students ask each other about their hobbies through this fun guessing game. Take a few minutes at the beginning the class to explain the rules, [...]

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Weather and Future Tense

Students talk about the weather, the future, and play an intense game for both. This was a lesson used for an open class, so if [...]

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Board Games

Students can practice either past tense, passive structure, or vacation talk through a gameboard and dice. Fully editable templates, if you’d like to change it [...]

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Future Jobs Puzzle

Students solve the puzzle by putting the words in the right order. Every word has a numerical value. Those numbers are plugged into a formula, [...]

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Midterm Review

Students prepare for the midterm exam by playing a fun game that gets the whole class moving. Basically, the lesson prepares students for the multiple [...]

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Time Stamps and Hobbies

Students play Pictionary and another nameless but fun game to discuss their hobbies.

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Boggle

Teach students how to play Boggle; comes with handout and powerpoint presentation. Basically, this is like the wordsearches that they’re used to, only this one [...]

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Passive Structure

Students brush up on active and passive structure through a team-guessing game.

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Icebreakers and Introductions

Introduce yourself with this game, then have your students introduce themselves through this handout. Great for starting off your summer or winter camps or your [...]

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Middle School Christmas Jumble

The exams are now finished at my school, and with the exams so are the textbooks finished. Yet, oddly, we still have to teach classes, [...]

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Middle School Jeopardy Template

There are a couple of factors that brought about a game of Jeopardy instead of something more fun. My English Classroom is being remodeled right [...]

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Middle School Password Games

We’ve been mighty busy over the past week, so please forgive the lack of activity here. Most of that busy time was spent in tweaking [...]

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Middle School Hobbies Pictionary

Here’s this week’s lesson plan, but first, a bit of explanation: there’s only a lesson plan for the first graders, since the second graders are [...]

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Korean Middle School Halloween Bingo

Hopefully this isn’t too late for those that need it. It’s Halloween on Friday, so here’s a lesson plan for you Korean Middle School teachers. [...]

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ESL Lessons for Public School Teachers

After many hours of difficult work, the ESL Resources section is finally up and ready to go. We have compiled our lesson plans and materials, [...]

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