About This Blog
Welcome to my blog for English language teachers! My focus here is on methodology, strategies, and classroom activities. I offer ideas with the hope to facilitate a positive teaching experience for you and a successful learning outcome for your students. If even to a small degree I am able to encourage creativity, promote reflection, deepen your passion for teaching, and facilitate your students’ learning, then I will be extremely pleased.
We are fortunate to teach at this time, when online resources for our profession are plentiful, but in reality there is very little time to explore and examine them all. That said, I am genuinely appreciative every time a teacher visits my blog, and I thank you for your support of my efforts. I will do my best to offer ideas that have relevance, value, and immediate application to your teaching.
Lastly I express sincere gratitude to Pearson Longman for making this blog possible. A special thank you to John and Eric for giving their support from the start!
- Jennifer
February 13, 2009 at 2:25 am
Hi Jennifer,
I just found your site the other day while searching for ESl information. I am a part-time ESL teacher at a community center. I work in a different field during the day. I am in the middle of a career change and I am taking university classes to become certified to teach both English and ESL. Your site is awesome and has great information! I am already putting to use some of the classroom tips. Thank you for your willingness to share your knowledge!
February 13, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Welcome to the field! (Although it sounds like you’re not exactly a novice teacher.) I was very happy to read your comment. I hope you’ll continue to visit my blog. There are so many different teaching experiences one can have in the field of ESL, from a community center to YouTube. Feel free to share your own perspective whenever you’d like. Best of luck to you!
May 15, 2012 at 4:37 pm
jennifer i want you to make a video on parallism.there are certainly a lot of students wanting to learn parallel construction.please do it
May 16, 2012 at 11:06 pm
I will likely address that topic in my series “Improve Your Writing.”
http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/improve_your_writing.php
Thank you.
February 23, 2013 at 10:06 am
how i improve my listening when i am watching tv and how i improve my conversation when i am talking with foreign people sometimes i don’t know what they means. may i know you facebook.
February 17, 2009 at 7:43 am
Your are Great. And so is your site! Awesome content. Good job guys! Interesting article, adding it to my favourites!
August 4, 2009 at 6:32 am
hi mss jennifer dear u re good teacher and thanks for your help i abrecaite with u
November 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Jennifer, spasibo Vam ogromnoe za Vashi uroki. Vi ochenj horoshaya uchitelniza!
November 25, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Hi,miss jenifer,you have done agreat job for the comming generations .I really appreciate what you are doing in teaching grammer and pronunciation.
December 1, 2009 at 11:04 am
Recently I have got job in very good company. They all are speak very good english. I saw your website, it is very interesting and you are doing a very good job and help others in their future. Thank you so such, now I have to learn so many things from website. thanks & best regards, Nasreen.
December 20, 2009 at 1:04 am
Hi Jennifer,
I just found your blog. I do appreciate your outstanding commitment to ESL teacher development. Besides, I strongly agree with you being fortunate to teach at this aewsome time, with a great deal of online resources, like yours, for our profession improvement. Surfing the net is time consuming; however,for all one is worth.
Hope to learn and share each other for long.
Warm regards from Lima, Peru
Victor Hugo Rojas
December 26, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Hi Jennifer
I am studing English with you by video on Youtube.com. Its very interesting sound, methode and simple clearly. I am not a theacher, but a student and I will take a course on BU, to take a school of education. You are a great theacher. I come here to say Thank you very much.
January 12, 2010 at 8:46 am
Dear Jennifer:
I am very excited to find your blog here. I can not use Youtube website anymore because in my country I can not open it. I have not seen your video for a long time. Could you do me a favor? How can I see your video again? Could you tell me the other website? I am looking forward to see that. Thank you so much!
Best Regard
Cathy
January 12, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Hi Cathy!
A few months ago I began to post on Vimeo. My channel there is also JenniferESL. It would be best to go to EnglishCafe.com and look for my blog postings and lessons there (again under the name JenniferESL). I embed my videos from Vimeo and add a summary as well as an additional exercise.
I hope you soon be able to start following my work again.
Best wishes to you!
February 10, 2010 at 1:00 am
Hello Jennifer,
I have just discovered your english lessons. I´m from Spain. Now I am in Washington DC in an internship program until october. I´m studing english whith your videos every days. So thank you so much!
February 10, 2010 at 3:16 pm
I’m glad the videos are helping you. Stay warm and safe down there in snowy D.C. Best wishes!
February 11, 2010 at 6:34 am
Jennifer,
Thank you for your wonderful work!
My mom found your videos while looking for ESL materials to learn English. She adores you
and loves learning from you!
I am a former ESL student who teaches ESL at MiraCosta College now.
Thanks again,
Eli
February 12, 2010 at 2:03 am
Dear Eli,
What a wonderful flow of events! You must have had inspiring teachers that influenced your decision to join the teaching profession. And now your mother is a student of English. I’m greatly pleased that both you and your mom like my work.
