Forum: Teaching ESL 
Apr 23rd, 2008, 09:53 pm
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Views: 6,288  Book-Knowledge vs. Experience
I read through these forums listening to people talk about ESL and everyone is expressing their opinions and ideas. I think this is great! We all come from different backgrounds, areas of study,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 22nd, 2008, 05:38 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,274 Re: Need Some Advice!
You see those websites on the right-hand side of the screen? Those are websites owned by posters on this forum. Some of them are bound to answer your questions...and then some :)
If you still...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 15th, 2008, 08:05 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 15th, 2008, 08:02 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 14th, 2008, 06:46 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 10th, 2008, 02:16 am
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Replies: 0
Views: 2,806 Shapes vs. Age Correlation
I teach in Japan. One thing that dawned on me today was the shapes of cartoon characters. If it geared toward very young children, the shapes will be more rounded. However, teenage cartoons use...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 10th, 2008, 12:30 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,480 Re: Your ESL skills
Emile,
I should have been more specific, I probably more know than the average ESL teacher. Many ESL teachers on this forum own ESL websites and a few of the websites are pretty extensive. To...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 10th, 2008, 12:21 am
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 6th, 2008, 08:44 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 19,767 Re: The couple has arrived
Hue's take was also mine but I didn't want to say anything because I didn't know for sure. BrE and AmE differs in how certain groups are viewed.
BrE: The government are appointed by the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 2nd, 2008, 04:42 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 3,480 Your ESL skills
If you were to rate yourself in your ability to teach ESL, on a scale of 1-10, what would you rate yourself?
I've almost been in the biz 5 years, and I still feel like I know hardly anything...
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Apr 2nd, 2008, 04:34 am
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Replies: 7
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 2nd, 2008, 02:44 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,198 Re: Is non-biased ESL possible?
I'm not saying ESL should be taught in a manner that divorces one's own culture, what I've been thinking about is if culture can be separated from basic ESL acquistion to help learners have one...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 27th, 2008, 06:09 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 4,287 Re: Math through English
You could easily do a game I call Number Olympics, where you're running 4 different games at the same time. Basically, you give the students an English math problem and say "GO!" Once they figure...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 26th, 2008, 02:44 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,573 Re: Childrens lined writing books
Are you set on 'notebooks'?
Writing Worksheet (http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/files/worksheet8.html)
OR
Super Teacher Worksheets - Handwriting / Printing Worksheets...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 25th, 2008, 09:09 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,613 Re: New Teacher
Mirwin,
The great thing about the ESL community is that there is a lot of good material out on the web, you just need to know where to find it.
For example, one of the best FREE sites teachers'...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 24th, 2008, 10:17 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 4,198 Is non-biased ESL possible?
I understand it's not fair for an ESL teacher to disregard their own culture when teaching but do you think a non-biased ESL is possible? Do you think a universal ESL can be created that doesn't...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 23rd, 2008, 09:18 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,256 British vs. American ESL English?
While the title sounds like a competition, I do not mean this thread to be. I was curious to see what type of ESL English is taught where you work?
I know the English taught in Japan's public...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 17th, 2008, 06:30 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,781 Re: Game or song to teach "ing"
If you are teaching kindergarten present continuous forms, I'm guessing you aren't teaching ESL but rather English as a L1 language? (first language)
Anyways, I would think the easiest and funnest...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 16th, 2008, 08:50 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 39,781 Re: Game or song to teach "ing"
The two most widely 'ing' grammar is in the following two sentences:
1. PlayING basketball is fun. (gerund)
2. I am playING basketball. (present continuous)
Which one you talking about about?
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 12th, 2008, 12:11 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,659 Re: Japan - New Sunshine users!
I don't use NS textbooks. I'm just trying to link all of Japan's public JHS English textbooks together for everyone to use. While I have my own opinion of which textbook are less suckier, I'm not...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 11th, 2008, 11:14 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,659 Re: Japan - New Sunshine users!
Basically, I need the example sentences of all the grammar points in the NS textbooks. I am in the process of building a page for these sentences. These sentences will be hyperlinked to the webpage...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 11th, 2008, 09:43 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,659 Re: Japan - New Sunshine users!
LOL! No copyright violation...I think. I don't want anything from the textbook except for some grammar information and where the grammar points are located. I am building a cool invisible...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 11th, 2008, 08:57 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,659 Japan - New Sunshine users!
This thread is specific to teachers in Japan using New Sunshine English textbooks.
I am in the process of building a new area on my website that will encompass these textbooks but am trying to build...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 9th, 2008, 06:37 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 6,346 Re: present perfect continuous
Here are a couple of games that might jog your ideas. The worksheets has been set up for Japanese students but you could easily change it to your L1 language.
present perfect - JHS Grammar Verb...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 6th, 2008, 01:14 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,037 ESL English basics
I don't mean to confuse anyone by the topic but I was wanting to start a conversation about the 4 parts of learning when approaching learning English on the basic level.
Within the next 3 years,...
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