Forum: General Chat 
Mar 6th, 2008, 12:42 am
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Views: 8,008  Re: Interesting facts about graduation
Even after living in Japan for almost 5 years, I still don't quite know how to handle the national anthem being sung at graduation. For all those that don't know, Japan's national anthem is pretty...
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Forum: General Chat
Mar 5th, 2008, 05:10 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 8,008 Interesting facts about graduation
In Japan, JHS students are just graduating. When the students graduate, red & white vertical striped cloth is hung around the edges of the gym. I was told today that the 'red' represents birth and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 28th, 2008, 02:07 am
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Replies: 11
Views: 6,408 Re: Do you team teach?
I've never heard of the language teacher teaching other subjects but sounds pretty cool!
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 24th, 2008, 11:21 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 3,288 Where is the fine line?
Sometimes, ESL classrooms have two teachers working side-by-side each other. This is often referred to as 'team teaching'.
Even after almost 5 years of working in this field, I still have a hard...
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Forum: English Questions
Feb 20th, 2008, 11:26 pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 15,641 Re: Hire vs Rent
Corrent me if I'm wrong, but doesn't 'hire a car' actually mean 'rent a car' by British English standards?
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Feb 20th, 2008, 06:48 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 17th, 2008, 11:45 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 15,420 Re: past tense--absolute beginners
In my personal opinion, I think that real life examples would be better and easier to understand than scripture examples. Yeah, your audience might understand that Jesus multiplied fish and loaves...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 15th, 2008, 05:12 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 10th, 2008, 04:10 am
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Views: 10,356 Re: English through communicative activities
try...fix...try again.
A PERFECT teacher doesn't exist. However, good teachers are always trying new things in the classroom if they think it will help their students learn but the new things don't...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 7th, 2008, 11:08 pm
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Views: 2,991 Re: Hard time teaching "get"
I would suggest explaining 'get' has many meanings and to remember this verb in particular because if you should ever 'get' stuck looking for a verb, 'get' will probably work....and then move...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 7th, 2008, 03:14 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,029 Re: Would you apologize to your students?
I'm afraid to even ask this question...
What should you do when you are teaching from an English textbook that contains many grammar points that you firmly don't agree with? What do you do? Do you...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 3rd, 2008, 07:18 pm
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Replies: 23
Views: 13,029 Re: Would you apologize to your students?
I think admitting mistakes show maturity. Nobody is perfect. The only difference between the teacher and student is the teacher already know the information being taught. However, both parties are...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 30th, 2008, 06:55 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 13,737 Re: EFL one-to-one young learner ideas
I hate to push my site in such a blatant manner but there are about 100 elementary school English games on it and they are geared at teaching English.
Yes, they are geared for Japanese students but...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 30th, 2008, 01:05 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 44,179 Re: Ideas for Free-Talking Topics
This game works wonders with my kids and I set it up to include different levels of English.
JHS Textbook Game GuessWho (http://jhsenglipediaproject.com/jhs_textbook_game_guesswho.aspx)
Of course,...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 29th, 2008, 09:44 pm
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Replies: 1
Views: 9,063 Re: Key word transformation
Both are correct, but I believe the second sentence would be better if the word 'that' was removed:
"I remember we studied this unit last year."
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 26th, 2008, 07:46 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,485 Re: terms for how it snows
From where I'm from, 'black ice' actually has a different meaning. It's when a road looks like cement or concrete, when in reality, it's actually a thin layer of ice. Looks like cement but actually...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jan 25th, 2008, 01:08 am
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Replies: 44
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 23rd, 2008, 07:19 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 15,264 Re: Current grammar point?
I think Mark and Kisito both made really great points. If I were to simply all the great information here in this thread, it would simplified down to:
1. Links
2. Mnemonics
Linking the each lesson...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 22nd, 2008, 10:01 pm
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 22nd, 2008, 09:51 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 15,264 Re: Current grammar point?
I think you made a great point there, Mark. There is not only a difference in how to teach native speakers of English, but there is a difference in the ESL community also. I would almost argue that...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 21st, 2008, 07:04 pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 15,264 Re: Current grammar point?
I'm not an expert of the English language, nor do I pretend to know which English grammar should be taught at what age. That being said, when red flags go up in my mind, something is usually not...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 21st, 2008, 02:13 am
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Views: 15,264 |
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 18th, 2008, 03:17 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 17th, 2008, 08:16 am
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Views: 7,827 Re: The singing boy is my brother?
Switching the order of the 'ing' word and the noun is usually okay but at such basic grammar levels, I would argue don't start the students down a path that doesn't have more regularity.
Recently,...
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 16th, 2008, 11:10 pm
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Views: 16,299 Re: 'He has got well.' - OK?
I would say it like:
He got better.
He has gotten better.
He fore surz gotten hiz snizzle me nizzle.
I think the third one is the only one that grammatically correct.
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