Let's Talk TEFL

Jackie and Jennifer talk about everything ESL thanksgiving games, activities, and other lesson plan ideas. Find out all the top tips & tricks to have some great Thanksgiving ESL lessons with children as well as adults. 

Should ESL Thanksgiving activities be purely fun or educational as well? Have a listen and find out! 

Some of the Thanksgiving ESL games and activities mentioned include:

•  Vocabulary activities
• What are you thankful for? 
• Compare and contrast with other harvest festivals
• Turkey bowling
• Touch football
• Potluck party
• Gathering group project ideas
• Thanksgiving history lesson

Find Out More:
ESL Thanksgiving Lesson Plan Ideas
ESL Holiday Games and Activities Book (on Amazon)
Jackie on YouTube
ESL Speaking on Pinterest
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
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Jackie and Jennifer talk about everything ESL Halloween games, activities, and other lesson plan ideas. Find out all the top tips & tricks to have somen great Halloween ESL lessons with children as well as adults. 

Should ESL Halloween activities be pure fun or educational as well? Have a listen and find out! 

Some of the Halloween ESL games and activities mentioned include: 

• The candy jar
• Songs and chants
• Would you rather?
• Scary stories
• Regular lesson plan stuff with a Halloween theme
• Candy tasting
• Touching creepy things
• Charades/Pictionary

Find Out More:
ESL Halloween Lesson Ideas
ESL Holiday Games and Activities Book (on Amazon)
Jackie on YouTube
ESL Speaking on Pinterest
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
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Halloween Fonts 

If you teach English, then I'm sure you need more fun and engaging ESL games, activities, teaching tips and advice. Eric from Etacude English Teachers joins me and shares his ideas for Mother’s and Father’s Day lessons, along with plenty of tips, tricks, and solid advice for teaching in general. 

We talk about connecting with parents and also how to connect English to real life outside the classroom. Eric has lots of great ideas and is quite inspiring. His students are lucky to have him! 

We talk about making cards, writing letters, coupon books, biographies, and more. Have a listen and you're sure to find some inspiration for a Mother’s, Father’s or parent’s Day lesson plan. Thanks so much for joining us Eric and I hope that everyone listening finds this episode as helpful as I did. 

You can find Eric online here:
Etacude English Teachers (check out his popular live streams for English teachers on Sunday nights)
Instagram
Website

Podcast information and more resources:
101 ESL Activities for Kids (on Amazon)
ESL Speaking Activities
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
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If you teach English to children, then I'm sure you need more fun and engaging ESL games and activities. Stuart from TEFL Lemon joins me and shares his top 5 ESL activities for young learners, along with plenty of tips, tricks, and solid advice for teaching the young ones!

We talk about the box, the ball and sack, make a match, running dictation, and production line. Have a listen and you're sure to find an activity or game to take with you to your very next English class! Thanks so much for joining us Stuart and I hope you find this episode as helpful as I did. 

You can find Stuart online here:

TEFL Lemon (website)
TEFL Lemon (YouTube channel)

Podcast information and more resources:

101 ESL Activities for Kids (on Amazon)
ESL Speaking Activities for Children
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
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Find out everything you need to know about teaching English in Spain with Jaime from ESL Teacher 365. We talk about the various kinds of jobs, how she ended up teaching ESL in Spain, some activities for the classroom, and then her future plans in the world of education.  You can find her on YouTube or Instagram. 

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about TEFL opportunities in Spain with us Jaime! We really appreciate it.  Give her a follow on the socials and be sure to check out her website too.

Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
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Teaching ESL in Spain (more information)

Do your students often ask you how they can improve their English skills? Here is the advice that we give them,  including tips for keeping a journal, extensive listening and reading, setting SMART goals and lots more.

Learning English
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
Study Tips to Learn English Faster  (on Amazon)
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Join Jackie and Jennifer as they talk about everything teaching sentence structure to English learners. They have a ton of ESL sentence structure games, activities and lesson plan ideas so that you can teach English grammar in style and help students build better sentences!

Find Out More:
ESL Sentence Building Games and Activities
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities and Games  (on Amazon)
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Join Jackie and Jennifer as they talk about games and activities you can use for spring holiday lessons in your ESL/EFL/TEFL classes. Find out the best Easter, Valentine's Day, New Year's, St. Patrick's Day, Groundhog Day ideas and more.

Have some more fun with students of all ages and levels with these spring holiday ideas for English lessons!

Find Out More:

ESL Holiday Games and Activities Book (on Amazon)
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
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Teaching vocabulary is key to helping students learn English! If you don't know enough vocabulary, it will be difficult to do anything else. Find out all the tips, tricks, games and activities you need to help students master English vocabulary.

