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- Thu Jan 19, 2017 10:40 pm
- Forum: Elementary Education
- Topic: New student in Elementary classroom.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 19971
I have never found a book that is completely right for my students. Take pictures or let the students take pictures of everything in the classroom, hall, bathroom, gym etc. Have the students name them and drill the new student. Then add questions, small sentences, stories. People often want full sen...
- Sun Feb 28, 2016 11:07 pm
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Help with conversation classes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 14629
I imagine they will speak enough English to tell you what they want and need. I always found they were interested in what other people thought about them. I'm sure you can find news items on the medical situation in India written by journalists from other countries. Then you can discuss the views an...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:35 pm
- Forum: Secondary School Education
- Topic: ESL/ELT activities which are effective with boys, esp ES/MS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11793
Star Wars games. Just adapt games you know with Star Wars characters and places. We made a game with names of planets like Dagoba spread out on the floor. They got to move to another planet on a signal but couldn't have more than two on a planet so essentially like musical chairs, taking out a plane...
- Wed Nov 04, 2015 6:50 pm
- Forum: Software
- Topic: Tracking topics covered in lessons
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11631
- Tue Oct 27, 2015 10:10 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Using technical blueprints in an ESL class
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13151
There is a course at study.com on Technical English. You can access the lessons free for five days. It should give you some ideas of what to cover. There is also a YouTube video in grammar for Technical English. The courses would go too fast for people just learning English but you could use them as...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:32 pm
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Teaching Shy ESL Students
- Replies: 7
- Views: 26454
Sounds ideal then. I used to make sure I structured the pairs activities so they had to explain something to each other - the instruction for a game, the way to a certain store, a recipe, depending on the theme for the lesson. If she is explaining in her own language then have her partner coach her ...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 10:25 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Teaching Shy ESL Students
- Replies: 7
- Views: 26454
Go easy on her. Shy people often clam up when pressured. Does she speak a lot in her own language? No? Then she won't speak much in English. If she has to explain things to her partner she might speak a bit more so questionnaires and asking her to explain games or procedures such as how to do someth...
- Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:24 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: ROLE PLAYS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11224
- Tue Dec 30, 2014 3:30 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Personal name expansion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16748
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 10:07 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: Business English One-to-One... any tips?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22153
- Sun Oct 26, 2014 12:12 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Fluency activities
- Replies: 1
- Views: 9974
- Thu Oct 16, 2014 6:23 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: COLLOCATION BOARD GAME
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10986
You could write the answers and on the board and then cover them up. I used to write the answers in white wax from a candle so the students couldn't see them on a piece of white paper. Then you take a strong paint or ink and paint over the answers one by one and it seems like magic to younger studen...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:31 am
- Forum: Business English
- Topic: The different English accents
- Replies: 4
- Views: 16782
I used to invite people to my class to give a small talk about their business. As they talked, I would summarize it on the board behind them with key words and phrases and any new vocabulary the speaker brought up. The speakers were all from different countries and had a variety of English accents. ...
- Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:12 pm
- Forum: Elementary Education
- Topic: Children's Story that shows a Creative Solution?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11852
- Mon Oct 06, 2014 11:46 am
- Forum: English for Specific Purposes
- Topic: Flipping your class to free up some quality teaching time
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11926