Forum: Teaching ESL 
Sep 9th, 2010, 01:24 am
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Views: 3,792  Motivating Students to Complete Homework
I am working/researching on motivating ESL/EFL students to undertake homework when it is assigned. I have my own ideas and will be sharing this in the near future yet I would like to hear more about...
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 7th, 2010, 06:06 pm
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Views: 18,076 Re: How to Better yourself as a teacher?
I recommend the following books:
"Learning Teaching" - Scrivener
"Grammar for English Teachers" - Swan
"Grammar in Use" - Murphy
"500 Activities for the Primary Classroom" - Read
"Discover English"...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 28th, 2010, 04:02 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,351 Re: Recording Lessons
How would one go about organising a video recording of a lesson? What would you say to the DoS? Does anyone have a template for a release form?
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 26th, 2010, 11:54 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 26th, 2010, 11:08 am
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Views: 5,947 Re: Some Useful Websites (including my blog)
Just posted a new lesson plan in my blog with some complementary ideas. Hope this is useful. You can view it here (http://eltexperiences.blogspot.com/2010/04/perfect-day-lesson-plan.html).
I am...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 24th, 2010, 09:45 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,351 Recording Lessons
Hello all. I am thinking about recording my lessons on a video recorder to post on my blog. What do you think are the implications of recording a lesson? Are there any legal ramifications (eg....
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 21st, 2010, 10:35 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,050 Re: My difficult class
Get them to create their own game and they write the rules. You could give them some equipment (dice, colour cards, etc) and then they think in a group to create the game but the focus is on English...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 21st, 2010, 10:08 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,947 Re: Some Useful Websites (including my blog)
I am still looking for people to subscribe to my blog as I would like to share some ideas and experiences amongst those that are interested and really get the blog quite active. I have had a little...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 18th, 2010, 05:49 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 39,069 Re: Effective ways of teaching phrases?
For language learners it can be a difficult process. I have had numerous students able to understand the grammar, say for example the difference between the past simple and past progressive...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 18th, 2010, 04:32 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,947 Re: Some Useful Websites (including my blog)
Thank you Beatrix. How is you teaching getting on? Since leaving Korea, I went for a period of transition where I had to settle and get used to a whole new classroom environment. An international...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Apr 18th, 2010, 10:18 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 18th, 2010, 10:17 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 18th, 2010, 04:21 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,947 Some Useful Websites (including my blog)
Hello all. I hope you are well. I have returned to the UK to teach EFL to young learners and the occassional adult class. I thought I would share the websites that I use in my classes:
1. Cartoon...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 28th, 2009, 02:20 pm
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Views: 10,748 Little Miss Sunshine - Creative Writing Worksheet
Thank you for the Little Miss and Mr Men books. I decided to scan the pictures from Little Miss Sunshine to introduce the descriptions of people and also get my teenagers writing creatively.
Please...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 25th, 2009, 01:33 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,958 Re: Nice Little Website for Handouts
I created the following handout (please see the attachment) so that students could group words (Hardware or Software). I used this handout today and it was a good little filler for the first 15...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 18th, 2009, 04:39 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,958 Nice Little Website for Handouts
Found a nice little website for creating nice handouts for vocabulary. Seems refreshing:
Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds (http://www.wordle.net)
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 9th, 2009, 04:08 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,729 Re: First Grammar Question in Years
Thank you for the help kisito. How would you go about teaching this to a class of Intermediate students? The students were as puzzled as I was when we got down to the grammar. They knew the...
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Forum: English Questions
Aug 8th, 2009, 12:14 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,729 First Grammar Question in Years
I was teaching a class and the students had a correction exercise to do. One question popped up about the following statement:
"I have breakfast before having a shower".
How would you teach the...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 28th, 2009, 02:39 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 19,865 Re: Sport Themed Lesson
Did you do this lesson? How did it go? Would you provide any advise? I would really appreciate some feedback as this is one of my first lessons I have created in a long time.
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 27th, 2009, 12:07 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 19,865 Re: Sport Themed Lesson
The second part of the lesson is a bit more focused on the creation of present simple/perfect forms of questions. You need to spend a little bit of time creating the material. The material you need...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jul 21st, 2009, 05:21 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 19,865 Sport Themed Lesson
I have a lesson coming up tomorrow and I thought I would share this lesson that I have created over the evening. However, the following items are needed for the lesson;
Pictures from newspaper...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 1st, 2009, 02:29 am
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Views: 7,812  IELTS Examiner Training/Interview
Hello all. It's been a while since I last posted on this website, but I am still around. I have returned back to the UK to continue EFL and Examining. For those that have known me since commencing...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 19th, 2008, 12:23 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 15,076 Re: Current grammar point?
I am going to be teaching tonite: "used to" grammar point and include the more complicated "had been doing" as well.
I introduced the grammar point: "have been ..." and "have ..." for the student...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 5th, 2008, 12:55 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,721 Re: Copy Right - Curriculum Development
Thank you Eric. I am trying to grant my school the permission to re-use my material (once I leave).
The current difficulties I am facing is this:
I created some preparation material for a BULATS...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 4th, 2008, 10:00 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 17,372 Re: Common Travel and Flight Collocations
Ahmed, as long as there are pictures to support the vocabulary related to a particular topic then I don't believe that there should be any difference of vocabulary related to the level of the...
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