![]() Start with a question for your students: In what situations do you use English outside the classroom? Then ask them to choose two or three words covered in the lesson which they think will be of use to them. They will help your students make English their own. 1 So instead of giving your students pages of exercises and getting irritated because they don’t do them, use some of the ESL homework ideas below. You can tell your students how to use grammar, or explain what words mean, but it’s up to them to actually ‘make language own, … assert through it’, as the linguist Henry Widdowson puts it. Why? Because the role of an English teacher is not only to teach English, but also to teach how to learn English, to equip students with the necessary tools to become independent English users. But there are ways to make students like homework again. Are your students reluctant to do homework? Do they think that doing it is time-consuming and not worth the effort? If that is the case, it’s not because the idea of homework itself is boring or useless, but because students often spend too much time doing meaningless activities and at some point realize that they prefer to manage their free time differently.
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