Forum: English Questions 
Jan 16th, 2008, 08:08 am
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 15th, 2008, 07:21 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 15th, 2008, 07:14 pm
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Jan 10th, 2008, 05:35 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 10th, 2008, 07:35 am
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Views: 3,133  Restrictive vs. dependent
Can someone define the difference to me? I found some information on it but I'm still confused.
Is a 'restrictive relative pronoun' the same as a 'dependent relative pronoun'?
HELP!!! I'm going...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 10th, 2008, 07:24 am
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Views: 5,236 Re: Adult EFL Class (Chess Class)
You could tweak the chess rules a little bit.
1. You could have different level of questions (1-10).
2. The student gets to pick the question based upon which chess piece they want to move (pawns =...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 9th, 2008, 06:51 pm
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Forum: English Questions
Jan 9th, 2008, 12:54 am
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Views: 5,679 that / which / who
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is how I see using relative clauses. Sentences that start with nouns that aren't people, you can use 'that/which' interchangably, but when the noun is a person, you...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 8th, 2008, 10:04 pm
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Views: 72,188 Re: What age group do you prefer?
I thought for a long time that Japan spent too much time holding and focusing on the past and not on the future. However, I was wrong. You can see this isn't true when you look at China's progress,...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 8th, 2008, 07:44 pm
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Views: 72,188 Re: What age group do you prefer?
I wouldn't say that Niigata English education is frowned on here in Niigata. I would say the English education level is low here in Niigata. Why? There are multiple reasons that it could be but I...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 7th, 2008, 08:54 pm
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Views: 15,264 Current grammar point?
What grammar points are you currently teaching?
There are a handful of people surfing these forums who spend their free time building websites with a ton of free resources for teachers like you and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 7th, 2008, 08:41 pm
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Replies: 47
Views: 72,188 Re: What age group do you prefer?
I'm currently up here in Niigata. To answer your question, I teach in three elem schools and two JHS. With today's English education situation here in Japan, teachers like me usually have much more...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Jan 7th, 2008, 05:52 am
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Forum: General Chat
Jan 3rd, 2008, 09:46 am
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Forum: General Chat
Dec 30th, 2007, 04:55 am
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Views: 3,243 Japanese Textbooks
For those teachers working in Japan, which textbook used in public schools do you like or dislike the most?
For me, I pretty much hate all of the 7 textbook choices but if I had to choose the best...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 30th, 2007, 04:45 am
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Views: 199,961 Re: Riddles - Riddles & Answers ONLY!
anybody have any riddles that are English specific? Maybe, that can be used in class? Some of the previous riddles can be used but I was wondering if there were some more out there?
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
Dec 30th, 2007, 04:42 am
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Views: 3,110 Re: The MC Hammer School of English!
This is hilariously funny! Very unique! However, I said it when MC Hammer first came out with the song and I'll say it again...way too many "I can't touch this!" :)
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 19th, 2007, 11:51 pm
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Views: 4,430 Worst English games of 2007?
I can't think of any game specifically but they usually are those types of games you received from someone else. You thought it was brilliant until you tried it in the classroom and it bombed.
I...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 19th, 2007, 11:36 pm
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 19th, 2007, 11:17 pm
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Views: 9,371 Most popular English games of 2007?
For elementary school, I have 3 games this year that I would classify as hot. For my definition of 'hottest' I employed the 'free time meter'. Meaning, English games I have seen the students...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 13th, 2007, 12:36 am
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Views: 75,157 Re: Christmas Games and Activities?
It's not extremely helpful but here are some ideas, worksheets and links that might help you out.
JHS NonTextbook Holidays Christmas (http://shorten.ws/m1a2)
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 10th, 2007, 11:20 pm
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Views: 29,015 Re: Would you or Could you - politeness
Thanks, Mark! I've been toying with the idea for a while. I figure if people could remain anonomous, they might be more open to share ideas and talk...that's has always been the great thing about...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 10th, 2007, 08:34 pm
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Views: 29,015 Re: Would you or Could you - politeness
Hey Mark,
Speaking of internet, I'm sure you know the answer to this question. There are a handful of great forums for teachers like us, but I have never of a seen one for Japanese teachers. Have...
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Forum: English Questions
Dec 9th, 2007, 03:57 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Dec 6th, 2007, 11:20 pm
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Views: 7,216 Re: How to teach without wild games or activites?
So you have two goals, right?
1. Keep the kids in their seats.
2. You want to focus on speaking and listening, rather than reading and writing.
How about having the kids work in groups, is that...
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