Forum: Teaching ESL 
Nov 26th, 2007, 07:45 pm
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Views: 5,570  Re: How do you feel when you take on a new class?
It'a actually better to be a little nervous than not nervous at all. It's your body's way of increasing adrenaline (why you feel jumpy) and making sure you concentrate fully on the task at hand.
Old...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 22nd, 2007, 07:42 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 18,636 Re: Movies, Cartoon suggestions?
Sometimes it's fun to show series or cartoons with no words and then get the students to write down or relate the story afterwards. Mr Bean or Pink Panther are suitable for this.
Otherwise,...
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Forum: English Questions
Nov 21st, 2007, 07:31 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 21st, 2007, 07:30 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 6,368 Re: How to generate discussions in class
They may be more comfortable with a format where someone from each group 'presents' their ideas to the whole class.
Why exactly do you wish to have whole class discussions? What would be the...
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Forum: English Questions
Oct 24th, 2007, 08:11 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,950 appreciate question
1 I would appreciate it if...
2 I would appreciate if...
I know 1 is correct, but is 2 also correct or is it an error?:confused:
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 23rd, 2007, 07:44 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 75,787 Re: make or do a joke
Good point. It shows how tricky language can be.
Generally, 'make a joke' is correct.
From what I can tell, 'did a joke' means 'performed a joke' (Seinfeld is a stand-up comedian.)
A normal guy...
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 23rd, 2007, 07:36 pm
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Replies: 14
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 23rd, 2007, 07:30 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,003 Re: dictation
It's better to use a CD for dictation rather than speak out the sentences. The goal is not to get them used to your voice, but spoken English in general.
Good luck
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 11th, 2007, 10:27 pm
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 11th, 2007, 08:18 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,348 Re: programming languages
Flash is useful for quizzes and such. My roadtogrammar.com site is done in flash. And you can get a one month full trial of flash from adobe.com
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 9th, 2007, 03:19 am
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 7th, 2007, 08:54 pm
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Forum: General Chat
Sep 6th, 2007, 08:05 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 6,228 Learning solo is better than classroom learning?
I was looking at this site:
effortless english | Home (http://www.effortlessenglishclub.com/)
The Effortless English Blog (http://www.effortlessacquisition.blogspot.com/)
It seems like the guy is...
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Forum: General Chat
Aug 29th, 2007, 10:59 pm
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Replies: 5
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 9th, 2007, 08:15 pm
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 8th, 2007, 08:29 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,736 Re: Blogs
Yahoo Answers is a great social network site. I've used it with my students and they love it.
When we do discussion questions in class, for example, I get them to post the questions on YA, and we...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 6th, 2007, 07:42 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,736 Re: Blogs
Looks good so far. I love the simpsonizer and the clustrmaps plugin.
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 31st, 2007, 08:54 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 29th, 2007, 07:55 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 6,412 Re: Word origins website?
http://www.etymonline.com/ is the best one I've found, but I've long been looking for something more comprehensive.
Some of the dictionaries give short notes on word origins.
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jul 26th, 2007, 08:04 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 4,777 Re: Do we seminars for ESL teachers in Asia?
There are conferences in Malaysia and Singapore. The MICELT conference (tho I'm thinking they may have changed the name) takes place every two years here. I'm very sure that there are conferences in...
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 24th, 2007, 08:36 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,939 Re: Summer courses
Actually, I did, when I was 10, but then I lived out in the burbs. Just seems such a shame if they have nowhere to go.
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 23rd, 2007, 07:59 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,939 Re: Summer courses
Can't kids keep themselves entertained for a while?
After all, they aren't kids for long.:p
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 22nd, 2007, 07:55 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,939 Re: Summer courses
The kids will be in a different frame of mind when they need to use English all day long instead of just one hour during English class. You can make it fun with games and DVDs and so on.
But, yeah,...
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 18th, 2007, 08:35 pm
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Replies: 8
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Forum: General Chat
Jul 18th, 2007, 08:30 pm
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