Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Special – IELTS – Urban Sprawl/Part I Speaking

Welcome back, everyone! We have IELTS back on the schedule today, and I'm super excited to bring you a variety of things today. Here we go! Here are some basic Part 1 questions. Where do you live? What is it like? What do you like about the area you live in? Diving Deeper - Urban Areas...

Side Effects of Protein Deficiency

I had a student, long ago, who was more frail than ever.  She's what I would call a "white Thai," a girl who simply changes her skin tone because she thinks white is beautiful.  Not only that, she said she loves being thin because Thai men like thin, white-Thai girls. Ridiculous, right? However, this was...

TOEIC: Text Completion #2 + PDF – Continuation

Here are parts 7-12 for everyone who tuned into my last blog. Dr. Jim Croker of Budapest Lab says that people _____(7)_____  always travel with their own pillow.  “If business travelers can might will should can’t bring their laptops on board, there’s no reason why they can’t bring their own pillow,” said Dr. Croker in...

Napoleon Hill: Lesson Fourteen – Tolerance/Intolerance — The Desperation of Help Needed In Thailand

First: Intolerance is a form of ignorance which must be mastered before any form of enduring success may be attained.  It is the chief cause of all wars.  It makes enemies in business and in the professions.  It disintegrates the organized forces of society in a thousand forms and stands, like a might giant, as...

Free writing & Free Speaking Topics: Part II (For ESL Students) *Downloadable PDF*

Freewriting & Freespeaking - Part II The downloadable link above is another array of miscellaneous topics to get your mind flowing with things you've probably never thought of. I've written on the last blog that this is especially crucial for countries which don't ask these type of questions.  Lots of students around the world have...