Forum: ESL Games and Activities 
Oct 31st, 2007, 12:58 am
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Views: 37,437  Re: Reported Speech Activity
I taught the lesson today and it went over very well. And since it is Halloween today, instead of saying:
The teacher told you to play basketball.
I found a scary picture of a witch and told...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 29th, 2007, 11:52 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 37,437 Re: Reported Speech Activity
I thought of an idea:becky: I'm going to play charades. I will put the class into groups. And each group will get some cards with commands written on them like: Ride a horse. Play basketball. ...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 29th, 2007, 10:28 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 37,437 Reported Speech Activity
Hello everyone. I'm teaching in a Japanese JHS. This week I'm teaching reported speech. I have lots of worksheets to practice, but I don't have anything that is really interesting/fun. (I don't...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 28th, 2007, 10:20 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 11,565 Elementary School Phonics Lesson
Hello everyone! I am teaching at a J.H.S. in Japan and while the students are taking their tests next week, I am being sent to the elementary school next door :doh: I have to teach three classes...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Apr 17th, 2007, 08:28 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 12,272 Culture Class
Hello everyone out there. I am teaching at a junior high and once a week I teach a “culture class”
to each of the third year classes. During the first class I handed out a questionnaire to try to...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 10th, 2006, 08:07 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 56,064 Re: Can / Can't activity for middle school, help!
I haven't tried this, but it just popped into my head.
You can make up personality cards with things that people can and can’t do. And pass them out to the students and then the students have a...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 23rd, 2006, 08:39 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 39,913 Re: Relative Clauses
Well I must say that I find teaching this grammar point somewhat difficult, but a good way to keep the students interest is to find some information about their teachers that the students don't know....
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 13th, 2006, 08:37 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 10th, 2006, 06:14 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 10th, 2006, 06:04 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 19th, 2006, 09:05 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 39,913 Relative Clauses
Hello everyone,
I'm asking this on behalf of all the AET's that are teaching in Japanese Junior High Schools. This time of year the third year students begin to study relative clauses:
- This...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 17th, 2006, 08:28 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,115 Re: Drilling in large classes
I need to edit my first post, but I don't know how. I called Eric's game SLAP, when I should have said SLAM.
Susan53, thanks for the reply! I really think your idea would be a lot of fun, I...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Oct 17th, 2006, 07:15 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,115 Drilling in large classes
Hello everyone,
Tomorrow I'm going to be teaching second year junior high kids
A: What do you want to be (for Halloween)?
B: I want to be ..."
And since it's going to be Halloween this month, I'm...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Sep 1st, 2006, 07:38 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,400 Re: Activity ideas for "~too ~to ~"
Thanks again for the help.
As I was laying in bed the idea of a game I read about somewhere on here popped into my head.
It's similar to what you said of seeing how many sentences they can make...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 1st, 2006, 03:53 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,747 Re: Have you read any good ESL Books?
That's exactly what I'm looking for, to get out or a rut and get some more life into my students (they're JH kids), a boost in my teaching, and improve my lessons all at the same time.
I agree...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Sep 1st, 2006, 03:46 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Sep 1st, 2006, 12:42 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 12,400 Activity ideas for "~too ~to ~"
Does anyone have any good activites for teaching, "~too adjective ~to verb." (He is too young to drive a car. It is too expensive to fly home for summer vacation. He is too cold to eat ice...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 1st, 2006, 12:29 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,747 Have you read any good ESL Books?
This is a call to all those experienced teachers who have done some research/reading about teaching English as a foreign language.
I've been teaching for almost 3 years, two years at a...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 29th, 2006, 01:07 am
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