ESLwithMichelle

Certified TEFL/TJFL - B.A.

Asian Studies/Japanese Area Studies
Tutoring adults and children ESL around the world
Teaching platforms: Outschool, Cambly, Cambly Kids, and independently
Follow me on Instagram @ESLwithMichelle Teaching:
ESL / ESL Conversation
IJL - Intro to Japanese language
Storytime for Children
EZ Baking/Cooking
Resin Crafting & Jewelry Making
EZ DIY Crafting

Outschool & Cambly

05/09/2025

Prestidigitation: the art or skill of performing magic tricks and illusions for entertainment. 🎩 🪄 🔮
One of my favorite long words to day!

These are the 2 biggest benefits of PAUSING when you speak!

When you pause, you give people time to think about what you said. If you don't stop talking, there's no time to process your words, and therefore misunderstandings happen.

And when you become comfortable with the pause, you remove your UMMs & AHHs which take so much away from the clarity of your speech.

Don't underestimate the power of pausing!

10/02/2024

Take a pause!

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These are the 2 biggest benefits of PAUSING when you speak! When you pause, you give people time to think about what you said. If you don't stop talking, there's no time to process your words, and therefore misunderstandings happen. And when you become comfortable with the pause, you remove your UMMs & AHHs which take so much away from the clarity of your speech. Don't underestimate the power of pausing!

10/09/2023

07/19/2023

Here it is folks. The beginning of the end for tutors on Cambly. A new chat with AI feature that promises instant feedback in LIVE interactions. Reading some reddit threads and comments on fb groups...people are not happy.

01/28/2023

Prude - almost a snob
Too proper
Polite to an extreme
Too good for anyone else

01/17/2023

Scope in a sentence.
So many English words have multiple meanings depending on what you're talking about. No wonder it gets complicated!

12/14/2022

Chibi me!
Made an easy chibi avatar of me. 😋

It was originally meant as an insult. Over time it became the popular term that is used for small characters with big exprespressions and features.
Japanese chibi kyara (ちびキャラ, 'tiny character'), where chibi (ちび) is a colloquial word for very short people and children.