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jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

Have you had some of these? I have a few of them now. Some have gone on a month. They say review the book. Sometimes that is useless. It seems like not a bad place to work but the organization is nonexistent. They say tell us 2 weeks before when you finish a book. They don't know what the following one is.

Without good materials this is a headache. I bring in stuff the students have already done. I bring in puzzles, many of which I make myself, which many students like, but it isn't good enough. I need decent materials! They do this thing, review! And it is crap.

Disorganization is a pain.

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Freezer Burn · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Busan

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html

there is everything on here, lesson plans, print outs, games

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslplans.html

make your own wordsearch

http://www.eslcity.com/english/

good site for beginners

http://www.eslflow.com/index.html

deessell · Joined: 08 Jun 2005

Choose a theme ie. family, entertainment, time, or a grammar point and work around these. You're a teacher, work it out.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

My last haggie job had a similar problem. I had to buy my own books to use as resources as I had no access to a computer, so on-line resources were non existant.

I just got copies of some books that I used in the past, usually the workbooks from different series and then made copies each day for the students. It's hard to get it all coordinatied and focused, but it's better than not having anything. It was a bit expensive, but the cost was worth having materials to work with.

I tried to find books and things that they hadn't used before, so it would be more interesting to them.

These are some things I have used:
workbooks from

Finding Out - lots of puzzles and crosswords to keep them busy.

American English Today - workbooks have some interesting exercises.

English Time workbooks - If you aren't using the text in class, great for review of basic vocabulary and grammar.

Up and Away - both the grammar series and the phonics series.
This series can be a bit boring and the explanations in the grammar books are a bit technical, but it was helpful to have as an added resource.

Books of puzzles and games for ESL students - if you can find them.
If you can get to a Kim an Johnson's or an English Plus store, you should be able to find all the resources you need.

Like I said, it��s a bit expensive - perhaps your school will re-imburse you.
Mine didn't, but it was still better to spend some money and have some resources than to be struggling without.

Hope this helps.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

The thing is, with 6 or 7 classes a day, and about half of them without decent materials, or with the book already finished and told to review (arghh), I find it hard to make a decent lesson. Photocopies get little respect. They get tossed on the floor. I believe in a decent book/workbook. It does make the job easier.

some waygug-in · Joined: 25 Jan 2003

What's up with this site? All my messages are coming out garbled with things underlined and bits of computer language mixed in?

Sorry, I hope you can make sense of this.

I hear you. Sometimes there is no easy answer. I found I had to have lots of games and maybe do worksheets every second day or something.

Have lots of crosswords, word searches and logic puzzles as part of the worksheets.

Also, lots of music.... as in listening exercises using pop songs that the students are interested in.

<>Avril Lavigne</a>', N sync, or whoever is popular these days.

Games like "Banana" are good about once every 2 weeks or so.
I think it may also be called "hot seat". One person sits up front and you write bananas (or some other word) on the board. The person can only answer "bananas" to any question. Other students have to ask questions and try to make the person smile. If they can't think of any questions, you may have to write a few on the board to keep things going. Change the word often to keep things interesting.

Ex: What's your nose like? Bananas
What's your name? etc.

You need lots of games that are different and that get them using different vocabulary.

My kids liked monopoly, but it's expensive. They liked my homemade version of "sorry" as well as some other I made (based on crazy 8's) You can use any set of picture cards to play games like:

Pictionary, 20 questions, etc.

Spelling races can be good once in a while, but not too often.

Make a sentence games can be OK, but don't give them too many words at once or they get discouraged.

Write up about 5 sentences in large print.
Make enough copies for 2 or more teams (depending on class size)
Cut up each copy so that they are one word per piece of paper.
Each team gets a complete set of words (I used <a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=1&k=paper%20cups" onmouseover="window.status='<a href="http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=1&k=paper%20cups" onmouseover="window.status='paper cups'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">paper cups</a>'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true;">paper cups</a> for containers)
You write a target sentence on the board, and they have to race each other to make it. If they are higher level, you can just read out a sentence.

Anyway, I hope this helps.

Good luck