The JimmyESL Blog
Classroom tips, teaching advice and everything else that isn’t a worksheet. New posts added regularly.
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The Best Zoom Tips & Tools for Teachers
In the so-called “new normal” we’re all living now, where physical distance has become a sheer necessity, the popular application Zoom is…
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Weather Idioms List with Meanings
Free Weather Idioms List with Examples for ESL teachers and students, to learn idioms or prepare ESL lesson plans. List of Weather…
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House & Furniture Idioms List
Free House & Furniture Idioms List for ESL teachers and students, to learn idioms or prepare ESL lesson plans. Idioms List Relating…
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ESL Cooking Vocabulary: All Resources You Need for Your Lesson
Planning to do an ESL lesson about cooking? You want to give your students a practical and appealing introduction to cooking vocabulary?…
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The Extensive Guide to Stress Management for Teachers
Let’s face it- teaching is an amazing amazingly stressful job. Working as a teacher for many years, I always feel torn between…
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Your Guide to ESL Classroom Rules for A Better Learning Environment
Is chaos in the classroom your worst nightmare? As a teacher, you, of course, know that rules are the key to a…
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15 Engaging Community Building Activities for the Classroom
“We’re in this together!” is a phrase we all like and need to hear. Not only that it says that we’re supported…
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom
If you’re a classroom teacher or tutor, then you know how important it is to create lessons that interest and excite your…
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Interactive Learning: Methods & Tools to Improve Collaboration
It’s a Tuesday morning. You have a PowerPoint that you put a ton of work into, and you’re teaching your favorite class,…
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Easy Classroom Procedures To Streamline Your Class and Preserve Your Sanity
Have you ever been in a classroom full of young learners? When 20 or so preschoolers are in a room together, things…
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Combating Teacher Burnout: How to Fight Back When The Classroom Blues Hits
Do you have days — or weeks — when you feel like you’ve just hit a wall? Students you usually think are…
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ESL Icebreakers: 8 Games & Activities For Students of All Ages
Tell me if this sounds familiar to you: You’re standing at the front of your ESL classroom (or sitting at your computer…