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I finally persuaded my Korean boss to invest in an overhead projector which he bought from an online auction. Dunno what you think, but laptop beamers and projectors take a long time to set up and for me, you just can�t beat yer old OHP. Here are the advantages:

Quick & Easy - just transfer your oft used stuff onto transparencies, stick them in a folder and bob�s your uncle.

Gets students heads up out of their books, feels like you are communicating to real people when they look at you!

Why not stick up a Larson cartoon to suggest the topic for a lesson?

Mimic your old high school teacher by using the clever hide and reveal method! Drop-downs on powerpoint? Fuggedabouttit!!

Get your students to come up and contribute to the display with those special little pens.

Good section divider in your lesson when you snap that light off!

If you�ve got a very nice boss, he/she might even buy you a roll-down paper screen so you don�t have to project on to the whiteboard.

Ace for correcting writing!

Your students have endless fun by making hand puppets when you�re out of the room!!

[Horangi Munshin]

One hagwon I worked at had them in every room. Very handy! You can also flick the light on and off to get their attention, or give them seizures.

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Do you have a guillotine?

[BS.Dos.]

I suppose that if all you've got is a whiteboard/blackboard, then an OHP is better than nothing, but I'll keep my 8ft projector display with surround sound speakers etc. Its ace. Watched Blade Runner on it a few weeks back. It was like being at an Imax.

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yeah, yeah but can you make hand puppets?

[egrog1717]

Got em in every room at my PS... (And we're being housed in temp-buildings, lol)... I prefer to use the hookup to the flatscreen TV though so that I don't get blinded while trying to write things on the board...
(okay, now I'm just bragging, lol )

[BS.Dos.]

Yes I can, if I switch the projector on but leave the PC off I can do shawdow-puppet stuff, not that I can though mind you. I'll look into it though as it's another useful addition to a teachers 'clown' r'epertoire.

I can also make animals out of ballons (actually, that should read animal. I never perfected the rabbits ears.) This is a must do lesson for any teacher. Pre-teach vocab (twist, pull, tie, blow, pump, gently, burst etc) then fire up a youtube or expert village presentation (Doh! OHP. Never mind) for a listening/visual exercise/demo etc, then hand out the ballons and wait for the screams and bursting of ballons. Kyobo sells the ballons, but they're not the proper professional ones. I picked mine up off ebay. Small outlay, but worth it. You may be able to find them elsewhere.

Can't say it was the most rewarding English lesson for the students (MS girls), but as it appeals to a range of learning styles (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic etc) it even gets the quiet students involved as they'll all want to know how to do it and they'll bombard you with questions on the various bends, twists and how to's etc. Nice thing to do as a post test lesson. Also a useful thing to know for when you're entertaining your own kids, nieces, nephews etc.

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cool.