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Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 9th, 2013, 06:03 am
Replies: 3
Views: 5,398
Re: Help!!! - Advice on 90 - minute listening and speaking classes

Hi Denis,

Thank you so much for your helpful advice.

I'm also teaching Chinese students who have to reach an IELTS score of 5.5. at the end of the course.

The trouble is, that the class has mixed...
Forum: Teaching ESL Jan 24th, 2013, 06:32 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 5,398
Help!!! - Advice on 90 - minute listening and speaking classes

Hello guys,

I'd posted a thread asking for suggestions for EAP classes on the esl activities and games forum. It turns out that I'm going to be teaching pre- sessional listening and speaking Ielts...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Jan 19th, 2013, 07:07 am
Replies: 1
Views: 6,165
Activities/Ideas for the first day of an EAP course

Hi all,

I haven't been back to this forum for a while! A belated happy new year to you.
I was wondering if had any suggestions for activities for the first day of an English for Academic Purposes...
Forum: Teaching ESL Oct 10th, 2011, 02:27 am
Replies: 1
Views: 2,711
SOS - need reading material for consciousness -raising approach grammar lesson

Hi all!
Here I am in rainy Edinburgh- Scotland, doing a Masters in Tesol. In 2 days I have a micro-teaching lesson, where I have to present my ss with a reading ( chosen by me ) in which I have...
Forum: Teaching ESL May 17th, 2011, 04:28 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 3,311
Sites and forums for intermediate teenage stdents can practice their English

Hi all!
I've got 2 more lessons left with my teens (I can't believe I'm going to miss them!). I was wondering if any of you could recommend any sites or forums where they could practice their English...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Apr 4th, 2011, 12:23 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 6,948
Easter Scavenger Hunt for teens

Hi all,
I'm thinking of doing an easter scavenger hunt for my teenage class (ages 15-18) at intermediate level. I plan to use our classroom, the study room, two empty classrooms.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Forum: Teaching ESL Mar 8th, 2011, 08:09 am
Replies: 8
Views: 6,811
Re: 8 year old who can't understand sentences...

Hi again Roja.Luckily the book i use with my pupils provides songs and chants where the key sounds are highlighted. The kids learn the chant or song after seeing the phoneme on its own and after...
Forum: Teaching ESL Mar 3rd, 2011, 05:08 am
Replies: 8
Views: 6,811
Re: 8 year old who can't understand sentences...

Hi Roja123,
I 've just started teaching children, so I'm no expert , but here are some suggestions.
I use the Incredible English series with my classes (ages 7-10) and in the book there are grammar...
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 24th, 2011, 06:10 pm
Replies: 1
Views: 5,068
Wink books to help teens improve their writing skills

Can anyone suggest materials (mainly books) for intermediate level teen students to help improve their writing skills in English?
Some of my students will be sitting the PET exam, soon and they're a...
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 24th, 2011, 05:56 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 3,619
Re: Freelance teacher's bag!

I 'm old school and tend to write lesson plans by hand in a note book. Although I do use my laptop for extra activities such as lesson plans and adapted material from the net.
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 23rd, 2011, 06:26 am
Replies: 1
Views: 4,145
woman's day lesson for teens

Hi all,
>I'm thinking of doing a lesson on the origins of woman's day with my teenage class.
There are simply tons of resources on the web, I still have to get my head round them all.
Has anyone done...
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 19th, 2011, 06:14 am
Replies: 0
Views: 5,092
Help: need examples of stories for the Pet Exam

Hi all.
I'm teaching a class of intermediate level adults that will be taking the PET exam soon.
In the written section of the exam there are 2 parts: grammar and use of English and compositions....
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 14th, 2011, 10:19 am
Replies: 0
Views: 2,604
Teacher exchange programmes/summer workshops

