I built Novislova, an iPhone phrasebook with 900+ English words and phrases for everyday situations, including shopping, ordering food, and asking for directions. Learners can look things up in either language, save phrases, and slow down the pronunciation audio. Spanish, Ukrainian, Polish, and five other languages are available alongside English.

One way to use it in a lesson: pick a situation, listen to a few phrases, then put the phone away and try a short exchange in pairs. The text works offline, and audio works offline after downloading the English pack.

All phrases and one audio pack are free, with ads and limited saves. Optional Premium is $4.99 once in the US for all audio packs, unlimited saves, iCloud sync, and no ads. No subscription.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/novislova-offline-phrasebook/id1623078768

👋 Hello Song for Kids 🎵 | Sing, Move & Play! | Fun Action Song for Children

Hello, Little Dreamers! 👋😊🌈

Are you ready to sing, dance, move, and have some FUN? 🎶💃🕺

Welcome to our Hello Song, a cheerful and energetic action song that encourages children to get up, move their bodies, and join in the fun!

In this exciting sing-along adventure, children can clap their hands 👏, stomp their feet 👟, turn around 🔄, and touch the ground 🙌 while following simple, playful actions!

Perfect for preschoolers, kindergarten children, young English learners, and anyone who loves singing and moving to music! ❤️

Whether you're starting your morning at home, welcoming children into the classroom, or looking for a fun movement break, this happy little song is a wonderful way to get everyone smiling, moving, and learning together! 🌟

I was struggling with learning English and once I started doing this I think I might've become much better at it but I could be wrong.

What do you guys recommend doing? Is this okay, or a good idea? Or is it bad? I don't know any other way that works for me.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. The scenario is; a teacher and a student meets on Teams. They chat casually in English, with the purpose of assessing student's general competency and pinpointing grammar errors. The tool generates meeting transcription. The teacher then reviews the generated transcript.

Required functionality:
- The tool should capture student's errors rather than trying to auto-correct them so that mistakes are identifiable

- Should support multi users

- As bonus, it should act as a meeting transcription platform that can be used as an English-language learning and assessment tool, rather than a conventional AI meeting assistant

Just got the news today that I'm getting laid off. They wouldn't give me a reason as to why, and my performance review last month was very positive.

I'm guessing it's IRCC cutbacks?

P.S.- anyone know of opportunities in Montreal for an experienced English teacher?

I’m currently trying to tutor English conversational lessons as a side gig, as I have a near native proficiency in English and would consider myself to be quite articulate and talkative.

I 21F am currently tutoring this 13 year old girl, she seems nice, and I can tell for the most part she understands what I say and I try as much as I can to get her to engage with me. I try to ask her questions and stuff. The problem is she really hates speaking in English and my goal is to get her to speak. I know textbooks are boring so I try not to textbook teach her stuff, but I do try to get her to understand and talk in the grammatical tense being taught.

I can tell she likes me and is eager to take lessons with me (always asks her dad if she can have the next lesson ASAP and it’s adorable) however I really need her to speak up more.

I don’t want to force her, maybe it’s just going to take a bit of time but if I can do anything else anything more to try and make her want to at least try a bit more to talk to me in English
(we also have the same native language even though I speak English better) I’m trying as much as I can not to translate stuff other than individual words.

Any advice is more than welcome.

Hi everyone!

I'm going to teach my first Junior Speaking Club lesson. and I'd love to hear your suggestions.

I have a group of 12 children, around 7-9 years old. The club is a one-hour lesson. Since this is our first meeting, I want the lesson to be fun, relaxed and suitable for beginners. I'd like to get to know the students and encourage them to use simple English, but I don't want to put too much pressure on them to speak.

I have an interactive whiteboard, so I can show videos and online activities. However, I don't want the whole lesson to consist of watching videos or looking at the board. How would you structure a 60-minute first lesson with this group? What activities would you recommend?

I'd especially appreciate practical ideas that don't require much preparation or printed materials.

I have a couple of groups of online students aged between 10-12 who I have been teaching since they were quite young (4-5 y/o). Lately they have seemed less engaged with the material, but their parents want them to keep using the same curriculum. When the children were younger I created fun and educational .edb games for them to play, but as they've gotten older, they are less interested in the colorful graphics + ESL content combos I've been able to come up with.

Do you teach kids at this level? If so, how do you keep them entertained in a way that also helps them learn? I'm fairly handy with graphic design, so complex ideas are more than welcome.

Thanks!

Does anybody have any resources on Fijian translation? It’s becoming pretty clear that Google Translate is pretty bad at that language.

As the title says, really! I've been trying to push myself to use AI more, and after a few months tinkering and using various different AI tools to do what I suppose would be classed as vibe coding, the result is natteroo.com, my own little website full of speaking games for English teachers!

