Discover ESL listening strategies and activities that help secondary English learners improve comprehension, build confidence, and develop academic listening skills across content areas.
Authentic videos can help high school English learners practice listening, vocabulary, discussion, and real-world comprehension. Learn how to choose short videos, scaffold the language, and turn authentic media into teen-friendly ESL lessons.
Looking for summer school ESL activities for high school students that actually keep teens engaged? After teaching ESL summer school for five weeks with students earning a full year of credit, I’m sharing the speaking games, collaborative activities, listening tasks, and low-prep ideas that helped make those long summer days successful.
Looking for ESL listening activities for high school students? These strategies build comprehension, vocabulary, and confidence.
These scaffolded MLK Day activities for ESL students build background knowledge, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills for secondary English learners.
Want to create a classroom where your ESL teens feel seen, safe, and celebrated? Discover simple, impactful culturally responsive ESL teaching strategies designed specifically for high school English learners.
Want to get your teen ESL students talking? These 40 free ESL sentence starters with MP3 audio are classroom-ready and designed to boost fluency, confidence, and participation.
Cloze listening activity ESL teachers can use to build listening and comprehension skills. Learn how I use leveled audio and fill-in-the-blank passages to boost engagement and focus.
Struggling to get ESL teens to talk? These ESL speaking prompts for teens use emotion-based topics to build confidence, encourage real conversations, and make speaking practice easy.
Looking for a ready-to-use ESL listening activity? This free B1-level worksheet includes a QR code for audio, guiding questions, and a printable poem. Perfect for secondary ESL classrooms!