ARSENIO’S ESL PODCAST | SEASON 5 EPISODE 154 | SPEAKING SKILL | PREPARING & ASKING QUESTIONS

When preparing questions for a Q&A session, consider asking questions from different angles. Find out details Who.....? What......? Where....? When...? How...? Elicit Justifications Why do you think.....?Why should.....? Ask for illustration of points made Can you give an example of that?What evidence is there for.....? Explore time frames What do you see happening next year?What...

ARSENIO’S ESL PODCAST | SEASON 5 EPISODE 136 | Speaking Skill | Using Visual Data

For an effective presentation, display your data in visual form while presenting it to the audience. However, you need to go further than only displaying the information. In this podcast, I will break down ways you can do that, provide bullet points, and an exercise. use large text (at least 28 font) and a clear...

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Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Developing your Speaking with Katarina Gleisberg

She's back -- yet again! Here are some tips, guidelines and things you can use IMMEDIATELY to start immersing yourself into the English language. Some of this will scare you, but it is necessary to become the effective speaker you want to become. Tips 1) Speak in Daily InteractionsPut yourself out there in natural speaking...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 41 – Developing Speaking – Presentations

Presentations are here and let's do a little bit of speaking. What do you think these ideas mean? "When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried, and distracted thinking, and superficial learning.""We are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.""The...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Q & A # 1 – Overcoming The Fear of Speaking English

Woohoo! I'm kicking off a new edition of Q & A's! That's right, for those of you that ask questions about specific things, I'll be featuring them on a podcast one a weekly basis (might be Wednesday) and answer your questions as fully as possible. Here's our first question! Teacher, I would like you to...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 19 – Speaking Task – Your “Aha” Moment

How many "aha" moments have you had? I've had a plenty, and they're always life-transforming and changes the trajectory of where I'm going in my life. Listen to my stories in the podcast down below then do the task in free-writing form! Brainstorm Read the paragraph and the question below. Our identity develops through the...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 18 – Speaking Skill – Expressing Interest in Ideas you Hear

Ahhh! This is one of my FAVORITES! This is critical in the world of conversation and just listening to people. Because we're in such a hurry everyday, we really don't use close listening techniques. When that happens, people end up saying, "you're a very bad listener." Don't be on the receiving end of that message...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 3 – Episode 59 – Vocabulary Skill – Working out Meaning from Context

Welcome back to some more vocabulary skills! Love doing this and will have loads more coming up in the next course. When you hear a new word, you can write it down to look up later, but try to get the meaning as you listen. This helps overall comprehension, and I've seen it with my...

Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Special – IELTS – Understanding Writing Task 2 Questions

Welcome back to another episode, everyone! This is going to be great for you guys to do some freewriting, but more importantly, understand the question. Learn to analyze task 2 questions.  They contain a subject and often include a general noun or nouns to help you organize your essay. The world is changing rapidly (noun). What...