Forum: ESL Games and Activities 
Dec 21st, 2011, 09:28 am
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Views: 11,928  Re: 3 year olds!
A game little ones love is when you scatter target vocabulary flashcards on the floor and they have to find the one you ask for. In your case I'd make sure there were 8 sets of cards for the 8...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 21st, 2011, 09:19 am
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Views: 2,529 Re: kids' spelling
I like to play bingo to practise spellings. The children love it and don't even realise it's spelling practise. They write down three of the words we are learning and mark them off as I turn over...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 21st, 2011, 09:12 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,104 Re: How much to teach a 3 year old
Hi arielhud,
That would be wonderful, thank you. I know there will be a lot of differences between teaching a class and and individual toddler, but I'm sure it would be really useful to see. Many...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 30th, 2011, 08:04 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,104 Re: How much to teach a 3 year old
Thanks for the replies.
I think I'll stay with vocabulary for now then and try finding new games to reinforce what we've done already. I'll try 'I like...' in a couple of weeks and see how he gets...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 22nd, 2011, 06:48 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 22nd, 2011, 06:46 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 6,104 How much to teach a 3 year old
I've been teaching a 3 year old for 10 weeks. We do an hour and a half each week. I don't have previous experience with such a young learner and was wondering if those of you who've taught pre-school...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 2nd, 2011, 05:55 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 4,713 Re: Forcing young students into talking
I agree with you completely that is is terrible to rush children into speaking the language. I have a couple of strategies to help try to make the new less language less scary for the students and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 16th, 2011, 09:50 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,807 Re: 8 year old who can't understand sentences...
Just thought I'd update this thread to thank both of you who offered advice!
I tried used word tiles with my student yesterday and had a break-through. She loved using them and by the end of the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 4th, 2011, 03:21 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,807 Re: 8 year old who can't understand sentences...
I'm really interested in this advice coming from both of you. I admit I have wondered about doing this but decided against it since there are so many phonetically irregular sounds in English.
I'd be...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2011, 05:34 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2011, 05:15 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,807 Re: 8 year old who can't understand sentences...
Thanks Tinyteach, I think I'll take up your sentence tile suggestion. Another teacher recommended this to me too. I've done this as a written activity, but haven't tried physical tiles to move...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2011, 05:11 pm
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 2nd, 2011, 02:35 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 2nd, 2011, 02:29 pm
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Views: 6,807  8 year old who can't understand sentences...
I give private lessons to an eight year old girl to reinforce what is covered in her English lessons at school. I use her school text book as a guide and develop activities from that.
The school...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 24th, 2011, 05:14 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:42 am
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Views: 8,400 Re: Conversational activities for adults
You could play Categories where either you or a student names a category (e.g. colours, sports) and they have to think of all as many words as possible. You could go round the class one by one to...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:38 am
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Views: 4,145 Re: woman's day lesson for teens
Does it have to be about the origins of women's day?
If not and they are an advanced class, you could do a lesson on equality and look at some examples of situations where women don't have equal...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:27 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,739 Re: english lessons
If you want to use flash cards you can play Snap, Memory and Go Fish, but you do need more than one set of flash cards for these.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:24 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 24,054 Re: An Ice Breaker Every Day?
I have 2 really simple warm-up activities that work well with older students and get a lot of laughs.
- Reciting the letters of the alphabet one after each other... if they get to Z they have to...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:17 am
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Views: 3,619  Freelance teacher's bag!
I teach private classes of just 1 or 2 students and now I'm starting to take on more students. Up until now I have kept a lot of information in my head in terms of lesson topics, assessment, areas in...
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Forum: ESL Forms
Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:14 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 22nd, 2011, 09:21 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 22nd, 2011, 09:14 am
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Views: 6,222 First lesson & level testing for adults!
I have experience teaching private lessons to children and teenagers and love teaching this younger age group, but in order to find more students I'm starting to branch out to teaching adults too. I...
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