Here you go:

 

1. I run an ESL program for a private manufacturing company in Germany.   All of my students are adult volunteers.  My groups (max size 10) range from true beginners to others that daily use English for business correspondence and communications.  I have each group for 75 minutes a week.  Some prefer a conversational format, others prefer a more structured format.  Dependent on their specific needs, I use a bit of both.

 

2. Currently, "useful" worksheets for me are ones that I can use as homework or do together in class.  I find my beginning and intermediate students like grammar worksheets that summarize the grammar rules and have examples at the beginning (it helps them to remember what was taught after returning home). 

 

For my advanced students, "useful" usually means comprehension and listening exercises with a good series of qustions and conversation points afterward.  I usually extend these worksheets to include internet research questions (to help them learn to "scan" in English). 

 

Generally, worksheets focused on specific grammar or vocabulary with lots of opportunity for repetition are prefered.  Puzzles and games aren ´t usually too useful for me.

 

3.  "Attractive" for me means some clipart, but not too much (preferably not too small-child oriented).  Important is that it looks good (and is legible) in black and white as well as in color (b&w is cheaper to print/copy). Many fancy print fonts look nice on the computer screen but are almost illegible on paper.

 

Douglas

 

 

2. I use video almost exculively in class.  So useful worksheets are ones related to this, hence most of my uploads are of that nature.  I also find some grammar worksheets useful.  I teach any point that comes up in the video, and give a worksheet from here as homework.  In that I agree with douglas about the brief explanation and examples then questions.

3. I use my laptop in class, so I don ´t actually print, so colour, colour and more colour for me.  Interesting and provocative images are also good.

 

2. A useful worksheet usually includes both a good clear explanation of a grammar point and interesting engaging exercises. Also creative activities, interesting reading comp., etc.

In my particular case, I don ´t find children-oriented ws useful, I have mostly teenagers and mostly boys, so it ´s quite hard to keep them entertained while teaching them!

 

3. For my classes the ´atractiveness ´ of the WS plays a big role. I ´m a firm believer that everyone learns in a different way (auditory, visually, kinesthetic, and so on) and therefore I like to cater to every student ´s need by having a visually engaging ws as well as phisical activities and oral explanation/conversation included in the class. However a good visually engaging ws would, in my opinion, include images that complement the topic and that are interesting, not merely random borders...

 

Hope it helps!!! :o)

 

Sol