Forum: English Questions 
Apr 12th, 2008, 06:34 pm
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Views: 42,894  Re: Take a train or catch a train?
To me 'catch' implies I'm running late and have to hurry to catch the train.
otherwise I'd plan on taking the train (or even 'get' a train, although I'm sure that's not proper usage)
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 6th, 2008, 06:14 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 30,665 Re: Teaching English in French primary schools
abonnenfant,
haven't heard of that method before, sounds interesting. As with all these methods I get fed up if you have to pay big money to access it. I like the idea of telling stories though and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 5th, 2008, 01:04 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,519 Re: Do you videotape your students? When? Where?
Am going to!
Plan to revise most of the topics covered during the year and take small video clips, then compile into a DVD with subtitles to give to each pupil at the end of the year. Hopefully...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 1st, 2008, 04:13 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 30,665 Re: Teaching English in French primary schools
Rouvrou,
You mentioned traditional tales which led me to wonder if you have received the Alice in Wonderland book from Langues pour Tous, recommended by the minister of education? It comes with 1/2...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 21st, 2008, 04:36 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 13,379 Re: Hire vs Rent
I think 'hire' and 'rent' are both fine (british english)
Recently we rented a car and son, who loves cars, insisted on discussing it at length. To differentiate bet it and another we called it the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 13th, 2008, 11:46 am
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Replies: 28
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 13th, 2008, 11:42 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 30,665 Re: Teaching English in French primary schools
cjj,
Fabulous post.
Does it take long to actually learn the signing yourself? I think I may investigate your links and try this as I feel that what I'm currently doing seems disjointed (although,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 12th, 2008, 05:59 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 30,665 Re: Teaching English in French primary schools
Hi Rouvrou, glad to have found you! :D
I find the kids here so enthusiastic and not at all afraid to speak. This is new to me as I mostly taught teenagers and adults before, so I'm not sure if it's...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 12th, 2008, 05:38 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,068 Re: Doodle vs Scrawl vs scribble
I would conside that to 'doodle' is to create a picture, or drawing while doing something else, to 'scrawl' is to write something badly (but it is words you are forming, not something abstract) and...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 7th, 2008, 04:04 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 50,715 Re: match or game?
Am no expert but I would say they are mostly interchangeable. I would go to a football game or match, but I would consider 'game' to be more familiar (the real fans would call it a game).
In tennis...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 26th, 2008, 02:09 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,627 Re: terms for how it snows
snow is 'falling' all around us, children playing .....
sorry not going to be much help really. the irish know millions of word for rain, I think you need to wait for a Canadian to come along...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 26th, 2008, 02:06 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,152 Re: How to teach without wild games or activites?
Just an update on this situation.
The teacher demands absolute silence while I'm teaching and kids must put up their hands when they want to speak.
At first I thought I'd never get them to enjoy...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 6th, 2008, 03:56 pm
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Replies: 47
Views: 56,948 Re: What age group do you prefer?
he he, and then they don't even know what they were being picked to do!
I started with high school, went to uni, then adults and back to high school and thought I loved teaching. Now I'm teaching 9...
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Forum: Matching Worksheets
Jan 5th, 2008, 03:45 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,936 Numbers matching
Click Here To See This Worksheet. (http://www.eslhq.com/worksheets/preview_worksheet.php?worksheet_id=74199)
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Numbers matching...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 18th, 2007, 04:12 am
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Replies: 5
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 17th, 2007, 02:39 pm
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Views: 6,298 small, easy, beginner theatre project
Hi all,
I would love to prepare and present a play with my beginner classes (ages 8 and 9), -and possibly video it and give them the DVD at the end of the year - but they are complete beginners so...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 17th, 2007, 02:20 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 34,224 |
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Forum: Drawing Worksheets
Dec 12th, 2007, 07:14 am
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Replies: 0
Views: 3,976 Christmas Vocab and colouring
Click Here To See This Worksheet. (http://www.eslhq.com/worksheets/preview_worksheet.php?worksheet_id=72864)
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Christmas Vocab and colouring...
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Forum: General Chat
Dec 12th, 2007, 07:05 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,397 Re: Returning to work after drinking ?
yeah in france too a glass of wine would be taken with lunch, but I would imagine it's becoming less common nowadays.
me too, i'd kill for a decent guinness.... but going home at christmas so should...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 7th, 2007, 10:24 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,152 Re: How to teach without wild games or activites?
I love the snakes and ladders idea, could be adapted to include any vocab/structures. I will try that with smaller group. With the larger group, when divided into teams, I can only be with one or two...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 6th, 2007, 07:09 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,152 Re: How to teach without wild games or activites?
englipatrick,
yes all worksheets are good, but i do worry about doing too much 'written' work and not so much oral. Most of the materials to encourage oral work seem to be in the form of games, and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 5th, 2007, 09:13 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,152 How to teach without wild games or activites?
While looking for ideas for a class on this and other sites, it's become evident that I'm in a fairly unique situation i think.
My students (French, aged 8 and 9) do not need any encouragement to...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 5th, 2007, 09:05 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 54,960 |
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Forum: General Chat
Nov 27th, 2007, 05:30 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 19,375 Re: Country Mouse or City Mouse?
Grew up in the country and hated the remoteness, the boredom.
Moved to the city for uni and all my working life chose big cities and loved the buzz, the bars, the metro, the entertainment, the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 27th, 2007, 05:21 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 4,509 |
