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Level: Beginner - Advanced
If you want to give your voice a rest and let your students have some fun practicing their English then this ESL topic is perfect for you!
Warmup:
Distribute the copies of the questions to your students and explain to them that today they will be ‘mingling’ with each other. Tell them that the [...]
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Having a trivia contest can be a good way to stimulate some healthy competition amongst your students and have some great fun! Just make sure you are using appropriate questions for the levels that you are teaching.
Warmup: Introduce the world ‘trivia’ to your students and tell them about some well known trivia [...]
Level — Beginner - Advanced
Talking about the weather is a topic that should spark some interest in your Chinese students. After all, it seems that at any given time, some sort of natural disaster relating is taking place in China.
Warmup: Print off an article about a natural phenemenon such as a tornado, hurricane or flood. If [...]
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Yes, getting old might be a depressing subject, but usually the sadder topics are the ones that get my students thinking and communicating.
Warmup: Ask your students if they have grandparents and how they interact with them. Talk to your students about the concept of aging and ask them to give you examples [...]
Level: Beginner - Advanced
The ESL conversation topic of “tell about a time when…” is a good way to get all of your students talking. I have used this topic in both beginner and intermediate conversation classes.
Warmup: Give each student a copy of the questions below. Run through each question to make sure that everyone understands [...]
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Discussing the Seven Deadly Sins in your ESL Conversation Class will make for an interesting social topic because it will lead to a discussion about morality in China.
Warmup: Introduce the Seven Deadly Sins to your students and talk a little bit about where they came from. You may have to define the word [...]
Level: Beginner to Advanced
Everyone likes hypotheticals, right? I wrote some fun hypotheticals for your ESL Chinese students but of course you should change them as you see fit.
Warmup: Teach your students the word ‘hypothetical’ and then divide them up into groups. Give each group (or each person) a copy of the ESL hypothetical questions below [...]
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Holding a debate in conversation class is an excellent way to ‘mix things up a bit’ and get all of your students involved.
Warmup: Introduce the concept of ‘debating’ and explain its significance in the political arena. You should also introduce the expression “to play the devil’s advocate” and explain to your students that [...]
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
The ESL topic of Social Problem Solving is a great way to give your voice a rest and get all of your students involved in the class.
Warmup: Divide students into four groups and give a copy of the following scenarios to each group. If you have enough copies, it would be good to give [...]
Level: Advanced
This topic of consumer rights should provide you a chance to show some differences between your culture and Chinese culture since consumer rights in China only generally exist at the big chain stores.
Warmup: Tell about a time that you had to return something in your home country as well as in China. Point out the differences [...]
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