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I'm an experienced Esl teacher , but always learning. Right now I am teaching a group of 8 high intermediates (well, one, the only male in the group, is lower). 4 of the 7 women are here in an au pair program that requires their presence in an Esl class. All the women are bright, lively, and communi...

I've been asked to submit a proposal for a very open ended/tentative volunteer assignment (no worries about enslavement - it's a good org I happen to be connected to - and I wouldn't be in it for money/etc.) I'm a fairly experienced ESL teacher with a TEFL cert and maturity. I need to develop propos...

An intermediate student of mine is looking to buy a Business English text for self-study. He's a numbers/measurement/stat guy already working in the profession. He has a masters in M/S - first language is French. We used a lesson from English for Global Business (by Lites) in class so he could get t...

Thanks, Sally, taping is an excellent idea, I'll give it a try. I'm teaching at a private language school without any facilities of the sort you mentioned, though there would be tons of resources beyond the school in this urban area. I'm just not sure how to raise the issue of any existing "conditio...

I'm looking for some ideas about how to help an intermediate student of mine. She mentioned to me at one point that she had "memory problems" in school, and that everyone was surprised when she was able to pass the standardized high school? test in her country (Haiti). I'm thinking that she has some...