Forum: English Questions 
Apr 20th, 2009, 01:51 am
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Views: 4,684  Any Music Vocabulary Experts?
Hey! I guess it only goes to show that you can never know everything. . . but, well, I've found a hole in my vocabulary: music.
Specifically, I'm wondering if any 'music pros' out there know of...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 18th, 2009, 09:57 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 17,941 Re: Do you make enough money in ESL as a career?
Well, I guess I can agree with lestatantoigne (That's not that easy to type!) that it depends on what you want. But I do think you have to remember that it's a pretty harsh business--the money side...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 17th, 2009, 06:57 am
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Replies: 15
Views: 25,094 An Ice Breaker Every Day?
Hey, guys. . .
I've run up against a problem. I teach a group of adults at eight in the morning and they're pretty tired. I can understand that. In a regular counseling session ("What can I do...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 16th, 2009, 12:14 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 17,941 Re: Do you make enough money in ESL as a career?
Wow, I thought I posted a long response here but it didn't show up. What follows is the shortened version: the company I work for in Germany does pay alright, and there are raises. I don't think...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 16th, 2009, 12:09 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 4,023 Re: tenses
My advice is to use the simple past when you're not sure. It's not always right, but it's the most common form of the past.
For the past perfect ("I had driven a car") we use that when comparing...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 16th, 2009, 11:52 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 2,866 Re: Come to grips with vs Get to grips with
Okay, Majid72: I'll give you the same warning that I give all my students. I learned English in the U.S., in a small town on the East Coast. So, I don't know EVERYTHING about English.
Still, I...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 16th, 2009, 11:41 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,478 Re: Learning Vocabulary
I think it's also important to keep the vocabulary related to a theme. . . it allows a 'free' discussion of a topic that will re-enforce the theme. I did a whole unit on election, vote, elector...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 12th, 2009, 02:10 pm
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Replies: 3
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 11th, 2009, 10:04 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,217 Re: over/on the phone
Hey, Ana:
I'd say the answer is no. I would say they spoke on the phone. But that he told me the bad news over the phone.
My advice is that we use 'on the phone,' normally and 'over the phone'...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 11th, 2009, 09:59 am
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Replies: 3
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 8th, 2009, 09:48 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,880 Re: Integration Overseas. ..
Yeah.
I have the problem now that I talk to my students--the higher level ones, anyway--like friends, but then they vanish after six months or a year and for them I was a 'friendly teacher' but I...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 6th, 2009, 01:13 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 3,880 Integration Overseas. ..
Hey, all!
I'm new to the forum (I'll be posting an introduction, soon) but I wanted to ask about something that's really eating at me:
How do you go about integrating into your 'host...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 6th, 2009, 01:10 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 15,264 Re: Working Overseas...Has it changed you?
I think that I've become more of a fitness person. Not that I like it, but I know that I'm the only American my students know (some of them) and I don't want them to go home and say "my teacher is...
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 5th, 2009, 05:35 am
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Replies: 56
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Forum: General Chat
Apr 5th, 2009, 05:24 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 18,507 Re: How to Better yourself as a teacher?
One of the things that I'm doing--well, I say I am, but I've fallen out of the practice--is to try and learn French.
I studied German--and I live in Germany--and I think that's really helped me to...
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Forum: English Questions
Apr 5th, 2009, 05:17 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,030 Re: off vs leave vs vacation
Another point is that--from my point of view as an American--vacation is what 'normal' people get. "Leave" is what I had in the Army. In the second sentence, the "I have two weeks of leave" sounds...
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