Forum: Teaching ESL 
May 30th, 2009, 10:34 pm
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Views: 3,117  Re: What is your specialty?
I like to work with teachers and give them new ideas, techniques, and activities to be better teachers.
Of course working with English-language students is great, but I can only reach so many...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 27th, 2009, 07:50 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 13,441 Re: Need help with 80 afterschool class
Have you considered reviewing particular themes/grammar. Review sounds boring, so maybe that's not the best word. But you can return and do a theme again, just tweak it a bit. If you talked about...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 20th, 2009, 10:01 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 4,988 Re: What Type of Teacher Are You?
Nice list, but a lot missing (of course... who ever really fits into neat categories?). This is the start of a good threat, though.
What kind of teacher are you?
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 20th, 2009, 07:52 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 5,584 Re: Interview Rubric
Here's one of the resources that I used when designing an assessment test. It may be useful for you. Go to the information on page 3.
http://www.webplace.ca/SPEAK.pdf
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 12th, 2009, 03:22 am
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 28th, 2009, 08:57 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 21st, 2009, 04:58 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,517 Re: 1st day jitters
As everyone else has said, don't worry. The students will likely be more nervous than you (although they may not show it).
Something to consider in terms of activities and preparation, always plan...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 14th, 2009, 03:59 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 25th, 2009, 10:16 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 19th, 2009, 03:15 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,049 Re: Keeping your distance...
Where are you teaching? The culture is different from back home, so perceptions may be different. How familiar are you with the culture there? How familiar are you with the education system...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 18th, 2009, 03:52 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 14,373 Re: Oral ESL for Adults--Help!
Here's a good article a colleague of mine wrote about news articles. It shows what skills adult learners may still need to improve, even advanced ones:
Farmer - How to Effectively Use News Articles...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 16th, 2009, 11:12 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,578 Re: Reverse culture shock
There will be small adjustments, but Diana is largely correct: Much will have remained the same.
One month is perfect, though. It gives you the chance to catch up on all the things you loved to do,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 10th, 2009, 03:19 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 14,373 Re: Oral ESL for Adults--Help!
It's hard to give really helpful advice without knowing the students' need for English. Are they there to learn? Do they just want to chat? Has HR sent them as part of a company-wide...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 2nd, 2009, 10:42 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 1st, 2009, 09:39 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,301 Re: Online TEFL course
Thanks Eric for doing the research on this. It's important that scams like this are called out. I'm sure more than one person would have given the site a second thought.
I'm always constantly amazed...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 20th, 2009, 05:50 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,844 Re: thematic unit
Good luck with the idea, and I hope it works well in the classroom. Glad to be of help.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 20th, 2009, 04:18 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 4,844 Re: thematic unit
Instead of building a lesson around a grammar point, you build a lesson around a topic. When you're giving the lesson, any grammar mistakes or misused vocabulary proves less important than...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 13th, 2009, 01:21 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 13th, 2009, 12:08 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 18,211 Re: Any ideas for a good ESL placement test?
I just spent quite a bit of time researching tests as part of a level assessment at my school. Are you looking for a written or an oral test? How long do you want the test to run? Do you want it...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 3rd, 2009, 03:56 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 26th, 2009, 09:37 pm
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Views: 3,633 TOEIC courses
Hi Everyone,
I need some ideas, help, support... whatever you can offer.
I'll be putting together a curriculum to teach TOEIC through a communicative approach this year at work. The approach must...
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Forum: General Chat
Jan 23rd, 2009, 01:14 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 22,865 Re: one to one conversation class
What level is your boss? High(er) levels can participate more in free conversation. Low(er) levels need the structure of a regular lesson.
At any rate, I would choose a few phrases that can be used...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jan 13th, 2009, 06:10 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 6th, 2009, 04:00 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,164 Re: Difficult adult beginner
Do you mean elementary age students or students at the beginning of their English studies?
In the meantime, there are a lot of problem-solving activities that you can use with your classes. Here's...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 16th, 2008, 09:04 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 15,376 Re: Current grammar point?
I've just finished the past progressive with a private student yesterday. But I've also been focusing on conditionals, which means designing and testing new worksheets for Heads Up English... which...
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