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I have had no experience with illiterate adults, but a search on the Internet for "teaching illiterate adults to read" brought up a number of interesting articles.

Idioms and verbal phrases that are often idioms are very common in English. There are a lot of books and online lists that purport to list the most common ones or most useful ones or the best ones or . . . .; however, there is one list that is based on solid research. The list by Martinez and Schmit...

I worked at a university (in a non-teaching capacity) on a contract basis and taught a few individuals privately after I passed the mandatory retirement age. There were no legal or other problems with that. (I am kdammers -- sometimes tefl.net signs me in one way; sometimes the other.)

I don't understand this game at all. Maybe for people who play computer games the objective and rules are clear, but I don't see what this has to do with learning English.

I find it rude or sloppy when I get a business e-mail filled with these shorthands, YKWIM? It's ABTM. On the other hand, there are certain abbreviations and acronyms that it is reasonable to assume everyone knows, e.g., MBA, USA, NASA, UN, and IRS (in the US). Also, within a specific profession ther...

1. https://stadtlandflussonline.net/

2. hangman

3. tic tac toe: In order to put in an x or a o, the player/team has to answer a question first

I would be leery of using the whole first script from 'Scrubs,' a show I'm not familiar with. As a native speaker of American English who worked in hospitals, I don't understand it. Maybe with the video included it could be explained to your students. But going into enough depth to do so would also ...

I'll second each of 22englishsam's answers. In addition, you might be asked about cultural mistakes you've made and what you've learned from them. Also, what is the hardest part of ... teaching youngsters, teaching abroad, teaching online, living abroad. What methods do you use; what is your teachin...

I just thought of another book you might consider: Erica L. Meltzer's The Ultimate Guide to SAT Grammar. It has a somewhat chatty tone. It covers the basics but also more advanced topics. If you do buy this book, be sure to get the errata list (I think it's at Meltzer's home-page). And note the foll...

Greetings: I can recommend four resources in particular. One is https://owl.purdue.edu/. This portal gives advice on lots of individual grammar topics and also has exercises to match. The other is a book: English for Everyone . This book is also available for free online. The book goes through indiv...

NPR has a recent session on its language program about who owns English and related topics:

https://www.nhpr.org/post/tower-babble- ... z#stream/0

Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and buy Market Leader . Get both the textbook and the workbook. Have your students do the same. It's not perfect, but it is good. Also, look at Linguahouse, which has a lot of both free and for-pay lesson plans in business English, but I don't think they hav...

There are myriad resources for grammar. Some are good, and some are not so good. Here are some I have found useful. English for Everyone. is a grammar book that is also available online as a free download. It is arranged by tenses, followed by other, specific topics. This means that the units have c...

"Try this...http://koreabridge.net/discussion/90-ex ... gal-contra" The text doesn't support the headline. There is no information about where the people answering this survey by ETA (Who is that?), and the only link is to something about China, not Asia in general or the other two named c...

You can find practice tests online:

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/index.html

https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams- ... eparation/

https://tac-c.ir/online-fce-practice-tests/ (I'm not familiar with this one, which is from a school in Tehran.)

Aschofield wrote: ↑09 Mar 2021, 11:54 That's strange, does it come up with an error message or does it simply just not load?

It simply doesn't load. (I hadn't seen Your reply because of all the China-scam stuff.)

1. What grades or age groups have you been a language instructor for? 2. How long have you been a language instructor? 3. How often do you use written stories in your classes for the purpose of language instruction? (Ex. children's books, short stories, novels) d. Once a week 4. How often do you use...

Nope, it doesn't work on ME either. Maybe it's either blocked by the government here or because I am on Windows 7.

Yes, winters are cold in Mongolia, but I think it is the applicant's responsibility to find out such basic things as climate. Going to Ulaanbaatar without knowing about its winters is like going to Kuwait City or Madrid without knowing about their terribly hot summers. There are certain things that ...

It won't load on my computer (in Kazakhstan, W7, Chrome).