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by yoda
Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:27 pm
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Quick Spelling Test
Replies: 12
Views: 11451

What's interesting is the mistakes they expect you to make: either unstressed vowels where you can't hear the vowel 'properly' or double consonants where again you can't hear the spelling. I did worse than everybody here so far. :oops: Now, how many of you have developed solid strategies for prevent...
by yoda
Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:19 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: List of great web activities & games
Replies: 70
Views: 172708

Another oldy but goody: Lanternfish ESL with a much expanded phonics worksheets and games section.
by yoda
Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:57 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Activty Pack for Easter
Replies: 0
Views: 1767

Activty Pack for Easter

Here is an activity pack for Easter. It contains a card game for playing fish and a bingo game. The theme is a backyard Easter egg hunt. The grammar focus is prepositions of place.
by yoda
Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:24 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Boggle's World has temporarily moved
Replies: 1
Views: 2068

A complete working version of the site can be found at
http://bogglesworldesl.com

Note the added esl between the 'boggles' and the '.com'
by yoda
Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:23 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Boggle's World: Warning
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

by yoda
Fri May 19, 2006 6:51 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Boggle's World has temporarily moved
Replies: 1
Views: 2068

Boggle's World has temporarily moved

You can find the temp site at http://english-adventure.com. That was Chris's old summer camp site which he is using for the time being to serve out worksheets and materials. The fight seems to be going his way, but will take time before the domain will be transferred back. At least it's no longer se...
by yoda
Fri May 19, 2006 6:50 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Boggle's World has temporarily moved.
Replies: 2
Views: 1765

Boggle's World has temporarily moved.

You can find the temp site at http://english-adventure.com. That was Chris's old summer camp site which he is using for the time being to serve out worksheets and materials. The fight seems to be going his way, but will take time before the domain will be transferred back. At least it's no longer se...
by yoda
Fri May 19, 2006 8:42 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Boggle's World: Warning
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

mark, Check your 'whois' records and make sure your domain is locked. That isn't exactly what happened to Chris. It looks like somebody hacked into his registrar account. . . however, if your domain is not 'locked' something similar could easily (much more easily) happen. BTW, his email address is d...
by yoda
Fri May 19, 2006 1:10 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Boggle's World: Warning
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

Hi. Things have still not been resolved. It may be a while.

What activity do you need? If I know then I can search my hard drive or get it from Chris.
by yoda
Thu May 18, 2006 6:35 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Boggle's World: Warning
Replies: 7
Views: 4775

Boggle's World: Warning

Do not go to boggle's world. The Domain name has been fraudulently hijacked. We are fighting to get it back.

A complete version of the site can be found at:

http://bogglesworldesl.com

Note the added 'esl' between the bogglesworld and the .com.
by yoda
Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:30 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Activities Resource..
Replies: 4
Views: 2993

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the links. I found some good activities. But, as an aside, the OP appears to be a spammer. The blog is fake. Or rather, it's an advertisement masquerading as a blog.
by yoda
Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:37 pm
Forum: Business English
Topic: Making Reports
Replies: 0
Views: 1366

Making Reports

Here is a new business ESL role-play for making reports or summaries of corporate indicators such as cost, profit, sales, and revenue . Students are given a graph (a year-end report) and they have to summarize it to other students using language such as increased dramatically, declined slightly, or ...
by yoda
Tue May 31, 2005 11:53 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: i need a giving train directions activiety
Replies: 6
Views: 4020

You could use this Information Gap: Information gap on giving directions by subway Sheet A . Information gap on giving directions by subway Sheet B You could also use this role-play: Role-play on giving directions by subway or bus/museums. As a review, you could also use this cloze activity: Directi...
by yoda
Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:15 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: phonics worksheets
Replies: 0
Views: 1742

phonics worksheets

Whew! We've been working hard. :D We just uploaded 40 new phonics worksheets covering intial sounds. They are all in MS Word format.
by yoda
Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:16 am
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Easter Worksheets
Replies: 0
Views: 2169

Easter Worksheets

Here are a few new worksheets with an Easter theme. I hope to upload some more later this week.