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What To Do When Teaching English in China Stops Being Fun

It often happens after one year. For some ESL teachers in China, it may even occur after six months. No matter how excited you are about teaching, it is inevitable. Eventually, you are going to feel ‘burned out’ and tired of having to expend so much energy preparing for classes and delivering lessons. When you reach this [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — Internet Love

Level: Intermediate to Advanced Adults
Internet love is a fascinating ESL Conversation Topic that your Chinese students are sure to enjoy talking about.
Warmup: Give your students a few profiles (in English of course) from a popular dating website like Match.com and go over some of the details. Make sure your students understand any new vocabulary words. [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — The Titanic

Level: Intermediate to Advanced
The Titanic is a topic that students always enjoy talking about in class. If you direct the discussion in the right direction, you can have a great conversation about this famous sunken ship.
 Warmup: Ask the students if they have seen the movie Titanic. Show them some pictures or multimedia of the ship and [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — Consumer Rights

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 [...]

Why Preparing for your ESL Class is Important

I need to make a confession. It is time to humble myself. Sometimes I am not a good ESL teacher. Why? Quite simply, I am often lazy. I do not want to prepare for my class. After all, I am teaching my own language. I should be able to make something up on the spot, [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — Family Relations

Level : Intermediate – Advanced
Age: 13-Adult
This topic helps you to learn more about your students. It also allows you to share about differences between families in your home country and China.
Warmup: Briefly introduce your family to the students. Talk about your relationship with varous members of your family including your brothers, sisters, grandparents, etc. Ask [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — Being a Good Samaritan

ESL Topic – – Being a Good Samaritan
You will find that “being a Good Samaritan” is a concept that is foreign to most Chinese people. China is a country where people will watch an event transpire but rarely lend a helping hand. This is a good way to help students think about doing something for [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — The Future

Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Talking about the future is fun because it allows students to use their imaginations.
Warmup: Print off an article from the internet that was written about the future 40 or 50 years ago. Ask the students to read the article and then discuss which predictions are true now.
Questions to ask:

Can we predict the [...]

ESL Conversation Topic — Childhood

Level: Basic-Intermediate
This topic will most likely bring some passionate responses from students. Be compassionate and sensitive.
Questions to discuss:

Did you have a good or bad childhood?
What makes a childhood good or bad in China?
How do parents discipline their children in China?
When you have children (or if you have children), what do you do differently than your [...]

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