A glimpse of how I do it #1

A glimpse of how I do it #1
Welcome! In these series of posts I will be sharing the steps I follow in teaching different skills to my students (In Sha Allah). Let’s start off with article or formal writing. First of all, I teach them basic tools of formal writing, the kind of language they should avoid and the kind of language… ...

ESL Article: Should exams be abolished?

ESL Article: Should exams be abolished?
Contributed by Mr Ahmed Nasir, Bileddhoo School. Proofread by eslmojo.com Exams are good for you or are they? How would you feel if schools stopped conducting the exams? Would you be relieved or dumfounded at the thought of it? Like many of you, I am of the opinion that schooling would be meaningless if our… ...

iESL Lesson – Passive Voice 2

iESL Lesson - Passive Voice
Imagine taking your students through a scary story about a scary ghost and they get to learn the most important passive structures of the English language. At the same time, when they do a follow up exercise, they get to learn a bit about Islamic ideas and facts. The exercise is designed in such as ...

Narrative Letters – Peer-analysis checklist

Narrative Letters - Peer-analysis checklist
A good narrative letter, can be compared to a phone call! How? Well, it’s just like you telling some “hot news” to a close friend of yours. Will you wait for a month to give hot news? Probably not, right? So would it be okay to start your narrative with “It’s been ages since I… ...

ESL Teacher’s Book 3rd Ed

ESL Teacher's Book 3rd Ed
This Teacher’s book supports the third editions of the IGCSE English as a Second Language Coursebook 1 and Workbook 1 (Level 1) and Coursebook 2 and Workbook 2 (Level 2). The Level 1 and Level 2 books together form a complete and comprehensive course for students who are taking the IGCSE English as a Second Language (E2L) examination. Download [download id=”332″]… ...

ESL Candidate Responses

ESL Candidate Responses
  The main aim of this booklet is to exemplify standards for those teaching Cambridge IGCSE English as a Second Language, and to show how different levels of candidates’ performance relate to the subject’s curriculum and assessment objectives. In this booklet a range of candidate responses has been chosen to exemplify grades C, E and F for ...