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Webinar: Teaching subject and extracurricular classes to ESL students

Are you looking to go beyond the standard ESL curriculum by offering subject or extracurricular classes to your students? Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is growing in popularity within the ESL teaching community, with research suggesting it significantly boosts both language and subject learning. It is also an excellent way to engage intermediate to […]

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April 2023 Curriculum Updates

In April, Abridge Academy curriculum members gained access to 21 new lessons. Check out the details and links below… Core course The following lessons were added to the core course: Additionally, minor edits and updates were made to several other core course lessons in response to teachers’ feedback. Ultimate curriculum lessons Ultimate curriculum members also

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Newbie Webinar: April 2023

Welcome to Abridge Academy! This webinar is for all online ESL teachers who are new to the Abridge Academy curriculum. It will run you through how to find the various resources on the Abridge Academy website, as well as top tips for making the most of the lesson tools, activities and supplementary resources. This webinar covers:

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Earn more teaching online: how to choose your niche

“Niche teaching” seems to be the buzzword of the online ESL teaching world right now – but what does it mean, and how can you pick your high value niche? What is niche teaching? “Niche teaching” is, quite simply, specialising in a particular area of teaching or subject matter. This niche may be further narrowed

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FREE XiaoHongShu Marketing Bootcamp May 2023

Calling all independent online ESL teachers looking to find more, higher paying students on Chinese social media! XiaoHongShu is a must-have app for marketing in China, with over 100 million monthly active users, the majority of whom are in “tier 1” cities – where parents have the spending power to pay good money for high

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How (and why) to publish student writing

Guest post by Dustin Stevens Dustin Stevens is the father of two hilarious, keen-minded boys. He has been teaching writing for over a decade. As someone who has seen its benefits firsthand, Dustin advocates for student publishing in his writings and speaking engagements. He leads a small team of big-hearted educators at goodenglishtutors.com. The Magic of

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Phonics playgrounds for Koala Go

Want to make your online phonics lessons even more fun for kids? Check out Emily’s amazing Koala Go playgrounds to accompany the Abridge Academy phonics course – get playground 1 (lessons 1-3) and playground 2 (lessons 4-7) now or check out the details below: What is Koala Go? Koala Go is an awesome new online

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March 2023 curriculum updates

As well as enjoying some significant updates to our website design and lesson navigation system, Abridge Academy members gained access to 22 new lessons in March! Check out the details and links below… Core course The revamped core course curriculum is still rolling out, with 21 new lessons added this month, mostly to level 3:

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FREE Easter ESL lessons

Are you an online ESL teacher wanting to share some Easter traditions with your students? Check out these cute Easter themed lessons from the Abridge Academy curriculum, complete with downloadable worksheets too. Sign up to the free-forever tier to access these lessons for FREE! Lesson 1: Easter egg colors (pre-A1) This fun lesson is great

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Webinar: CamSkool video toolkit

Want to boost engagement in your classes with webcam rewards and flashcards, for FREE? Let’s welcome Idris from CamSkool, who will introduce their amazing new webcam tool for online teachers! What is CamSkool? CamSkool is a free webinar toolkit for online teachers, with some amazing features to better engage your students in class. This includes:

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