Bright ideas for teachers

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Bright ideas for teaching ESL.

If you are interested in ready-made lesson plans and materials and much more to learn and to teach English this site is for you:

www.eslmania.com.

There are materials for teachers and for students:

• Classroom materials

 

• News to use(newspaper materials for the lesson)

 

 

• ESL teacher talk

 

• Idioms:

 

• (to) give someone the cold shoulder - to be cold to someone on purpose; to snub someone

 

Example 1: When Lisa saw Amber at the mall, she didn't even stop to talk to her. She really gave her the cold shoulder.

 

Example 2: I can't understand why Joe would give you the cold shoulder. I thought you two were good friends!

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• (to) get the ball rolling - to get started

 

Example 1: Let's get the ball rolling on this project. We've only got one week to finish it.

 

Example 2: If we don't get the ball rolling on our vacation plans soon, we'll end up going nowhere.

These are idioms with examples.

• Grammar

 

• Accent reduction (do you believe that you can reduce the accent in 28 days, I don’t but you can try)

 

 

• Business English

 

• ESL Books

 

Try this site and you’ll find a lot of materials to use in the classroom.

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One more interesting and useful site, especially for kids: http://www.bilingual.ru