ESL Top 5 Tips on Doing 8- 10 minutes English Oral Presentation

1. Master your topic, it is always much better for you to choose the topis that is very familiar  to you.

2. Rehearse as practice makes perfect and they can build up your confidence too.

3. Time yourself during practice, you'll know when you've crossed or exceeded the time limit. Timing is almost everything.

4. Communicate with your audience to ensure that they are joining you 'in the class' and try to get their response by asking related questions especially pop questions from your previous part of explanation.

5. Be clear and precise, the point is not to get an entertaining show, but to make sure your audience get what you mean throughout the presentation and to get good marks from your lecturer of course.

ESL Top 5 Learning Motivation Tips

Motivation is one important factor that goes around our life in everything and anything that we do almost every day. Well, ESL Learning is not an exception when we talk about motivation or stimulus factor. I have figured out some motivational acts that I can practice in my ESL classes in order to motivate ESL learners to learn and stay interested. Below are 5 of them.

1. Instead of stating the students are wrong for example in writing or sentences construction, tell them nicely on how they can change or repair the sentences appropriately without leaving the original meaning.

2. Praise the students once they have successfully completed a task. Give them the credits especially when they are trying their best in ESL activities for example in oral activities. Praising technique is the simplest way that an ESL teacher can do to boost students’ morale and it works all the time.

3. Check their works from time to time and give proper comments. Basically people will appreciate attention and so do ESL learners in our classes. This way can somehow motivate ESL learners to participate more seriously in the future and gain something useful for themselves.

4. Allow students to make comments or suggestions for a change. Take those comments or suggestions that are acceptable and brilliant. Please don’t straightly deny comments that you think as inappropriate, just tell the students that you’ll think of the comments and will get back to them later on. Make sure you as teacher has a written record. Once students believe that you as teachers can accept their way of thinking, it will somehow can motivate them to learn and continuously participate in your next class.

5. Last but not least ESL teachers can publish students’ work in their ‘ESL and More’ website and inform the students that their work are being published and can be read all over the world. Personally for me if my ESL teacher told me that my work is being published, I will feel very proud and this can encourage me to love the target language more than before.

ESL Top 10 Enquiries about Jobs via Phone Calls

Making brilliant enquiries is one of the skills that students need to master in order to get a job in the future once they are done with their college /education. Listed below are Top 10 Enquiries about Jobs that student can ask their future employer in order to be well- informed and be prepared for future jobs undertakings.

1. What are the working hours like?

2. Are there any chances of working for extra hours (over time) to gain extra money?

3. How long will it take for my application to be processed?

4. Can you please tell me some details for the job that I applied?

5. How many employees that work in your company?

6. Is it being a computer literate an advantage?

7. What benefit that I can get if I were accepted to be your employee?

8. Do you require any working experience?

9. What are the services provided by your company?

10. How many vacancies available for this position alone?

Top 5 Ways How English Songs Can Improve ESL Learners Language Competency.

1. Sometimes ESL learners may repeat the lyrics of the songs that they love to listen to in their daily conversation or during ESL activities.

2. Sometimes ESL learners may use the lyrics in their ESL writing activities as they know they are not going to commit any grammatical mistakes.

3. The more they listen to English songs, the more they will love the target language and eventually they will use the language more that they realize it.

4. A nice and famous latest English song can encourage ESL learners to memorize the beautiful lyrics and this somehow can improve their ESL competency.

5. Singing together is actually learning together in a very fun way.

Top 5 Ways How Reading can Help ESL Students to Improve Their Target Language.

1. Reading materials are written by those experts in the writing area. ESL student can adapt the same writing style by the professional in their essay in ESL classrooms for example on how to start a good introduction and how to organize important contents.
2. A good reading material is always perfected with smooth flow of sentences and grammar. This way student can learn about the rules of grammar itself while reading and may utilize the correct usage in ESL activities for example Speaking and Writing especially.
3. ESL students may use some of the examples or interesting facts stated or repeated in reading materials for their ESL activities. A very resourceful reading material such as English newspaper may come handy at time.
4. Besides that, ESL students can also utilize related interesting pictures shown in most reading materials in helping them in ESL presentations. Most people (including myself) love to see pictures and after all pictures do tell a thousand words.
5. Other than helping themselves, ESL students can also help other ESL learners by referring them to the useful reading materials that they have read. Sharing is caring.

