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by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:09 pm
Forum: Texas ESL Teachers and Teaching
Topic: hello~~~!!^^*
Replies: 2
Views: 5965

Well and as this is the "Texas-site": We did a unit on Texas this year, focussing on all the different ethnicities that live there. It's an eye-opener of some sorts to discover that American websites almost exclusively see "culture" in terms of diversity and different ethnicities - the more multicul...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:05 pm
Forum: Texas ESL Teachers and Teaching
Topic: hello~~~!!^^*
Replies: 2
Views: 5965

Well, you'd be more likely to get response if you wrote to communicate with people instead of just writing sentences in English, apropos nothing in particular. For me, that's what I'm after around here. It's not so much help with my classes, or venting, or links to cool sites but interaction.... I w...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:59 pm
Forum: Texas ESL Teachers and Teaching
Topic: psychotic behaviour
Replies: 2
Views: 7166

..or with a couple of meditative minutes? Get everybody to sit at their desks, head on their arms, eyes closed. Have them synchronize their breathing, and just stay like that, for two minutes or so, then have them lift their heads, look you in the eye, and say "Good morning, Mr. Voctor". Try to have...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:48 pm
Forum: English for Specific Purposes
Topic: Videos and DVDs
Replies: 12
Views: 8444

I recently watched the World Trade Center memorial edition by the History Channel with a class. It had been recorded prior to the events of September 11, 2001. There was a fairly unsettling scene in it where a technician explained how the building would be safe and sound even if a jetliner crashed i...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:40 pm
Forum: Texts
Topic: Really bad textbook - help!!
Replies: 3
Views: 4228

Well, first I think I would investigate what it is that the students are primarily lacking in. I'm very fond of vocabulary explanation exercises, the kind that require you to explain a word using what's at your disposal. I would give them a list of professions, for example, and have them explain wha...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 3:26 pm
Forum: Pronunciation
Topic: Imitation is a good way to speak English
Replies: 8
Views: 9174

Imitating

how do you choose a certain person to immitate? He/she's got to be available, and there's got to be an element of choice. I don't know about your place, but here, competent speakers are rare. if A teacher uses English tone, but B teacher speaks with American tone; in that case, how should to overco...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:23 pm
Forum: Business English
Topic: Business English for IT professionals
Replies: 9
Views: 21014

Information...

Check out

http://newsdirectory.com/magazine.php?cat=4&sub=&c=

It's an online newsdirctory which features all kinds of computer magazines. You'll be sure to find something there that's geared towards the interests of your students.
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:18 pm
Forum: Secondary School Education
Topic: Punishment: should it be in English?
Replies: 9
Views: 6832

Why do your students stand up when they know they are about to be punished/humiliated in some way? Because they don't regard attention as humiliation or punisment, on the contrary, it's a chance to them to present themselves to the class, a chance to get the full attention of the teacher, something...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:05 pm
Forum: Keypals
Topic: Discussing the death penalty anytime soon?
Replies: 12
Views: 7612

You know....

I don't know if it's just the internet, though... I had my students respond to a list of death-penalty related statements, and *terse* is a mild adjective to describe the statements I got. For example, I used The death penalty is a deterrant to criminals. as a prompt, and they answered: Yes. Nobody ...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:58 pm
Forum: Business English
Topic: how to doing the business??
Replies: 54
Views: 51599

Thanks Cutecat, sorry I double-posted. You say that your problem is that you can't express yourself freely, but that's absolutely not the impression that I'm getting from reading your messages here. It sounds as if you're saying what you intended to say, without any major hiccups. When a client fire...
by serendipity
Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:46 pm
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: Teacher Development. (personal connections to teaching).
Replies: 2
Views: 3564

Do you have to find answers to these questions for yourself, or are you conducting some sort of survey that you'd like to present? Do I reflect on teaching and learning in and out of the classroom? Who would dare to say "No!" here, even if he/she didn't? Actually, I think that the ability to stop co...
by serendipity
Wed Apr 21, 2004 2:21 pm
Forum: Elementary Education
Topic: Gifted and Culturally Diverse Students
Replies: 1
Views: 3026

???

A long standing concern of educators has been the underrepresentation of culturally diverse students in gifted programs. Has it? I had the impression that students from Asian countries for example, tended to be overrepresented in your "gifted" programs to the extent that ethnic discrimination was a...
by serendipity
Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:11 pm
Forum: Secondary School Education
Topic: Presentations
Replies: 15
Views: 14313

Well, I hope these presentations will amount to real-life skills in the long run - it's not if all of them are soaring successes, and they're well aware of their shortcomings when they do less well than they'd expected. But coping with failure is a life-skill, too, I suppose. Here, all English lesso...
by serendipity
Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:30 pm
Forum: Texas ESL Teachers and Teaching
Topic: How do I integrate multicultural issues in the classroom?
Replies: 2
Views: 7464

How am I effectively able to integrate multicultural issues into the classroom? It depends on your class, really. I'm not sure what you actually mean by "multicultural issues" here, in my classes, these issues tend to surface naturally, since the students come from a variety of different ethnic bac...
by serendipity
Tue Apr 20, 2004 4:17 pm
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: key-pal exchange
Replies: 2
Views: 4023

Re: key-pal exchange

How can non-native teachers help kids to develop english through internet? By developing their own English though the internet, and by sharing the experience. However my students had some trials, soon they gave it up. I think there are many reasons to stop exchanging. Why do you think they give it ...