Forum: Teaching ESL 
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:41 am
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Views: 4,869  Re: What Type of Teacher Are You?
I'm probably an "accidental entertainer" as well, though, really. . . I work with adults and don't have a principal to get upset. (We have a director who loves us as long as the money is flowing.) ...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:37 am
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Views: 3,017 Re: Need Some Suggestions
I just posted a great response (actually, when you read the abbreviated version below, you'll know that I'm just guessing) but it seems to have vanished.
My suggestion is this: see if you can't find...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:31 am
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Views: 3,135 Re: Function
To be honest, I don't think 'functionality' is a word so much as it is marketing speak. I can't think of any context in which I'd use functionality that 'function' wouldn't sound better.
Does that...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:26 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,403 Re: Things that bother you about work...
I'm with Chris:
I dislike the 'business and education' balance. And I dislike being freelance. . . we're in the 'summer hole' in Germany and that means less money.
I could complain about the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:21 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 27th, 2009, 10:15 am
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Views: 3,822 Re: Preparing students for Presentations
My big advice is to always roll-play the situation. If they don't know what the topics will be, give them two or three that you make up, and make them treat them like the 'real thing.'
The hardest...
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Forum: English Questions
May 15th, 2009, 03:48 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,539 Re: Comparison with I.
My mother (the craziest of Grammar-crazies) taught me that to say "more beautiful than me" was wrong. I still say it, but only when I'm being relaxed. Good English, my mother said, was "She is more...
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Forum: English Questions
May 15th, 2009, 03:41 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 24,585 Re: reasonable vs. rational
I agree that rational is 'coldly logical' and 'reasonable' is a feeling. I tell my reasonable is close to 'understandable.' If a restaurant has reasonable prices, then they aren't high or...
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Forum: English Questions
May 15th, 2009, 03:22 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,886 Re: talk to vs talk with
I don't know about the British version--I'm American. But I do sense a slight difference in meaning. If I'm going to talk to someone, the conversation is mostly about what I have to say. (I mean,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 15th, 2009, 03:17 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 25,094 Re: An Ice Breaker Every Day?
Do you know what? I knew that game but I never thought to use it with the group I was talking about. That's a great idea. Thanks.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 12th, 2009, 01:04 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,415 What have you noticed, lately?
Hey, I just made something of a rant in a thread titled "What do you miss from home (http://www.eslhq.com/forums/esl-forums/teaching-esl/what-do-you-miss-home-12493/)," and I thought I should try and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 12th, 2009, 12:59 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 3,227 Re: What do you miss from home?
If you hadn't written 'the most' this would be an easy question. I'd just write a list of about a hundred thousand things. But I think I have a guess. . .
Let me preface this, though, by saying...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 12th, 2009, 12:53 pm
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Forum: English Questions
May 11th, 2009, 03:42 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,653 Re: On the street/In the street
I think this is a British vs. American distinction. I think the British say "In the street" the way Americans say "on the street." But, generally I agree with Mesmark: that's how I use it as an...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 11th, 2009, 03:41 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,213 Re: British vs. American ESL English?
Our school policy is that we teach 'our' English. Basically, I say "This is how I talk." Since I'm American, that means American English. The little bit of British vocabulary I know I include, if...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 11th, 2009, 03:37 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,946 Re: Describe your favorite lesson
I agree with MelissaC: I like it when an advanced level class has students who don't all work together (colleagues often know so much about each other that the 'discovery' isn't really there) and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 11th, 2009, 03:23 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 2,965 Re: 3-day camp layout: Advice?
Hello, TME!
It's hard for me to guess the level of the students based on the materials. I mean, there's a unit on subject/verb agreement, which I think of as being pretty basic, and it's followed...
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Forum: English Questions
May 9th, 2009, 03:37 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 14,009 Re: parenthesis and reading aloud
If it's just 'see figure one' I think you don't have to read it when you read aloud. If it's actual information "John grew up in Roswell, New Mexico (the location of the supposed UFO crash) and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 9th, 2009, 03:24 am
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Replies: 6
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Forum: English Questions
May 8th, 2009, 06:08 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 8,747 Re: present progressive
Nunzia: I don't completely understand your question. The present progressive can be used to discuss arrangements or 'plans' and when you're working is certainly a plan! Most jobs have a schedule...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 4th, 2009, 01:55 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 25,094 Re: An Ice Breaker Every Day?
These were two great suggestions and I'm going to be trying them this week. I wanted to add another that I've found: I've been adapting other games I know (meaning, mainly, drinking games) and one...
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Forum: English Questions
May 4th, 2009, 01:23 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,231 Re: on the verge of vs to be about to
No problem:
"About to," just means that something is the next thing I'm going to do: "I'm about to go into town, do you want me to bring you anything?" "I'm about to eat dinner, can I call you back...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 3rd, 2009, 08:34 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,925 Re: School or Language Company?
I've never actually heard the term "Language Company" until you used it. I'd guess that where I work--Berlitz--counts as a Language Company, though we call ourselves a school. The reason I say that...
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Forum: General Chat
May 3rd, 2009, 08:28 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,620 Re: Favorite Grammar book?
To be honest, I've been teaching for two years (in a private language school) and the only books I've ever used have been from Murphy's. I think that the books do a good job of explaining the...
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Forum: English Questions
May 3rd, 2009, 08:24 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,231 Re: on the verge of vs to be about to
I like the second, because it is how I'd (American) talk. I say 'I'm about to' when I'm talking about the next thing I'm going to do.
'On the verge of' is normally a bit negative for me. I use it...
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