| There are a great many things that you can teach or | | | | 3) Jobs and Employment - how to get one, changes |
| study when you are learning a new language. What | | | | & trends |
| you choose to study will influence how and what you | | | | 4) Environmental issues - anything from local to global |
| learn about the language you are studying. One of the | | | | issues |
| best things to do is choose a specific topic that you | | | | 5) War & Peace |
| are interested in and then follow it for a while in you | | | | 6) Culture and cultural differences |
| language learning process. | | | | 7) Government |
| If you do this, you will learn the language of that topic | | | | 8) Food and Cooking - get a cooking class going and |
| more deeply and become more comfortable using it. | | | | the whole ESL world changes! |
| This is really useful if you focus on a topic that is | | | | 9) Art - Music, movies, photography, painting/drawing, |
| important to your life, or that you find very interesting | | | | design |
| and satisfying to study. | | | | 10) Travel |
| I have been an ESL teacher for nearly 16 years, and | | | | There are of course many other popular topics, but |
| here is a list of what have become the most popular | | | | these seem to be the ones that students constantly |
| topics with my students over the years. | | | | want to go back to and learn about. As a teacher you |
| 1) Sports - especially soccer, and of course local | | | | can do well by focusing your efforts on the topics |
| sports that are new to the students | | | | (and extensions) in this simple list. Students can learn a |
| 2) Marriage & Dating - anything and everything | | | | lot by starting here and expanding out into other fields |
| about this | | | | of interest. |