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What are Boom Cards™ ? How to Use this amazing digital platform with your students!

What are Boom Cards™ ? How to Use this amazing digital platform with your students!

Not quite sure what Boom Cards are and how to use them? I’ll be answering all the burning questions and explaining how I use Boom Cards and how you can integrate them into your classroom!  Grab a FREE set too! Whether you are teaching in-person, hybrid or distance learning, Boom Cards are so versatile that once you start using them, you’ll be hooked! But first, Why should you be using Boom Cards™? There are a few simple reasons why teachers LOVE using them.

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4 Ways To Practice Wh-Question Words

4 Ways To Practice Wh-Question Words

Wh-questions are the glue that holds language together. Without them, conversation can't progress beyond a certain point. That's why I'm always so excited when my ESL students progress from only being able to answer closed ended questions to our WH-question word unit. To me it's almost as if they've graduated and are now officially "English Speakers". They can ask and answer a wealth of questions and really get to know eachother. Here's a few games and acitivities that I've created and remain my go-to teaching essentials when working with open-ended questions.

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Boom Cards - The Easiest Way to Monitor Progress While Distance Learning

Boom Cards - The Easiest Way to Monitor Progress While Distance Learning

BOOM CARDS™ are just about the best thing that could happen to an ESL teacher. They are self-checking digital task cards that you can assign through the boom learning website. My collection of digital task cards includes the following resources: Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple Regular and Irregular Verbs, Prepositions of Place, Seasonal Vocabulary, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives, Plural Nouns and more!

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