Forum: Teaching ESL 
Jun 23rd, 2008, 04:00 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 22nd, 2008, 12:45 am
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Views: 6,025  Re: dealing with swear words
Yes, I agree. Probably too young for swear words in any language. I probably wouldn't even have admitted that I knew what it meant as by refusing to translate it you may have aroused their curiosity...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 21st, 2008, 12:55 am
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Views: 19,035 Re: First Day Of New Class
For the first lesson I usually use a sheet with 16 photos of famous people on it. I get the student(s) to write the names of the people and then from that I can ask the same question 16 times -...
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Forum: English Questions
Jun 9th, 2008, 04:14 am
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Views: 8,372 Re: Another infinitive question
Hi there,
I'm afraid I can't help with the grades thing, but I can explain a couple of the infinitives used in your examples.
"I use a computer to play games." - this is an example of the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jun 8th, 2008, 05:16 am
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Views: 13,845 celta interview
Hi everyone,
This post is on behalf of a friend who is having trouble with the internet, hence the reason I'm doing it.
She's about to have a Celta interview by phone and would like to know if...
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Forum: General Chat
Jun 5th, 2008, 03:45 pm
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Views: 3,861 Re: What's your gas price?
same as michèle here in sardinia - touching 1.50 euros a litre, which is 2.32 dollars a litre. in gallons, that's around 9 dollars.
the protests are taking place here too. it's getting to the stage...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 30th, 2008, 04:39 am
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Views: 4,815 Re: Something of a Problem Student
A problem indeed.
Someone once advised me to give the problem student a clearly defined assistant role during activities, eg in a vocab game she is the one who checks the others are following the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 30th, 2008, 04:33 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 28th, 2008, 10:27 am
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Views: 3,675 Re: America vs. US?
Sounds like your doctor has other issues, Eric!
For what it's worth, I'm English and say 'America' when I mean The USA. Otherwise I use South America, Central America or Canada to refer to the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 26th, 2008, 08:55 am
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Views: 7,442 Re: How many real hours can you teach a day?
I teach 9 hours on a Monday, then 10.5, 8, 9 and 8.5. It's a lot and I feel knackered at the end of the day. However, I jealously guard my weekends and have always refused to do anything other than...
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Forum: English Questions
May 23rd, 2008, 09:16 am
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Views: 74,620 Re: Plural of "Equipment" is...?
It's news to me too.
I've never used equipment in the plural form, and several sporting equipments sounds horrible.
I think a variety of equipment probably best conveys the idea of plural in this...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 17th, 2008, 12:14 am
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Views: 19,506 Re: one on one with a seven year old
We listen to The Wiggles a lot. The songs are fun and the kids love it - especially my daughter and she's only 2!
Here's the link to their site:
The Wiggles (http://www.thewiggles.com.au/)
Or you...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 16th, 2008, 02:59 am
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Views: 19,506 Re: one on one with a seven year old
Don't mention it. I'm delighted that it went well.
That's why this site is so great - I've been given so many ideas by the members. It's a great example of a community pooling ideas to improve our...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 15th, 2008, 02:48 pm
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Views: 19,229 Re: Are examinations a true test of knowledge?
really annoyed. I don't think exams are a fair reflection of ones ability - maybe I wasn't clear in my previous post.
I work in Italy, and here the student is expected to regurgitate facts and ideas...
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Forum: English Questions
May 15th, 2008, 11:08 am
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Views: 4,107 Re: Correct usage
There's not much context to go on, but I'd say it depends on what you want to say.
1. You could have multiple presentations on a single scholarship - scholarship presentations
2. a single...
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Forum: English Questions
May 15th, 2008, 11:05 am
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Views: 12,232 Re: How many continents are there?
Try this out. It's more complicated than I had previously thought:
The seven-continent model is usually taught in Western Europe, Northern Europe, Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, China and most...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 15th, 2008, 09:35 am
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Replies: 19
Views: 19,229 Re: Are examinations a true test of knowledge?
I don't think so.
A student who understands how the exam is structured and what the examiner is looking for will almost always score better than a student of a reasonably higher level without the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 11th, 2008, 03:02 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 19,506 Re: one on one with a seven year old
How about cutting pictures out of a magazine and letting her tell you a story, using them to illustrate it. This will give her the chance to express herself and use her fantasy \ imagination. If...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 8th, 2008, 02:35 am
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Views: 11,962 Re: Is 'passive voice' okay in British English?
I didn't realize (or have never noticed) the passive was frowned upon in The States (I'm English). It's something I'd never considered, but thinking about it now I'm sure that we use the passive...
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Forum: English Questions
May 7th, 2008, 04:11 pm
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Forum: English Questions
May 7th, 2008, 04:09 pm
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Views: 3,895 Re: having trouble with... :)
I had trouble (in) finding.
I think, and I could be wrong, that to have trouble takes 'in' as a collocation, and therefore any verb after it would be the -ing form.
Hope that helps.
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 6th, 2008, 11:46 am
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Views: 10,471 Re: STUDENTS GET BORED
give them freer activities to do for example, design a film poster for a film they've made up, make a tourist poster for their city, make a short tourist ad and film it. Anything a little different...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2008, 11:42 am
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Views: 15,757 Re: The books every TESOL teacher should have?
Yes, it certainly has a lot of support material. Something that the Headway series is certainly lacking.
BTW, have you been to the OUP website, there are also some online activities, both for the EF...
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Forum: General Chat
May 6th, 2008, 08:35 am
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Forum: General Chat
May 6th, 2008, 12:27 am
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Views: 36,324  Is anyone familiar with the Helen Doron schools?
Hi everyone,
I've been looking at the Helen Doron children's schools and was curious to hear from anyone with first hand experience, either as one of their trained teachers, a parent of a pupil or...
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