Forum: Teaching ESL 
Jul 20th, 2010, 08:30 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 19th, 2010, 10:43 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 3rd, 2010, 08:39 pm
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Views: 3,937  Re: Summer School
As you teach, you can introduce some famous landmarks from the countries, show their flags, and even let the students listen to the countries national songs. At the end you could even have a...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 2nd, 2010, 10:43 pm
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jun 1st, 2010, 11:20 pm
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Views: 60,051 Re: Conversation Activities for 12-18 year olds
I think this game would be pretty good. My students in China seem a little sheltered though. They don't know much about the media outside of China (they do know transformers, will smith, and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 1st, 2010, 11:06 pm
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Views: 5,314 Re: Your first class topic :D
I think a survey would be a good idea too. I like that idea for a bigger class tho. So far, I have only 3 students tho (2 students had signed up and an extra had checked the class for a demo and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 26th, 2010, 10:17 pm
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Views: 5,314 Re: Your first class topic :D
I've worked at this school before...when I was a brand new teacher. Back then, I had only 2 students and it remained that way for the entire duration of the class. This is a conversation class tho,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 26th, 2010, 11:26 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 5,314 Your first class topic :D
Today, I picked up a 2nd school. I will be teaching there 2 days a week, for 2 hours a day. My first class is Saturday. It's an upper level, intermediate class. I have a pretty solid class set...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 24th, 2010, 08:33 am
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Views: 59,022 Re: Classroom management (discipline)
Make it interesting. Get into the kids head. Find out what he likes. I know in China the kids around here absolutely love Ultraman/Power Rangers. So to make things more interesting when learning...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 9th, 2010, 09:47 am
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Views: 13,448 Re: Sight Words with Samson
Every now and then after the daily warm up I play a simple game with the students. I have all the sight words they have learned in a chart...separated into 3 different groups. Words in each group...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 28th, 2010, 04:37 am
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Views: 6,161 Re: My difficult class
Ahhh, thanks everyone for responses. Classes are much better now. I've got a lot of interesting games to play from messing around with Smart Notebook. My classes rotate with the local teachers (so...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 25th, 2010, 09:48 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 59,022 Re: Classroom management (discipline)
Recently, I've discovered this works very well for my classes. I teach 6 classes a week (from preschool to middle school). I write my lesson plan on the board. Everything's covered: warm up,...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 14th, 2010, 12:14 am
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Views: 4,335 Re: Multi-touch in the classroom
Yeah, we'll be using it for games and just some more interactive lessons. Right now the Smart boards we have in the classrooms are interactive White boards. The tables will be a lot of fun. I know...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 13th, 2010, 03:55 am
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Views: 4,335 Multi-touch in the classroom
My school is a pretty advanced school when it comes to technology. We have smart boards and some other nifty things in the classrooms. Now, the school is looking into get Multi-touch tables for the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 8th, 2010, 07:54 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,161 My difficult class
Hey there! I'm looking for help for my most difficult class. Here's some background on the class.
My school is a prep school in China. The school is pretty expensive and most of the students in...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 22nd, 2010, 10:59 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 75,601 Re: Thank you.... You're welcome???
I agree with most of you on here concerning 'no problem.' I worked as a retail manager for four years before I became a teacher. I instructed my employees to say something else. What we do...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 20th, 2010, 02:22 am
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Views: 4,054 Play line learning and rehearsal
Alrighty, so my school wants to show off some of our students and make a great little DVD for the parents. While I think it's a great idea, so far it hasn't been so fun/interesting for the students....
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 20th, 2010, 12:15 am
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Views: 6,682 Re: Turn your class into a video game!
Online could work as well. There are many possibilities in doing this. Online would be a safe bet too in that students could keep up with their stats on a real time basis and could find the extra...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 19th, 2010, 10:30 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 6,682 Turn your class into a video game!
Recently, I read of a video game university back home in the USA doing this. I think something like this could be a hit in countries like China, Japan, and S. Korea. Massive Multiplayer Online Role...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 12th, 2010, 05:28 am
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Views: 14,176 icebreaker for new class! 3-6 year olds!
Ok, just told today that I have a new class that begins tomorrow morning at 9:30am. I'm looking for an icebreaker. The students know zero english from what I've been told. A lot of times, students...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 10th, 2010, 02:48 am
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Views: 5,135 Making a review class interesting
Finally, after about 6 months of teaching I've finally gotten into the groove of things. I enjoy making lessons now and playing games. My classes can be a little difficult at times (as can the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2010, 03:59 am
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Views: 9,671 Re: Handling vocabulary
Maybe, before you actually teach the text or listen to the audio, you could show them the words. This way you could introduce the words in the way you want to and then they'll get the needed...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 3rd, 2010, 03:55 am
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Views: 3,307 Re: Please tell me what you think of this game.
If your goal is to have them all answer at the same time...give them a couple of seconds to talk softly amongst themselves and get the answer. The noise level should be kept low considering they...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 2nd, 2010, 04:35 am
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Views: 6,975 Re: Frustrated Adult Learner
Building on what others have said on interests and hobbies....
If he has the internet why not have him join some english forums based on his hobbies. If he's into sports, join a sports forum. He...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 28th, 2010, 03:03 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 9,706 Re: Conversation Class lower level
Those are great ideas. Actually, what I was creating now is a description unit (similar to what you mentioned). I'll use some of your ideas and see how it goes! Thanks a lot. I'll keep you...
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