If I Were a Carpenter (and you were learning the unreal present conditional…)

Here’s one more exercise set to Bobby Darrin’s “If I Were a Carpenter”  for those students learning the unreal present conditional.

Individualized Instruction Model for Adult ESL

New Tech Tools in Classroom Can Be a Game Changer is an article from the 10-2-11 Miami Herald  that calls for innovation in the way our schools deliver instruction.  This article can’t help but excite even the complacent.   But, how can we use the Khan model to develop individualized instruction for our adult ESL students?  [...]

If I Ruled the World – A Listening Activity for Learning Conditionals

My high-intermediate/advanced students have told me how much they enjoy learning grammar and vocabulary with music, so I decided to develop another fill-in-the-blank listening activity for them, this time stressing the conditional tense verbs in the song, “If I Ruled the World” sung by Tony Bennett and Celine Dion, and written by Leslie Bricusse and [...]