Hiya!
I was wondering if anyone has participated or could suggest a teacher exchange programme or workshop for the summer.
I am a bilingual (English/Italian) Esl teacher and I'll soon be done...
Forum: Teaching ESL Feb 14th, 2011, 10:14 am
Replies: 10
Views: 7,494
Re: Help: in dire need of songs for kids to practice can can't

Thanks again for all your suggestions. Anything you can do from Annie Get Your Gun, seems to be quite popular! I've solved my dilemma long ago though.
I think it would be good with teens and adults,...
Forum: Teaching ESL Jan 30th, 2011, 04:35 am
Replies: 1
Views: 5,636
Second conditional songs suitable for teenage boys and girls

Hey all!
I posted a message on the forum yesterday regarding some suggestions on teaching the second conditional.
I have more or less planned how to do it but I need a song that illustrates the point...
Forum: Teaching ESL Jan 28th, 2011, 09:29 am
Replies: 1
Views: 5,404
second conditional Celebrity questionnaire Help!

Hi all.
I was just wondering if I could get some suggestions on how to adapt a celebrity questionnaire on the second conditional. The coursebook I'm using is New English File intermediate and the...
Forum: Teaching ESL Jan 17th, 2011, 11:57 am
Replies: 3
Views: 4,685
Re: Suugestions for dealing with Young Learners with a very short attention span

Thak you jakda and Andrew (first poster to reply to my SOS) for your suggestions. Yes I'm trying to incorporate all of the above, songs activities and the like. The hard part is that the kids have...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Jan 16th, 2011, 05:34 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 9,661
can could and to be able to practice games for teens

Hi all.
My teens are a bit stuck with modals for ability can/ could and to be able to.
Do any of you know a fast-paced game to help consolidate this tricky grammar point? I was thinking of...
Forum: Teaching ESL Dec 24th, 2010, 04:09 am
Replies: 6
Views: 6,898
Re: TEFL/TESOL certification...Necessary?

Hello Bkduran, and happy Christmas!
I'm currently teaching adults and children (I've no experience teaching the latter).
I've got the Celta that enables you to teach adults. In my opinion, this...
Forum: Teaching ESL Dec 15th, 2010, 03:58 pm
Replies: 3
Views: 4,685
Suugestions for dealing with Young Learners with a very short attention span

Attention YL teachers: I'm sending out a BIG Sos.
I'm reaching 4 classes, 2 of which are young learners (ages 7-10).
I'm having a really hard time with one group of pupils. It's not a large class (9...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Dec 15th, 2010, 03:35 pm
Replies: 0
Views: 7,965
Christmas games for teens :16/18 year-olds

Hello all!
I need some fast-paced X-mas games and activites to keep my notoriously hard to please teens interested.
Do you think a treasure/scavenger hunt is too childish?
They are Intermediate...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Dec 10th, 2010, 08:22 am
Replies: 3
Views: 15,767
Re: text message decoding games for teens

Thank you makao school,
I did my lesson already (I found a lesson on text messaging and adapted it ).
It was quite successful (although with teens it's hard to decode their opinions).
I'll save the...
Forum: Teaching ESL Nov 22nd, 2010, 04:00 am
Replies: 0
Views: 2,865
Young learner projects

Hello everyone,
I teach 2 classes of YL (ages 7-10) and was wondering if there where any sites or if anyone could suggest ready made posters that the kids could fill in for Christmas (as a project to...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Nov 20th, 2010, 09:57 am
Replies: 3
Views: 15,767
text message decoding games for teens

Hi all,
I seem to be haunting the boards a lot these days! ;-)
I'm going to be doing a lesson on modern manners with my teen SS. The context is using your mobile phone in public. The grammar focus...
Forum: ESL Games and Activities Nov 15th, 2010, 03:05 am
Replies: 6
Views: 99,633
10 minute games for teenage learners

Hello all,
I need some fairly easy games to set up (that don't require much preparation) for those seemingly endless 10 minutes before the bell rings.
I've got teenage SS and I've done hangman, hot...
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