Forum: Teaching ESL 
Jul 7th, 2008, 08:40 am
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Views: 7,728  Re: Do you suopport ESL co-teaching? What type?
Style 2 is the norm in Japanese JHS.
It's quite difficult to deal with if you don't agree with the objectives. I assume the general reason for English study in that situation is for test...
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Forum: English Questions
Jul 3rd, 2008, 07:41 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 29th, 2008, 07:06 am
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Views: 5,625 Re: English vs. ESL
right.
right.
still ESL.
You can have testing in both environments. It's really the environment and the students daily need for/use of the language that defines ESL or EFL. You can have ESL...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 27th, 2008, 04:58 am
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Views: 3,222 Re: Your EFL English curriculum?
They're all important though, aren't they?
Deeming something not important would be based around individual, their age and needs for English.
How about tossing some ideas out and we'll vote on...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 26th, 2008, 05:04 pm
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Views: 75,832 Re: Thank you.... You're welcome???
Bagga, where are you from? I wonder if this is a regional thing.
'No problem.' doesn't refer to the favor but to the task. It's used to lower the debt of gratitude stating the work involved wasn't...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Jun 24th, 2008, 04:50 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 24th, 2008, 04:48 am
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Views: 8,636 Re: New conversation class. Ideas pleeeeze
Here's a podcast on new classes with adults:
ESL Teacher Talk » Blog Archive » New Classes With Adults (http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2007/07/new-classes-with-adults/)
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 18th, 2008, 08:46 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,625 Re: English vs. ESL
Sorry, I rushed to get that last post off before my 4:00 class started. I think it makes sense, minus the typos, but I wanted to add a little more.
I know it seems that there is a commitment or...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 18th, 2008, 01:58 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,625 Re: English vs. ESL
Patrick - Imagine your PE teacher trying to push you to Olympic gold. Not everyt person in PE class is going to become a professional athlete. Not every student in art class will become a painter. ...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 17th, 2008, 07:04 am
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Views: 6,829 Re: How long to teach a topic?
I teach one topic for 3 or 4 weeks (one class per week) and then I move on, but in the beginning of class I have a 10-15 minute review time where I continue to practice and review the previous topics...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 17th, 2008, 01:07 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,625 Re: English vs. ESL
I'm not really sure what you mean.
However, EFL is English as a Foreign Language. Its primary objectives aren't English as a second language, meaning they aren't trying to create fluent speakers...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 16th, 2008, 07:46 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,625 Re: English vs. ESL
Well EFL and ESL are quite different. EFL is generally structured around acedemics. It's taught and tested like math. Most of the time the real 'use' of the learning on the students part is for...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Jun 16th, 2008, 06:17 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,551 Re: We have a new game that may help!
Steven - Great game and good luck with the site.
Is there any reason you don't have previews of the downloads. I'm sure you'd have more buyers, if you had a preview of whatever it is they'll get. ...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 15th, 2008, 04:46 pm
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Views: 3,716 Re: Our customer demanded we / asked us to
Thanks! I couldn't find and rhyme or reason for it, but I was hesitant to just say, 'Well, because that's the way it is ...'
So, I told them i'd run it by some people.
Thanks again :D
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 15th, 2008, 05:01 am
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Views: 3,716 Our customer demanded we / asked us to
Any idea why we can't say:
"Our customers demanded us to send the packages by Friday."
I was teaching an advanced business class and looking some of their emails. Two people came up with the above...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 9th, 2008, 10:03 am
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Views: 4,690 Re: Bargain vs moderate
Check outh a Google battle of the 2 with 'a' included (http://www.googlebattle.com/index.php?domain=%22a+bargain+cost%22&domain2=%22a+moderate+cost%22&submit=Go%21), and you'll see that 'moderate! is...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 9th, 2008, 09:54 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,690 Re: Bargain vs moderate
actually, having now posted, I think the problem with 'bargain cost' is the 'a'. If I would use 'bargaib cost', I wouldn't use the particle 'a'.
But, again, I wouldn't use it.
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 9th, 2008, 09:52 am
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Views: 4,690 Re: Bargain vs moderate
I think moderate is the best of the choices, but it may just be the most common collocation. I would definitely understand 'bargain cost' but it would sound funny to me, possibly some other dialect...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 2nd, 2008, 12:12 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,942 Re: Help me...
Stripped down you'd still need to look at it in question form. "Where was my house?"
Then you'd need to dissern whether in the context, that was the question the speaker was asking, or whether the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 2nd, 2008, 12:12 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,942 Re: Help me...
It is a reduced relative clause and the word 'wearing' is the present participle of 'wear'.
Whether it's the present participle or a gerund depends on whether it acts like a verb or adjective...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 31st, 2008, 05:52 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 31st, 2008, 02:15 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,942 Re: Help me...
That's what they're called in ESL teaching as far as I know.
Your 'where' question is a little tricky. There's also wh-relative clauses. Which is probably more correct for your example.
I didn't...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 30th, 2008, 10:13 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 57,300 Re: yes/no questions(verb to be)short answers
I just replied to someone about this on another forum
the verb 'to be' (http://www.mes-english.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2182)
there are a couple game and activity ideas there.
What are you...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 30th, 2008, 07:47 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 3,942 Re: Help me...
"I can't tell where my house was."
This is an embedded question.
"It's a festival held in the fall."
This is a reduced relative clause.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 28th, 2008, 09:33 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,656 Re: America vs. US?
The real question is why did he correct you? Was there a communication error? Did he not understand what place you spoke of? Does he want Canada to be called Canada of America?
Does he have a...
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