Forum: ESL Games and Activities 
Sep 29th, 2011, 02:58 am
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Views: 16,992  Re: Upcoming Halloween activities
There are some ideas I wrote out on another forum. One fun game for teens would be the Tootsie Toss (http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2608#2608). Games that take some dexterity...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Sep 23rd, 2011, 06:57 am
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Views: 9,204 Re: Teaching double comparatives
Does the textbook really have double comparatives?
*I'm more better than him.
*She has gotten more worse.
and sentences like that?
In standard (American) English this is considered "bad" English. ...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Sep 23rd, 2011, 06:51 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,392 Re: Practicing Dialogue with 3 year olds
Most of the time I'm just working on passive listening skills with this age group. They respond to English, sing some songs, practice single words, and answer questions. Getting them to perform...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 20th, 2011, 11:30 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,214 Re: sign vs. autograph
both sound fine to me but I think autographed ball is better.
However, if you do an image search for "signed ball...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 20th, 2011, 11:24 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,133 Re: Struggling to make this work
hang in there. It may take some time to get used to it all and find out what works best for you and the students. Teaching abroad is very different from teaching in your home culture. See what you...
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 6th, 2011, 11:13 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,050 Re: Online ESL School?
Am I reading this right? You don't want to attend or take classes. You want to work with them in some manner, right?
Most major university's have an online option, at least for some undergrad...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 19th, 2011, 11:37 pm
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Replies: 4
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Forum: General Chat
Aug 11th, 2011, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 5,390 Re: Degree Requirements
Denise - I'm in Japan, but I'd have to say I doubt that you'd legally qualify for the visa. Now, they may not know the difference and accept you thinking your degree is a 4 year degree from XYZ...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 11th, 2011, 11:37 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 27,481 Re: Game ideas for 2 students - HELP!
Games for teens need to be more engaging as games by themselves. What I mean is the game needs to be interesting and then you can add some language task in as a part. As bread baker says card games...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 10th, 2011, 10:29 pm
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Views: 3,734 Re: Efl and vocational teahing
Do mean like a technical school? Something like car repair, electrician, plumbing, beauty college?
If so, it's best to search for such things as "medical English", "hotel English", "English for...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 7th, 2011, 04:46 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 24th, 2011, 08:18 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,340 Re: Thanks
I think Emily is right, the sentence seems grammatically correct to me. However, I think they may mean "try to walk on water"
but even then, as Emily stated, I don't really understand what they are...
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Forum: The Worksheet Maker
Jun 24th, 2011, 08:04 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 24,457 Re: Domino wizard worksheet
I'm confused :doh::confused:
So the cards are double sided? picture on one side and flip the card over and you have a different picture on the other side?
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Forum: The Worksheet Maker
Jun 23rd, 2011, 05:55 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 24,457 Re: Domino wizard worksheet
Here is an explanation on how to play language games with dominoes (http://www.mes-english.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3104)
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Forum: General Chat
Jun 7th, 2011, 07:52 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,813 Re: ESL Jobs for non-native teachers
Have a look through this thread:
http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/teaching-esl/there-any-teaching-jobs-non-native-speakers-15359/
Beatrix did find a job in China (I believe) in the end.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 5th, 2011, 05:47 pm
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 17th, 2011, 01:18 am
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Views: 7,719 Re: One-on-one games!
I sometimes have one-on-one classes with 5 year olds. Good games are:
Concentration (http://www.mes-english.com/games/moregamestoplay1.php)
Spiders and Candy...
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Forum: English Questions
May 2nd, 2011, 07:21 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 8,926 Re: Long live the king! - structure?
Thanks, Sue! I was told it was subjunctive and I just couldn't see how. It seems more like a command, but I was stumped.
Could we say the same for a cheer, like "Go Madrid!"
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 27th, 2011, 06:45 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Apr 6th, 2011, 08:00 pm
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Views: 8,021 Re: Easter Scavenger Hunt for teens
Instead of have all of the teams go at once, you could have them make their own messages, hide the egg, and then time the teams to see how long it takes them to find "the golden egg". The fast team...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Apr 2nd, 2011, 12:06 am
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Views: 5,405 Re: Making dreaded exam practice a lot more fun!
A good grammar game for test review is the Grammar Casino (http://www.mes-english.com/games/grammarcasino.php). You can add test review questions to the template and play with a large class or even...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 18th, 2011, 06:04 am
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Replies: 9
Views: 107,556 Re: English Games and Activities for 3 year olds
Online Phonics Games (http://www.funfonix.com/games/) - free phonics games
MES Games (http://www.marks-english-school.com/games.html) - free vocabulary games
Those are 2 sites you can use with...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 11th, 2011, 05:57 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,671 Earthquake in Japan - I hope everyone is OK
I'm in Nagano and we had some sizable tremors but no damage here and just slight damage in the surrounding areas (cracked pavement, some signs down, power outages.)
I know there are a lot of people...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 9th, 2011, 07:07 pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 6,865 Re: Motivating Adults to Speak
It could be their personalities or the class make up (men to women ratio, all men, all women.) it may be they just don't feel confident or they just have nothing to say on the subject.
You could...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 9th, 2011, 06:55 pm
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Replies: 9
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