Find Out More:
ESL Vocabulary Games and Activities
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
ESL Vocabulary Activities for Kids  (on Amazon)
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Find out all the details you need to know about how to teach ESL listening, including a listening lesson plan template, tips & tricks, along with some of our go-to websites, games and activities. Level up your TEFL listening classes in style!

Find Out More:
ESL Listening Games and Activities
Jackie on YouTube
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
ESL listening Activities for Teenagers and Adults (on Amazon)
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Do you want more engaging and interactive ESL speaking games and activities for children? Of course! Drop in on a conversation between Jackie and Jennifer as they share their favourite ones with you. 

Find Out More:
Jackie on TikTok
Teach Travel Learn (on YouTube)
ESL Speaking Games for Kids
101 ESL Activities for Kids (on Amazon)
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Do you struggle when it comes to teaching pronunciation and aren't sure how to go about it? Not sure which errors to correct? Want to help students with pron but aren't sure how? Skip right over those pronunciation exercses in the textbook (like Jackie)? We have the answers!

Join Jackie as she talks to Catherine Steele from English Pronunciation for Success as she gives her top tips for teaching pron to English learners.

Learn more:
Top 7 Reasons Why North American English Speakers Can't Understand You
Catherine Steele on LinkedIn
Jackie Bolen on Instagram
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Jackie and Jennifer talk fun games to play in class! Learn how to have interesting, engaging ESL/EFL lessons for kids, teenagers or adults with these games and activities. 

Find out More:
27 Fun Games to Play in Class (Blog Post)
39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Kids (on Amazon)
Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Check out Jennifer and Michelle's chat about teaching in Korea, Toronto, and online. Michelle specializes in SAT prep for non-native English speakers.

Find Michelle at:
International Tester (her website)
Teachers Pay Teachers
Instagram

Also, be sure to check out:
Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Jackie at: YouTube
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Find out all the tips and tricks you need for teaching ESL speaking, including speaking activities, general tips and an ESL speaking lesson plan template. Teach English speaking in a student-centred style to all ages and levels with these ideas from Jackie and Jennifer.

Some of our favourite ESL speaking activities include:

Board Games
Surveys

Also, be sure to check out:
39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Adults (on Amazon)
39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Speaking Activities for Kids (on Amazon)
Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Jackie and Jennifer talk about everything ESL reading, including general tips, activities, along with an ESL reading lesson plan template. Teaching English reading to all levels and ages in style with these tips and tricks! And of course, don't forget to have a look at Breaking News English, the gold mine for everything teaching ESL/EFL reading. 

Check out the following resources:

ESL Reading Games and Activities (blog article)
ESL Reading Activities for Teenagers and Adults (book on Amazon)
ESL Reading Activities for Kids (book on Amazon)

Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Find Jackie at: https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Bolen/e/B00PHYOM5I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Jackie and Sally talk about everything ESL resumes, cover letters and getting an English teaching or administration job in Canada. We also talk about making the transition from teaching in Korea to teaching in Canada and what that experience was like.

Find Jackie at: https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Bolen/e/B00PHYOM5I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Let's Talk TEFL info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Forgetting materials at home. The photocopier is broken. You get a new class 5 minutes before it's supposed to start. The material is too difficult or too easy.

These are common things that happen to all English teachers but the good news is that it doesn't have to mean disaster. There are some simple solutions to these difficult ESL teaching situations.

Find out what to do in all these emergency English teaching situations, keep your cool and make it appear like nothing is wrong at all!

Need some last-minute, no-prep, no materials ESL games and activities to have up your sleeve? This is the book that you're going to want to check out this book on Amazon: English Teacher Emergency.

Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Find Jackie at: https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Bolen/e/B00PHYOM5I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Jackie and Jennifer talk about everything ESL Jigsaw Activities and Games, also known as Information Gap activities. Find out what a jigsaw activity is and why you might want to consider using them in class. Plus, some tips and tricks for everything information gap ESL!

Want to know more about jigsaw activities? Want to check out some of the best options for information gap ideas to use in class?  Have a look here:
https://www.eslactivity.org/information-gap-activities/

Task-Based teaching book: 39 Task-Based Teaching and Learning Activities
Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Find Jackie at: https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Bolen/e/B00PHYOM5I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/

Join Jackie and William as they talk about teaching English in the Middle East, including job opportunities, qualifications required, and what it's like to actually live there.

Find Jennifer at: https://www.teachtravellearn.com/
Find Jackie at: https://www.amazon.com/Jackie-Bolen/e/B00PHYOM5I/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
Podcast info: https://www.eslactivity.org/podcast/