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Single-Sex Schools Are Good for Education

Single-sex schools are schools that only admit those of one specific gender, believing that the educational environment created by a single gender is more...

How to use Free Debate Lesson Plans from ESLDebates

This plan is for Free Debate Lesson Plans which can be found here. The ESLDebates team we would like to thank you for downloading our...

Nine Ways to Employ Higher-Order Thinking in the ESL/TEFL Classroom

As teachers, we want to draw out talent from our students while making them prepared for the world of work in the future. What...

Internet Censorship: For Your own Good?

Warmer questions Do you believe that newspapers and national media reveal all that they know? Do governments have...

How People React to Gay Adoptions

Warmer questions What are the laws in your country regarding gay marriage? Does your country have an active...

Should Plastic Bags be Outlawed?

Warmer questions How often do you see plastic in your everyday life? What measure does are there to...

60 Controversial Discussion Topics with Teaching Ideas

Fostering discussion in the classroom is an age-old question for every teacher. For TEFL/ESL teachers the key is to bring real-world concerns into the...

Quick Fire Debate Cards

Running out of time to prepare the next class? Relax and simply follow the procedure for this quick and easy debate class. Procedure Print this...

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