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Oh, I almost forgot! Tried and true: magazine ads and photos accompanying articles! 1. Just collect a bunch of magazines that your local hair salon is going to throw away 2. Go through one lazy, rainy, Sunday afternoon and clip out all the pictures--particularly of the boring everyday stuff like som...

I agree with Sally Try things like: Garfield Peanuts Archie Dilbert Spawn (Okay, maybe not the last one! :P ) Failing that, there is a book called something like "101 Pictures for Teachers" or something straight-forward and obvious. It's basically just stick figure drawings so that ANYONE can draw t...

Heya Seagull

Run a Google search for things like:

* +scaffolding +"language teaching"

* +scaffolding +"language learning"

* +scaffolding +"language"

* +scaffolding +Vygotsky

That should provide ample starting point for you.

Best,
Tanuki

LOL! Sheila, that's too funny! :lol: Nice ideas. I also agree with the FIRST part of Seagull's response. But I'm getting hung up on the use of "make" here. Perhaps it's just a translation issue. I'm aware that there is often confusion between Asian and non-Asian languages with "make/ let so/o do s/t...

Heya, Sheila Perhaps you should take a trip to your local language bookstore (or buy a few textbooks or sign-up to some membership sites) and look at the curriculum at work. They're probably all structural syllabuses (which I'm not a fan of personally, but everyone and their dog seems to think they'...

Sally, I think the OP was asking about what are known variously as "multiword verbs" or "phrasal verbs" rather than verbs that employ an auxiliary. However, your idea about using COLOURED cards is excellent. This is waaaay underutilised even with adult learners. Colour is a great learning aid. Also,...

Heya, lealea11 Depends on what kind of social life you're after, dunnit? Your friend makes a good point. If you're young and into partying and want to live in a city, then it's a good point. Having said that, though, it's exactly what's likely to happen ANYWAY from the connections you make in the st...

Put the following into Google (yes, with the quotation marks):

"english word games"

42,000 results when I checked just now. There's gotta be a starting point or catalogue in there somewhere for you!

Tanuki

Hi there, wangzhenjiang Perhaps you could integrate it with geography (both physical geography and social geography) topics covered in class; kids at this age seem to start developing an interest in the big wide world. (Just before they become teenagers and retreat into an inner world of me-me-me, t...

Hi there, folks! I'm a little bit reticent to make the following post here given that it's my first post in this Secondary Education forum (I'm not new to ESL Cafe (or language teaching); I post mainly in the Japan, Newbie, and General forums). There are so many interesting threads in this forum tha...

Hi there, folks! I'm putting the finishing touches on a Christmas Resource Pack for language teachers (aimed mostly at elementary teachers, but also with some stuff in there for junior high, senior high and adult ed teachers). It's not quite finished yet (11th Dec.) despite my tapping away at it eve...

Hi there, folks! I'm a little bit reticent to make the following post here given that it's my first post in this Elementary Education forum (I'm not new to ESL Cafe; I post mainly in the Japan, Newbie, and General forums). Nevertheless, given the date... here it is: I'm putting the finishing touches...