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www.123listening.com is a free audio site for teachers of young learners or beginners with matching worksheets and worksheet makers. As far as listening online, there's a lot if you think of all of the YouTube videos, podcasts, and streaming media all over the Net. Most of it's not great for teachin...

Sarah - these are not videos of teaching techniques but podcasts for ESL teachers. They were designed to be useful as advice, ideas and information for new ESL teachers (and old). Basically, designed for you. I hope they're helpful.

Happy teaching,
Mark

Search for one-on-one games, there are loads of ideas out there. Here's an idea for a Rummy type game . You can also try the ESL games section on MES-English.com . There are a lot of games on there that are good for one-on-one. If you have a specific target language you're teaching next, let us know...

OK, if they just want to have a website as an extension of their administration and not really for the Web, then it doesn't really matter. From your original post, I was thinking they might password protect the whole thing. Probably all of those games you can embed will have some sort of external li...

How strange ... If your school has just made the website for their students, then that's OK but if the school is hoping the website will be beneficial across the web (as promotion tool for the school), it's important to both get links from and also link to strong sites. A dead end site isn't viewed ...

There is a new featured site spot called the guest tool on Tools for Educators . You can find great tools from around the web, in addition to all of the worksheet makers you can find on Tools for Educators.com . Also, it's Easter week. If you need printable Easter worksheets , there are plenty there...

You could try www.123listening.com

It has some listening audio and listening worksheet makers.

Those are some great games there. For more conversation games to use with children try: free ESL games, card games, and conversational activities If you are looking for online ESL games, here are a few MES-Games - there are grammar and vocab games Fun Fonix Games - phonics and spelling games You can...

There's a new style of board game available at Tools for Educators . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.toolsforeducators.com/boardgames/rttf.gif Like the other snaking board game styles , you can create game boards with images only, images and 4 text boxes or all text. How to play the game: The game is optim...

you can try www.eslteachertalk.com

Here's a podcast on classroom management with young learners http://www.eslteachertalk.com/2006/04/classroom-management-for-young-learners/ If you want to go the way of motivational charts, you can find printable sticker charts here: www.stickersandcharts.com You can also print out award certificate...

There is a new game, Treasure Chest: _ _ _ _ _ http://www.funfonix.com/games/treasurechest.gif and a new, student-friendly, menu on the games page http://www.funfonix.com/games/abc_games.gif alphabet games http://www.funfonix.com/games/intro_games.gif initial sounds http://www.funfonix.com/games/boo...

Brian - That looks great. I'm going to try it with a high school group I have. I'll let you know how it goes.

- Mark

Here's a visual explanation of how to use the dominoes from the Domino Maker at www.toolsforeducators.com. http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dominoes/dom_exp1.gif If you make some cards with the same word and picture (which you should) those pieces can be played horizontally creating new rows to buil...

I think the active users have migrated to the other forums, like the Japan forum (which I still haven't been authorized to join ...) Also, compared to 2001, there's so much more out there. I would still bet eslcafe gets 2 to 3 times the traffic the next biggest esl sites get. However, people are now...