Forum: Teaching ESL 
Jan 9th, 2008, 10:12 am
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Views: 21,686  Re: Ideas for conversation classes
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Write questions on slips of paper and hand them out at the beginning. Have each student discuss their question with other students.
I used this with classes of adults from...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 9th, 2008, 10:05 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,159 Re: How to teach without wild games or activites?
I use a lot of picture worksheets and have the young students right smiley faces (the partner likes it) or frowning faces (the partner doesn't like it), write names of partners who like/have the...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 16th, 2007, 10:09 am
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Views: 37,442 Re: Reported Speech Activity
I taught this in small groups of adults, however I think it could work with JHS as well. I would have one student tell another to do something. For example, "open the door." A third student must...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 3rd, 2007, 01:51 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 5th, 2007, 08:49 am
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Views: 11,980 Re: What games are suitable for adults?
I have used most of the games that I play with children with adults. It depends very much on the group of adults.
1. I have played run to the board to choose one of two word games.
2. I have...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 13th, 2007, 08:49 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 41,880 Re: Need Help!! Phrasal Verb Games!!
This game practices which preposition goes with which verb. Split the class into two teams. Write a list of verbs (without the prepositions) on the board, two times in two different orders. Each...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 5th, 2007, 09:33 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 5th, 2007, 09:21 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 2nd, 2007, 09:32 am
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Replies: 26
Views: 9,782 Re: How long do you expect to stay in TESL?
I am also currently planning my escape.
I've been in ESL for 5 years. I absolutely loved teaching English to adult immigrants in the U.S. However (at least in the D.C. area) it doesn't pay well...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 2nd, 2007, 09:21 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 25,165 Re: competitive games for 2 or 3 people
Thanks for the ideas. I use more activities where the students are working together rather than competing. I don't particularly like too much competition. However, there is a very strong heirarchy...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 29th, 2007, 08:47 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 25,165 competitive games for 2 or 3 people
I have an elective class of 3rd year junior high students (14 years old). There are 5 boys and 2 girls. The boys are very competitive, talkative (in Japanese) and try to take shortcuts on every...
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Forum: General Chat
May 11th, 2007, 02:01 pm
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Replies: 8
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Forum: General Chat
May 11th, 2007, 01:59 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,937 Re: Where is the best country your have taught?
I have taught in Japan, in Washington D.C. to immigrants at a private English school and am now teaching Japanese and Mexican students in Mexico.
My favorite has been teaching in DC, mostly adults...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 11th, 2007, 10:19 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 47,625 Re: relative clauses
I have done with with small groups of adults to introduce and practice relative clauses. Hand something (anything) to one student and say something like, "please give this to the woman (man, girl,...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 11th, 2007, 09:58 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 70,621 Re: Kings – A grammar game!
Because I don't know where else to put this suggestion...
"Never have I ever" can be adapted to practice present perfect in the classroom. It is a drinking game in which on person says (truthfully),...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 11th, 2007, 09:30 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 88,429 Re: Phonics games?
Also, a Japanese game called shiritori is good for beginning and ending sounds and vocabulary building. One person starts by saying a word (the teacher). The next person must stay a word that...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 11th, 2007, 09:19 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 88,429 Re: Phonics games?
Choose two or three sounds that are difficult for your students to distinguish. For example, I teach Japanese and Mexican students. All have trouble with th, s, and z. I put flashcards of the...
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Forum: Ask & Answer Questions Worksheets
Jan 25th, 2007, 12:48 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 1,910 rhyme
Click Here To See This Worksheet. (http://www.eslhq.com/worksheets/preview_worksheet.php?worksheet_id=41722)
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jan 12th, 2007, 03:47 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 41,733 Re: Animal Adjectives
Another personality quiz that I used in a class of mixed intermediate and advanced junior high school students. I also had the students make up their own personality quiz questions after they took...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 9th, 2007, 04:09 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 4,020 Re: 60, 90, or 120
At the school where I teach, the Spanish teachers teach 20 minute classes. It is new thing this year, but they have adjusted very well (I assist in some Spanish classes). Mostly, they have time to...
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Forum: Matching Worksheets
Dec 11th, 2006, 03:43 pm
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Views: 9,873 animal similes
Click Here To See This Worksheet. (http://www.eslhq.com/worksheets/preview_worksheet.php?worksheet_id=37954)
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 29th, 2006, 05:49 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 7,350 Re: One-to ones - HELP
I am teaching a "one to one business English class now."
To practice grammer: I give him a verb and a time, he must make a sentence. For example, I say "write" and "5 times yesterday," and he...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 29th, 2006, 05:34 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 4,174 Re: Memorable Students
I was teaching an adult class in the U.S. I had an aweful, young, troublemaking, sexist, racist guy in my class. I don't know what he was doing there, but he was there. He made sexist comments...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 29th, 2006, 04:14 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 30,772 |
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 29th, 2006, 04:12 pm
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Replies: 22
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