Forum: Teaching ESL 
Mar 22nd, 2010, 06:11 am
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Views: 9,180  Re: Handling vocabulary
In a lot of coursebooks the topic will start with a matching exercise with some pictures and the relevant vocabulary. When using these, when do you model and when do you drill the vocab? Do you show...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2010, 04:12 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,180 Re: Handling vocabulary
Thanks for your replies.
I agree that incidental vocabulary is a trickier thing but I think that you can anticipate (to some extent) which words your class will not understand and prepare some...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 2nd, 2010, 02:11 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 9,180 Handling vocabulary
During my CELTA (three months ago) I learnt that new vocabulary should be tackled in a certain order - meaning, pronunciation, form. We were shown some ways of introducing new vocabulary using this...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 15th, 2010, 09:05 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,991 Re: Using students to peer-teach
Thanks for your reply Baker.
The lesson worked quite well, although I can't feeling that there is still a large difference in the knowledge of my students but I suppose this will always be the case...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 10th, 2010, 03:11 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,991 Using students to peer-teach
Hi,
I have an adults beginners class. We have had two lessons together, and we learned the alphabet and covered phonics in the last lesson. However three out of five students were not present in the...
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