Regards,
Jennifer
March 25, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Just came back from your workshop here in Boston (TESOL) Thanks again, Jennifer!!!
March 26, 2010 at 1:03 pm
You’re most welcome, Eli. Thank you for joining the discussion group.
April 26, 2010 at 5:17 am
Your lesson on you-tube are really awesome.
July 7, 2010 at 3:49 am
Hi Jennifer,
Have you been watching the World Cup? If you have, I’m certain that you’ve noticed that the announcers refer to the team names in the “plural.” For example, “Germany have a good team”; “Argentina are making a lot of bad mistakes today.”
Does this make sense to you?
July 7, 2010 at 4:49 pm
I confess that I’m not following the World Cup. My husband gives me updates, though.
I’m used to hearing and saying a singular verb after a country’s name. “The U.S. has a decent team.” Also, “team” is a collective noun and in American English we generally treat collective nouns as singular: “Our team is winning!”
Have you seen my post on collective nouns?
July 13, 2010 at 9:07 am
Hello Jennifer! I’ve been sending students to watch your YouTube videos for months, but just found your blog. So glad I did. Looks like a bunch of great stuff. Thanks
Jeremy
blog.stuartmillenglish.com
July 14, 2010 at 1:17 am
The latest analogy I came up with is popcorn. ESL/ EFL blogs are popping up everywhere. It’s a bit overwhelming, much like a super-sized bag of buttery popcorn that you get in a movie theater. You wonder if you can digest it all, but it smells so good that you want to try to eat it all up. Each blog has quite an archive of postings. My own archive may overwhelm new visitors. Please don’t give yourself a tummy ache trying to digest it all. Do a search in a category that strikes your fancy. I’m happy if you find even just a few postings that you like and can put to use.
Thank you for sharing my videos with your students. I appreciate the support and the chance to reach more learners. Please tell them about my website, too. I publish material there as well. Best wishes to you and your students, Jeremy.
March 7, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I teach ESL for Adult Education and I’m at a site that doesn’t have a copy machine. I want to present material using my LCD Projector. What software package are you using for your lessons? Do you just use PowerPoint with a voice over plus the ability to insert video? Thanks and you are doing a fantastic job!
Kate
March 9, 2011 at 9:45 am
Hello Kate,
Are you asking about live lessons or my YouTube videos?
1. Videos = Camtasia studio
2. Live teaching = I work online only. I’ve been using Skype (file sharing, screen sharing, text). I’ve experimented a little with DimDim.
Please let me know if I didn’t answer your question.
Regards,
Jennifer
March 13, 2011 at 12:59 am
Hi Jennifer,
Your YouTube videos are great!!! I find them really interesting and, above all, clear, easy to follow and nicely warm!!!
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.
Regards from Pto. Madryn, Argentina.
Paula
March 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Thank you for the positive feedback, Paula!
Best wishes,
Jennifer
October 26, 2011 at 11:26 am
hi jenifer i just found your website. it’s very very interesting, and you are a very great teacher. i hope you are fine.
May 16, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I’ve just jound your Website and I love it!!!. I really like the way you teach and I am very excited to study with you with your you tube videos.
I have a question, I found that English Café is closed, Where Can I find your lessons?
Thanks a million!
May 16, 2012 at 11:08 pm
Unfortunately, EC materials are now unavailable. I have begun to replace some of those materials on my website. Little by little, I’ll continue to create additional exercises and forms of practice to support English language studies. Please consider joining my forum, too.
http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/forum/
December 30, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Hi Jennifer,
I came across your blog through the use of your Youtube videos. I’ve been teaching ESL for nearly 19 years, the last 15 of those in Adult Education. I love writing my own materials for my students and supplementing with your videos. I’ll often use one of your videos as a lead to a mini-lesson I’ll do with my multi-level class before breaking into smaller groups. I so appreciate the links to handouts you’ve posted within your blog. They are excellent! I’ve recommended your blog to my ESL colleagues. One day, I’d like to create a website so that I can post my self-created materials as well. For now, I maintain a simple blog for my students and staff. Blessings!
December 31, 2012 at 11:02 am
Hello Denise,
Thank you for choosing to make my videos and materials a part of your classroom instruction from time to time. I’m glad I can support your teaching just by saving you some time! I really think there’s a materials writer in every teacher. For many, the challenge is finding the time to flesh out all the ideas.
Our careers take different turns, and around one bend I’m sure you’ll find the opportunity to get your website up and post materials you’ve created. Happy teaching to you!
Best wishes for 2013!
Kind regards,
Jennifer
January 6, 2013 at 5:00 pm
tu eres bonita y tienes carisma
January 7, 2013 at 9:02 am
Thank you for your kind words.
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