5 Things You Probably Don't Know About Your Phone

There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies. Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:

FIRST: Emergency

The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of the coverage area of your mobile; network and there is an emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly this number 112 can be dialled even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.

SECOND: Have you locked your keys in the car?

Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their mobile phone from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who has the other 'remote' for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the trunk). Editor's Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car over a mobile phone!'

THIRD: Hidden Battery Power

Imagine your mobile battery is very low. To activate, press the keys *3370# Your mobile will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when you charge your mobile next time.

FOURTH: How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 # A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere safe. When your phone got stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.

FIFTH: ATM - PIN Number Reversal

Good to KnowIf you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your PIN # in reverse. For example, if your pin number is 1234, then you would put in 4321. The ATM system recognizes that your PIN number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine. The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to the location. This information was recently broadcast on CTV by Crime Stoppers however it is seldom used because people just don't know about it.

Top 5 Cancer Causing Foods

1. Hot dogs
Because they are high in nitrates .the Cancer Prevention Coalition advises that children eat no more than 12 hot dogs a month. If you can't live without hot dogs, buy those made without sodium nitrate.

2. Processed meats and bacon

Also high in the same sodium nitrates found in hot dogs, bacon, and other processed meats raise the risk of heart disease. The saturated fat in bacon also contributes to cancer.

3. Doughnuts

Doughnuts are cancer-causing double trouble. First, they are made with white flour, sugar, and hydrogenated oils, then fried at high temperatures. Doughnuts, says Adams , may be the worst food you can possibly eat to raise your risk of cancer.

4. French fries

Like doughnuts, French fries are made with hydrogenated oils and then fried at high temperatures. They also contain cancer- causing acryl amides which occur during the frying process.They should be called cancer fries, not French fries, said Adams .

5. Chips, crackers, and cookies

All are usually made with white flour and sugar. Even the ones whose labels claim to be free of trans-fats generally contain small amounts of trans-fats.

5 Major Problems in Teaching Speaking to ESL Students.

1. Problems to get the pronunciation right.
2. Problems in getting the students to try to speak. Most of second language speakers have low self-esteem.
3. Students are afraid of making or creating mistakes especially in pronunciation. (afraid of being laughed by others)
4. Problems in searching the right topics for students according to their level of competency.
5. Problems in determining the allocation of time in doing students' speaking session.

5 Major Problems in ESL Classrooms Caused by the Students.

1. Lack of interest towards the target language. This could be the most crucial problems of second language speakers/ learners because their mind are being blocked at the beginning of the lesson.
2. Lack of communication with language teachers/ instructors.
3. Not willing to try/ feeling ashamed of teachers and friends. At time, students are being too self- centered.
4. Lack of focus in the classroom.
5. Being in the classroom without any goal especially the goal to succeed in ESL learning.

5 Major Problems in ESL Classrooms Caused by Teachers.

1. Being impatient to get result. Teachers may accidentally teach their students too fast without them realizing it.
2. Teaching students not according to their pace/ level of learning/ understanding. Students should be categorized from weak/ beginner to intermediate to upper- intermediate and lastly the advanced students.
3. Not being clear and concise with instructions that will caused misunderstanding by students.
4. Not giving proper examples that can help students with their understanding in the target language especially when students cannot come with their own examples.
5. The teaching and learning process is more to 'Teachers Centered' and not 'Students Centered', meaning the teaching and learning seems to be more on teachers or being in controlled by teachers all the time and not focusing on the students for example teachers talk at most of the time and not giving their students the chance to express what they have in mind.