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- Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:28 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Group Work
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3668
Rozanna, I teach university students in Taiwan and I face frequent problems with doing group work. Here are a few common problems: - it's hard to monitor their work (pick up emergent language, spot errors, hear if they are speaking English or Chinese) with a large class (sometimes it just sounds lik...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:55 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Videos of good teaching?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5686
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:28 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: ? Using coursebook material creatively and extending work
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10148
More links on this topic. In 2007 and 2009, Mario Rinvolucri wrote some short articles containing some activities similar to those in Humanising Your Coursebook. As he explains in the articles, these activities are intended for use with Green Line, an ESL coursebook, but they can also be adapted for...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: ? Using coursebook material creatively and extending work
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10148
This is a topic I'm really interested in, so I thought I'd add a few comments. I'd highly recommend you get a copy of Mario Rinvolucri's Humanising Your Coursebook. You can see a preview here: Humanising Your Coursebook - Book Preview Marisa Constantinides also has some clever ideas for working with...
- Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:59 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Provoking Thought - a resource book for ESL/EFL
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3493
Recently, the Hotch Potch English website published a review of Provoking Thought which you can see here: http://reviews.hotchpotchenglish.com/2010/03/book-review-provoking-thought.html In addition, It's Magazine featured an article on new books which included a section on Provoking Thought: http://...
- Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:35 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Good websites for teaching methods etc?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6457
I can recommend three sites: TEFL.NET, One Stop English, and Teaching English. You can see some sample articles below... Liz Regan's 20 Teaching Tips http://www.tefl.net/teacher-training/teaching-tips.htm Teaching English with Minimal Resources http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=l...
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:03 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Provoking Thought - a resource book for ESL/EFL
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3493
Provoking Thought - a resource book for ESL/EFL
This is a brief announcement about my second book, titled Provoking Thought. Provoking Thought is a collection of ready-to-use, student-centered activities designed for the ESL/EFL classroom. This book emphasizes using students' thought processes as a resource for language learning. Each chapter cov...
- Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:02 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Drilling
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3119
I created a page with a number of articles about drilling a few months ago:
http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticlessite/drills
http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticlessite/drills
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:27 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Rookie Teacher in Desperate Need of Help
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5722
Also, some links to lots of free games and activities here:
http://www.geocities.com/allhou/lessgames.htm
http://www.geocities.com/allhou/lessgames.htm
- Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:38 am
- Forum: Texts
- Topic: Need a conversation book suggestion
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10044
I think Eric Roth's book Compelling Conversations might be the perfect book for this class. Each chapter covers a different topic, and there are a lot of questions for discussion, along with some interesting quotations and proverbs. You also might want to look at some resource books for teachers, su...
- Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:34 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Need advice on teaching large, adult classes.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5456
I have put together a page of links to articles on the subject of teaching large classes. The first few are for teaching ESL/EFL classes, the others address teaching large classes in general. Take a look:
http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticle ... rgeclasses
http://sites.google.com/site/eslarticle ... rgeclasses
- Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:51 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: help with role-play
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11427
I just found a clever introduction to doing roleplays on the webpages for the Straightforward series of coursebooks. There's an article on doing roleplays, as well as three sample activities:
http://www.macmillanenglish.com/straigh ... leplay.htm
http://www.macmillanenglish.com/straigh ... leplay.htm
- Sat May 23, 2009 9:45 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: How to make introverted students more active in activities?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12804
Some excellent comments by Chris Cotter. I just ran across this blog entry by Scott Thornbury over at the Delta Publishing website: http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/development/learners-who-are-shy-to-speak The article is about shy students not introverted students (shyness and introversion are not ...
- Sat May 02, 2009 2:26 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: What is the best speaking lesson you have done?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6440
In April 2009, Delta Publishing released Teaching Unplugged by Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings, which is an overview of Dogme. You can read more about it here:
http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/html/b ... l#TEACHUNP
http://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/html/b ... l#TEACHUNP
- Sun Apr 19, 2009 7:13 am
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Mnemonics - memory games
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7527
If you are interested, the two articles below regard mnemonics in second language learning ===== The Use of Verbal and Imagery Mnemonics in Second-Language Vocabulary Learning by Andrew D. Cohen http://www.tc.umn.edu/~adcohen/Cohen%20articles/1987%20-%20Use%20of%20Verbal%20&%20Imagery%20Mnem%20in%20...