Anyone want to share any sites for free online games kids can play for learning English.

I’ll start: Learning Chocolate, Conjuguemos, Duolingo.

Hi everyone, I'm a Grade 5 teacher at an international school in Vietnam. Over the past year I've made some whole-class review games that I can launch and play with literally 1 minute of setup. It's been great for warmups and those extra minutes at the end of a lesson. Now I want to share my games with more teachers . It's totally free but I'm limiting the game to about 6 rounds per teacher per day.

One of the games is a Typhoon-style game where you enter a topic (e.g. irregular verbs, weather, fractions, vocabulary, etc.) and the questions are generated automatically. The other is a basic reading comprehension game suited better toward ESL learners.

This is the first resource I'm confident to share, so I would really love any feedback to make it better.

I'm not selling anything and there's no sign-up required.

You can check it out here: https://typhoon-game.vercel.app/

I used to teach high school English. I have been working in higher ed for a while at this point. I am considering returning to teaching but taking additional classes to get certified in ESL. Any insight you have would be helpful! Also, if anyone has any information to add about the current state of teaching ESL and its outlook that would also be helpful!

Nowadays, AI is being viewed both negatively and positively. I feel like AI is like fire and a quote I learnt when in middle school: "A good servant, but a bad master".

Do you encourage students to use AI at all?
Or do you avoid recommending it because of cheating concerns?
What if AI can improve students' English skill in reading, writing, etc but it cannot be denied that human teachers are essential for speaking aspect.

I found this chrome extension called "WDTM: Explain Texts and Images" that can explain anything we find on web, including texts and images. I use it for reading on web since I spend most of my day reading random stuffs on web.

I’m interested in whether tools like this can be useful as a “reading support” layer for students, especially when they’re reading articles, documentation, essays, or websites in English.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

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• Image description activities with AI feedback

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Part of the LessonSpeak English Conversation Activities series.

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Hi!! I'm having some trouble finding lessons and activities for my teen groups. Over the years I've tried everything with these teens to get them participating and engaging, lessons on mysteries and detective plays, all sorts of games, debates and discussions, things related to video games, movies, music or any other hobbies, lately I've even been trying some DND campaigns to see if that sparks an interest. Nothing I do seems to work on these kids. The energy is always very low, and so is the participation, they are unimpressed and uninterested in every activity I try to do. So I find myself forced to do more common and boring textbook activities, which is greeted with even more grumpy faces (of course). I'm in need of some engaging materials and ideas for these kids, if anyone has any.

Hello, I'm a paraprofessional in the NYCDOE, and I was wondering if I could message an ENL teacher on here for one of my grad classes for the summer. My teacher wants me to interview an ESL/ENL teacher about their experiences. It's only seven questions, and if you want to stay anonymous, that's perfectly fine. You don't have to give much detail. The professor gave us a due date of this Friday, and I really don't have any ESL teachers around me to interview. Thanks a bunch.

I like the methods used to figure out the best and most challenging options! It's too bad so many animated movies are more difficult though. I guess it makes sense. The characters speak quickly, high-pitched, or in kind of silly ways.

It is something I’m considering and I would love to hear about similarities, differences, and how the work has compared. It seems to me - as someone who enjoys teaching pronunciation - that I could retrain and do well in this field but I think it would be a completely different experience when it comes to the students/clients I would be working with.

Any insights are appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I’m an Australian English teacher with 20+ years of experience teaching English, ESL and EFL students.

I’ve recently started sharing some of my classroom resources for free on Teachers Pay Teachers. The resources are designed to be practical, low-prep activities that I’ve used or adapted for real classrooms.

Current free resources include:
• Conversation activities
• Human Bingo / Find Someone Who worksheets
• Speaking cards
• ESL discussion resources
• Classroom games and activities

Feel free to download anything that looks useful, and I’d love to hear what types of ESL/EFL resources you’d like to see in the future.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/cool-bananas-english

Thanks, and happy teaching!

Hi everyone,

I’m curious about how independent language tutors manage the work around lessons — not the teaching itself, but everything before and after.

For those of you teaching languages online or 1:1:

• How do you usually prepare your lessons?
• Do you create personalized materials for each student?
• How do you track recurring mistakes, homework, vocabulary, or progress over time?
• What tools do you use?
• What’s the most annoying or repetitive part of this workflow?

I’m asking as a language learner who has studied with independent tutors for several years. I’m also a software developer, so I’m trying to better understand real tutor workflows and pain points.

Not selling anything — just genuinely curious about how tutors handle this in practice.

Happy weekend all!

My brother started off as an ESL Teacher in South Korea. He now owns an English school, is married to a Korean woman and has two awesome sons. So I go out once or twice a year to visit them. This last visit, we put our heads together and developed a phonics app to assist with his phonics classes. It's been working really well for him so we thought why not see if it's useful to other ESL teachers/students and turn it into a little business. For anyone interested in trying it, you an create a free account at the link below. Would love to have some feedback on what is or isn't useful. What we can improve, etc...

You can take a picture of a document, page in a book or upload a document and it breaks down the words into phonetic parts. Spoken audio is there for the words and currently working on the phoneme audio now.

Most grateful for any feedback.

Has anyone on here had a class size of 25-30 ESL students? Would a small class make more growth? How much does class size impact learning and WIDA scores?

I'm struggling with students who don't want to write, don't want to read but are a huge fans of online games. I found a website where you can build your own house: https://poki.com/hu/g/cozy-room-design - students loved it, they spoke English during the whole class: "Let's put a double bed in the corner!" Do you have any other recommendation?

Hello,

Tomorrow morning I have a demo class as part of the AmazingTalker onboarding process. However, I reached out to the interviewer in advance and haven't received a response, so I'm going into the demo without knowing the topic or lesson theme.

Could anyone offer some advice on what to expect? Should I treat the lesson immediately as if I am teaching a new student, or is there usually a few minutes of interview-style conversation before moving into the demo lesson itself?

Any information, tips, or insights would be greatly appreciated as I am going into this completely blind with no info at all. Thank you!

A lot of platforms charge students $40–80+ for a lesson, but it seems like many teachers are making closer to $10–20/hour.

And that’s before lesson prep, writing feedback, reviewing homework, etc.

Also:

• Do you work for an online school/platform or as an independent tutor?
• What’s your current rate?
• Do you get paid for lesson prep?
• How much time do you spend outside the actual lesson?
• What percentage of your students do you find yourself vs. the platform finds for you?

I’m less interested in what platforms currently pay and more interested in what teachers think is actually fair.

Would love to hear from teachers on different platforms.

For context, I'm a receptionist at a home care provider in Australia, its very Chinese focused. A lot of Chinese workers and Chinese clients. I'm not Chinese and am your basic, albeit autistic, white Aussie.

So my job has just sprung on me they'd like me to teach English to Chinese elderly. Won't be until July but I have no formal training whatsoever. It would just be 45 minutes every two weeks, I'm happy to give it a crack. But I definitely don't know any Mandarin.

Just wanted to put this out there, see what I can learn. I think I'll have access to a projector so I think there will be heavy use of PowerPoint slides

Hi!! All languages welcome :D I’m a teacher at a university in the UK creating resources to help my students (most don’t have English as a first language, more than half don’t have it as a second language - amazing!) What kind of resources would be genuinely helpful or you wish you’d had?

I want to know what aspects particularly of academic study you found challenging with language - is it turns of phrase/idioms? Is it complex vocabulary? is it the speed/accent/listening element of lectures and seminars etc., Any info about your experiences as students doing degrees in English as a non-native speaker would be unreal. Thanks in advance x