Teach English Using Harry Potter Movies

Without doubt, using movies to teach English can be fun and engaging to students. With visual and audio appeal factor, students will be easily hooked. However, it largely depends on the type of movie as well as the connection to the objectives of a lesson. Here, there are three simple worksheets on vocabulary and comprehension [...]

Grammar Games for Verbs in Simple Past

This is one of the activities taken from the book “Games for Grammar Practice: A Resource Book of Grammar Games and Interactive Activities”. It’s a good activity for students to practise wide range of verbs in the simple past and habitual past with used to. It also helps to enhance student’s speaking and listening skills [...]

Grammarly: A tool to Check Grammar Errors

Though it would be almost impossible for a machine to check your English grammar for 100% accuracy, sometimes a little bit of help and advice would be very beneficial. Now, Grammarly is just what you need. Grammarly is a free Microsoft Office 2010 add-in which assists in identifying spelling and grammatical inaccuracies to ensure your [...]

40 Hepful Tips for Making Your ESL Teaching Easier and More Fun!

ESL Teaching can be a daunting task. Occasionally, teachers need some guidance and inspiration to make sure they are on the right track and not teaching merely to fulfill routine chores. Here are 40 tips from Handsonenglish.com that could help you make your ESL teaching easier and more fun.

TESLMalaysia Share and Win Contest 2010 Winners

The wait is over. Sorry for the late announcement as we were sorting out some protocol issues with our sponsors. Upon thorough evaluation and deliberation, the judges (4 of them) have chosen the following winners for the 1st TESLMalaysia Share and Win Contest 2010. In addition to that, our sponsor has also decided to give [...]

Common Errors in English Usage Part 1

As promised, this is the first of our “Common Errors in English Usage” series. The definition of errors can be very complicated and controversial, hence we will not elaborate on this technical term. Rather, we are more concerned with some usual deviations from the standard use of English, especially by ESL students. In this [...]

Technology in the ESL Classrooms: Beyond the “Wow” Factor

Recent advancement in technological innovations has indeed transformed our ESL classrooms. Various multimedia teaching tools and other gadgets are introduced into the classroom with the ultimate goal of improving teaching and learning. However, many teachers fail to use such tools effectively, as they are unable to grasp the fundamental skills of technology integration.

Using technology [...]

[Debate] More English Classes for All Schools by 2011

As published in The Star, the Ministry of Education Malaysia stated that all schools will have increased hours of English lessons per week by 2011. This is a measure taken by the ministry after the decision to abolish the implementation of Teaching Mathematics and Science in English programme beginning 2012. The ministry has recently announced [...]