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I would really like to find some songs that use these forms as I am pretty tapped for ideas and activities that do not involve dry fill in the blank worksheets. Please help me inject some life to a rather dry grammar form lesson. Thanks! This forum is great!

Just thought I would follow up on how I decided to handle my discrimination lesson. I made two different handouts that were different but exactly the same in content. One had various word art and graphics which gave those students an advantage. The other paper was not copied well and free from all g...

Did you know that this series is available on-line? For free? If you want an actual copy for yourself then you will be spending some money. There are also courses about teaching as well as a library of teaching practices for ESL. There is one course on the website that is really extensive about teac...

Has anyone ever tried this sort of thing? The general idea is that you are playing a game but some of the teams might be uneven, have different rules or harder questions. Anyway, what you want is to to try to give a real feeling that the game is not fair and that many of the teams have no chance of ...

Thanks sbourque! That could be a very good additional activity on video day. I was thinking that after the students wrote down the dialog, they could then re-write the second half of the dialog to end in a very different way. The completed dialog could then be performed in front of the the class. Th...

Try Glenn Garry Glenn Ross for business situations. The language is a bit colorful but so are the characters and the dialogs. There are just so many brillant actors in this one, how could you go wrong? Al Pacino is the man!

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My students LOVE to watch videos! Who doesn't right? What I am wondering is how I might be able to get more educational value out of video day. I already make a question sheet which reviews grammar points and vocabulary I also use clip art to illustrate new vocab that they need to understand the vid...

I was just wondering if anybody has tried this game with any students. This game sure looks nice and very well made but I am having doubts about just how useful or fun it may be. Any comments from the throngs of lurkers? Jason in Nagano, Japan.