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leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

Well, here's a method for getting ideas for what to teach. It's a basic model!

You create a sort of matrix (see example - http://www.geocities.com/daves_esl/Topics-Grammar.htm) between "topics" (x axis) and "grammar points" (y axis)

In each cell, think of an english phrase suitable (so, for example, Health vs. Modals of obligation could be "You shouldn't smoke").

From these phrases, activities can be born. "You shouldn't smoke" could be part of a task listing the ways to remain healthy, followed perhaps by a patient/doctor roleplay...). You get the idea...

From 7 words we now have a lot of potential activities!

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I, like you Leeroy me thinks, get all my best ideas looking at/for the bottom of the glass Wink

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

Indeed.

Here's another one, a cross reference of grammar points and their location in every coursebook... magic. Idea

www.musicalenglishlessons.com/cc-tenses.htm

Cheers.

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

Well, just Headway really, now I've actually read it... Rolling Eyes

good idea in theory though.

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

Well.... Dyak, do you have a stash of textbooks or what? I just couldn't be bothered with a) the expense and b) the luggage of buying my own sets of books. And they change editions like there's no tomorrow.

One or two books are worth a purchase but there is no way on earth I am going out to buy my own personal copies of Headway. Wink

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

Apparently there is a big resentment in IH London with regard to Liz and John Soars. The first editions of headway were massive plagiarisations (is that a word?) of their (then) DELTA students' coursework. But Liz and John passed it off as their own stuff...

To think! St. John and St.Liz, nothing but no-good scoundrels!

Smile

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

Ok, so this is probably a lot more useful than the 'Headway cross referencing system'... Wink

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

Hehe...

More links, useful or otherwise.

http://www.esldesk.com/esl-links/

Cool

dreadnought · Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Posts: 82 Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

[quote]Apparently there is a big resentment in IH London with regard to Liz and John Soars. The first editions of headway were massive plagiarisations (is that a word?) of their (then) DELTA students' coursework. But Liz and John passed it off as their own stuff...

To think! St. John and St.Liz, nothing but no-good scoundrels!
[quote]

I saw them both at a DoS conference party at IH London. She was absolutely hammered, and it was all poor John could do to keep her standing. Me and a few of the other guys wondered whether it was worth cracking onto her, just so we could go back to our classes, pick up the book and say, 'you know the author of this book, kids? I've got a funny story about her...'

But we didn't.