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by Syl
Fri Feb 27, 2015 10:50 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: ESL Video Newscasts with an accompanying Korean and English
Replies: 1
Views: 2977

This is absolutely amazing! Many people come to the forums to publish and sell materials, with profit making purposes. This amazing staff is simply offering this awesome material for free. Way to go, I am very grateful and appreciate your kindness. The videos are excellent and very useful. Thank you...
by Syl
Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:40 pm
Forum: Computer Assisted Language Learning
Topic: Exposing students to English during the after school hours
Replies: 0
Views: 3601

Exposing students to English during the after school hours

This presentation was submitted to the Ministry of Education in my country. The site I presented is strictly for educational purposes and non-commercial use or financial gains. Syl's English Corner http://ginnegar.0catch.com My site was created based upon what was done in class, what children like t...
by Syl
Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:25 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Jolly Grammar?
Replies: 1
Views: 3083

I've looked around for a while, most of the materials were about Phonics, this is a clip I found on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpp2hAJQLpE


Syl




Syl's English Corner - Learn English and Have Fun
http://www.ginnegar.0catch.com
by Syl
Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:15 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Playway 2nd Edition... like or dislike?
Replies: 2
Views: 2622

Well, taking into consideration the children's ages as well as their reaction to the different activities, I would say it is cute, and it doesn't insult their intelligence as you say. I've been teaching young children who react exactly the same to similar activities, and who get excited to anything ...
by Syl
Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:56 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Getting in touch with English after school
Replies: 5
Views: 6783

Hello, everyone!

More than one year has passed, and everything is going great. Wishing all my colleagues a great and Happy Easter tomorrow.



Syl


Syl's English Corner - Learn English and have Fun
http://www.ginnegar.0catch.com
by Syl
Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:39 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Teaching in Turkey - bad experiences
Replies: 7
Views: 14047

Hi Linda I certainly agree to a kind of poll, which would be fair at the same time, but on the other hand also subject to personal points of view. What I don't agree is generalizing it here, even if I most empathize with you. I'm in touch with many colleagues from Turkey, not foreign teachers but lo...
by Syl
Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:26 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: New "We Are The World" Cloze Activity
Replies: 1
Views: 5218

First of all, thank you again for sharing another nice activity, I've already downloaded it from your site. I love teaching through songs, as you probably remember, Zachary. My rational is written here: http://forums.eslcafe.com/teacher/viewtopic.php?t=8833 and songs have proved a great tool in our ...
by Syl
Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:06 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Global issues activity and request for ideas
Replies: 3
Views: 4465

Great! I'm happy I could help:)
by Syl
Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:36 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Global issues activity and request for ideas
Replies: 3
Views: 4465

Zachary, I was starting to prepare a long list for you, then I preferred to do some search and found an excellent site, look at this:

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/speec ... -kids.html

By the way, both activities you published here are excellent, keep up the good work.

Syl
by Syl
Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:25 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: 2 activities about the Haiti earthquake
Replies: 3
Views: 4446

Hi, Zachary

I haven't replied to you, thanking you for the nice words... that's too bad :D

What I want to say is that I have looked all your last posts, and activities, they are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing!
by Syl
Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:19 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: jokes to help teaching. Difference Between a joke and prank
Replies: 1
Views: 7006

Very useful, Davidash. Well explained and indeed, jokes are one of the best tools when teaching a language. Thank you!
by Syl
Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:13 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Double Celebration For Kids
Replies: 1
Views: 1905

I visited the site, thank you for sharing, simgarie!
by Syl
Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:35 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: 2 activities about the Haiti earthquake
Replies: 3
Views: 4446

Dear Zachary, When reading your post I immediately paid a visit to your site, because I am always looking for ideas.. I don't teach at school anymore after an early retirement, and my present activity is teaching at home, from small kids to adults. I do tutoring by helping students with their tasks ...
by Syl
Wed Jan 27, 2010 8:01 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Getting in touch with English after school
Replies: 5
Views: 6783

I haven't been here for a while, and I am bringing this up for two reasons: to get our colleagues to visit Jason's site, which is really wonderful and very useful, and to remind of mine: completely different in its formatting and goals, and I guess that the combination of both is ideal for teachers ...
by Syl
Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:55 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Good websites for teaching methods etc?
Replies: 7
Views: 6484

Jason's site

Why don't you try Jason's site? one of the best I have ever met, very useful with tons of ideas.

http://www.englishraven.com