Forum: General Chat 
Mar 15th, 2009, 08:43 pm
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Views: 4,417  Re: Reverse culture shock
Thanks.
I think because I've lived in China for 2 years, I've grown accustomed to hearing Chinese everywhere and being a minority, going back to England and hearing English everywhere I go will be a...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 15th, 2009, 07:27 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,417 Reverse culture shock
Hi all.
So I will be returning home for a short holiday in the coming summer.
However, this will be my first time home in 2 years (2 and a half by the time I return). Where as I do want to go back to...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 14th, 2009, 07:06 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 26,971 Re: Very young learners
Do you have a teaching assistant at all? By the sounds of it, you don't have 1.
I would try address the problem with the school and/or your teaching assistant and tell them that you need a better...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 13th, 2009, 03:07 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,413 Re: 1st day jitters
Yeah I think because I was teaching in a new environment, I felt a little
nervous about the change.
For the past year I have been doing kindergartens, where I would be playing games, songs and have...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 11th, 2009, 11:35 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,413 1st day jitters
Hi all.
Does anyone else suffer from the 1st day jitters?
Today was the beginning of the school term, but also the start of a new job for me.
Now I've had 2 years experience (1 year EF, 1 year...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 9th, 2009, 06:04 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 57,936 Re: First Day Activities for 5 year olds?
ckw25- no need to thank...glad to be of help.
Make the most of the room you are in too. When i taught in my kindergarten, I taught the classes in the "playroom", which had loads of props i found...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 6th, 2009, 06:17 am
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Replies: 5
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 6th, 2009, 05:14 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 6,418 Re: Any help for keep kids interested
Just out of interest, what school are you teaching at?
Find out what the students enjoy and find a way to teach them about their hobbies.
I once had a class of teenage boys and I never enjoyed the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 6th, 2009, 04:21 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 50,721 Re: Teaching English to 1 and 2 year olds
Wow, I feel sorry for you that you have to teach children that young for 30 minutes.
I used to do it with children 2 years old and their attention span would last 10 mins at the most before they got...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 6th, 2009, 04:14 am
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Replies: 2
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 6th, 2009, 04:11 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 57,936 Re: First Day Activities for 5 year olds?
Hi.
How long will your class be?
If I was in your situation, I would do headm shoulders, knees and toes, start off slow and get faster each time. Always a great warmer and the kids always enjoy it...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 31st, 2009, 11:37 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 10,535 visual aid for kindergarten level
Hi everyone.
I'm wondering if any one knows where I can find visual aid/videos to teach simple songs or words/phrases for kindergarten level?
I bought 2 vcds here (working in China), but they seem a...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 7th, 2008, 08:49 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 13,537 Christmas theme for Kindergarten
Hi all.
With Christmas coming up, i thought it would be ideal to teach my kindergarten students something christmas related, as Christmas here in China (especially the small city I live) is not a...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Nov 6th, 2008, 11:18 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,926 Re: Looking for Ideas
wow...I honestly give you respect for volunteering for this kind of job, as its nice to give blind kids and equal opportunity to learn English, as well as being a challenge to yourself as a...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 1st, 2008, 11:21 pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 11,575 Re: Some of my students won't listen to me.
this is a good way and ive tried it before. i made the student aware that he/she was wasting the parents money and that the parent wouldnt be pleased.
if also you could make the parent aware of the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 25th, 2008, 07:14 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,934 Re: remembering names
Thanks for the ideas. Never thought of getting the parents to call their kids by their english names.
Will try a few of the games then tell you how they went.
Thanks again
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 17th, 2008, 09:36 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,934 remembering names
Hi everyone.
Sorry if this is a topic that has been covered before,i did a quick search but couldn't find anything.
Does anyone have any good suggestions on how to teach students to remember their...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 17th, 2008, 09:31 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,518 Re: How can I improve my board handwriting?
Also experienced it. When i first started teaching, I found it very hard to write on a whiteboard as i had never wrote on one before.
I often worried that the children couldn't read my writing and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 17th, 2008, 09:24 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 8,847 Re: teaching grammar creatively
go to Mininova : The ultimate BitTorrent source! (http://www.mininova.org) and type in "english teaching" into the search...there it will give you torrents to some PDF files of grammer books that you...
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Forum: Label the Pictures
Jan 18th, 2008, 06:02 pm
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,634 Animals
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Forum: Matching Worksheets
Nov 22nd, 2007, 03:31 am
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,481 Time
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