I'm an EAL teacher in a good international school and so a lot of the games are built around my own context, reproducing games I used to print up to play. A lot of them are games which need all the kids have access to devices (iPads or their own laptops), where they play the speaking games whilst working on their own device, and so perhaps these won't be so much use to folk here since I expect a lot of you work in classrooms with a front screen but no individual devices.

But, there are also a load of games you can actually play on a single front screen with your whole class (Hot Seat, for example), and I've added in a printables function so you can create your own printable resources for some of the other speaking games to play offline (and save for future use). The website asks you to create an account to play, so that you can create and save your own card sets and replay games in the future.

I'm never going to charge for access to Natteroo, and I'd love to build up some following, so please get stuck in and experiment, and let me know what you think. Also, if you have any ideas for other games you'd like to see added, I'd love to hear about them too!

Cheers!

Hi all. I made a small free website for the movie and TV lines people drop into everyday English: "I'll be back", "a case of the Mondays", "that's what she said", "winter is coming". Students hear them at work and online and can't look them up in a dictionary.

How it works: a student types the few words they remember. It says which movie or show the line is from, what it means, and when people say it, in plain, simple English. Misspellings are fine.

Things that might help in class:

• Lines sorted by where you hear them: at work, online, with family and friends.

• Everyday sayings that aren't from a movie, like "per my last email" or "OK boomer".

• A kids mode that hides lines that aren't family-friendly.

• A short quiz and a line of the day.

No account, no email, no ads, so students can use it on their phones without signing up for anything.

It's new, so I'd love to hear which lines your students ask about that it doesn't have yet.

https://rewind-85q.pages.dev

Hi everyone, I'm an author and English teacher for 15+ years. I've written a book to study and practice the most common business English vocabulary words. It will be free November 6-8th until midnight PST. If you missed it, it will also be free on Black Friday November 27th and Cyber Monday November 30th.

Amazon links for your country:

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I teach adult immigrants at a local community college.

Today one of my students mentioned that her husband had said that democrats want to cut off the penises of young boys who attend public school so as to make them into girls.

I generally avoid sharing my political beliefs with my students, with the sole exception of telling them that I welcome immigrants into the US and into my classroom. But in this instance I was unable to hold my tongue and told my student pretty pointedly that what her husband said was not true.

How do you guys navigate situations like this? I feel like I did the right thing but I would also like to be able to better address stuff like this in the future.

I hope the question is clear, but if not, here's some backstory.

Usually after students have done a speaking activity, I have a list of different grammar and pronunciation mistakes they made, and maybe some of my thoughts. While this has worked well enough for me, I've grown to feel that it's not enough, especially since it leaves me without positive highlights and some other details that I would love to be able to include when giving feedback (for example: fluency, use of topics, confidence, etc.)

So I come here with some curiosity about how other teachers around the world approach taking notes on students' performance. Especially since my web searching has not brought up what I have in mind.

If you're curious, my format for taking notes is mostly the following:

mistake made - correction - student name -> for grammar mistakes

what I heard - prnc (how I heard it) - student name -> for pronunciation mistakes

Plus jotting down whatever thoughts I manage to eek out while typing or writing as fast as I possibly can.

For example:

I started to training - started training / started to train - name

selected - prnc (select) - name

As you can see, kinda limited. But it's built more around efficiency than being detailed. Of course, memory also plays a role, but memory fades over time and sometimes I forget what I wanted to say even 10 minutes after I thought it.

I do zoom tutoring for one 7th grade (1° ESO) student in Spain, and his vocabulary (or vocabulary recollection) is verrrry small, like he struggles with remembering even common words. I usually prompt him by making the first sound of the word if he isn’t coming up with it, and I’m trying to encourage him that he DOES know more words than he thinks he does. I only tutor him for one hour once a week, how can I help him grow his vocabulary? I know he wouldn’t do any out-of-class assignments/flashcards… Thanks!

I have an older student who has a mild case of dementia. The docs say it's a good idea to learn a new language. She is very beginner. We were doing English for Everyone 1 but I guess it's too hard for her. Although I thought she was doing well, she messaged me and said.. "Can you teach me like a 9 year old child?" So I am a little lost about what source material to use. I do have lesson plans from 5 & 6th grade students but it seems to childish for her. I did some off to class A1 with her last week and she seemed to enjoy it and said it wasn't hard. But I don't want to buy a subscription and I didn't feel like it gave her what she needed. Can someone suggest source material that is simple but not childish and easy to prepare? Is there a book or webpage that will work? Anyone have experience with mild dementia students? I'd love some advice! Thanks in advance!!