It’s Celebrate Your Name Week 2017, and it’s a great time to try our Simple Present – Be lesson with your young learners. In this lesson, students will learn the names, ages, and nationalities of our cute characters while learning how to introduce themselves using the simple present. (more…)

We are excited to present our NEW lower-level, simple present lesson on the verb “to be”! We’ve come up with a brand new template for this lesson, and we’d love your feedback! Please let us know what you think (what was useful, what was missing, etc.) in the Comments section below or through the Contact page on our website.

Introducing yourself in English is one of the first things students should learn. Our Simple Present – Be lesson in the Basic Grammar Structures section of the Grammar School gives students plenty of chances to practice this! (more…)

If you tried our Lesson of the Week about nations and nationalities, then a great follow-up would be to share these articles about different countries with your students.

Have your students look at “The Friendliest Countries in the World 2013” by Steven Sanders on Hubpages’s website. They’ll have fun checking to see if their countries are represented. Ask your young learners if they agree with the author’s choices. Which other countries do they think are friendly? How about their native countries (if you have a multi-national class)? How about other places they’ve visited? Have they been to any of the countries on the list? (more…)