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Wha'z up? Another suggestion would be to watch a lot of game shows since ESL/EFL instructors are now starting to be game show hosts and entertainers instead of ESL/EFL instructors. The only problem is you earn A hell of a lot more money as a game show host rather than an ESL/EFL instructor. Chow for...

Wha'z up? I don't know, depends how far your willing to go. I mean I suppose you could try to bring in some pieces of machinery and have them try to count them as machines. All joking aside, you never specified how detailed you had to go into count and non-count nouns. The only thing you could do is...

Wha'z up? I guess you can show your student real objects of things we count and things we don't count. For non-count you might bring in some sugar, salt, or just money. You can ask your student something like, "How can we count this sugar or salt? With money, you can explain we don't acutally count ...

Wha'z up? In response to "teaching grammar exclusively isn't useful." I had a student from Puerto Rico who lived in the States for something like 20 years. I was presenting explicit grammar rules with WH questions and the verb to be. The specific point was explaining that the verb to be has to immed...

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It might be helpful if you gave more examples of your situation, examples of the exercises perhaps.
Chow for Now,
Examples Would Be Helpful In Motown Gary B.

Wha'z up? In all due respect to the last two comments I have to say bull! Teaching styles have gone in trends and the communicative approach dominated language teaching for a long time and still does. It won't surprise me if some jokers doing more research will come out and say that according to our...

Wha'z up? No Larry, perhaps I didn't make myself clear. What I meant was, yea, of course you here things like, "Whata ya doin' today?" This is probably more natural for native speakers as opposed to, "What are you doing today?" You're exactly right, the natural speech is what English instructors sho...

Wha'z up? One reason why Wolfstone may get frustrated when talking to native speakers is because we don't say what we are supposed to say. In many cases we don't say, "What are you going to do today?" We say, "Whach ya doin' today? This is just the tip of the iceberg. A second point is many students...

Wha'z up? Larry L. makes an excellent point. Maybe we need to teach our students how to study since many of them may not have been students in a long time and some never have been students. Maybe the key is teaching them studying skills as well as the language skills we're trying to teach them. Dduc...

Wha'z up? I agree and disagee with Strider. As English instructors, I think it's beneficial to use both communicative approaches and to teach explicit grammar. I believe we need to teach more grammar however. It seems to me there has been to much focus on the communicative approach. As a result, the...

Wha'z up? What I don't like about this message board is the pain in the ass it is to navigate. Sure, after you get used to it no problem, but what's the point? As Larry L. wrote, there aren't too many responses and messages as there were with the old system. I mean we all have to get used to change,...

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I don't know about anyone else, but I think this new message board sucks!
Very Dissappointed With This Message Board From Motown Gary B.