Golden Collection – JOKES

Teachers often use jokes in the ESL/EFL classroom to teach culture, grammar and vocabulary.
If you know a joke that works well with ESL/EFL students, please read and choose some appropriate ones for your provision.

Preparing an academic paper can be difficult, especially if English is your second language. For one thing, rules for content, formatting, documenting, and communicating ideas differ throughout the world. However, several universities have recently conducted studies of ESL/EFL writers. They report that by the time these students are writing English on a day-to-day basis, they have attained:
- Greater richness of expression
- Tolerance for divergent views
- Varied life experiences to call upon
- Ability to accept criticism
- Openness to new ideas

Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking (Esl & Applied Linguistics Professional)

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands - meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development - teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students."Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing", and its companion text, "Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking", are similar in format and the kinds of topics covered, but do not need to be used together. Drawing on research and theory in applied linguistics, their focus is strongly hands-on, featuring easily applied principles, a large number of useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring. All certificate, diploma, masters and doctoral courses for teachers of English as a second or foreign language include a teaching methods component. The texts are designed for and have been field tested in such programs.

Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing (Esl & Applied Linguistics Professional)

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands - meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development - teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students.