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As i remember, Flat Stanley was a little boy who was squished by something heavy and then his mother sent him all over the world in an envelope to find out about different counties and even to space. You could get the children to make a flat picture of themselves, laminate it in some way (you can us...

Making Jack-O-Lanterns with any large fruit painted orange. Bobbing for apples. Turn out the lights and tell scary stories or show a mildly scary movie. Put up a white sheet with a strong light behind and do an "operation"on someone important -pulling out sausages from the stomach, spaghetti cooked,...

If there is not a translation, I usually show it through, ask for summaries from the students and give them a portion of a transcript of the main idea with vocabulary games and questions and a place to write their own stories which I type out with corrections and share the small book with the studen...

Sorry.
It's under "Activities and Games"

Does she have a computer ? You can lend her use yours and download all sorts of things for her to do and listen to while you work with the others.

You should be in a room that is contained! It is too dangerous to have even one child in a place you can't allow the children to move around freely but safely. In Canada we can only have five children with one teacher. You can have more children in a safe room -up to ten but need an assistant . Thes...

I would try to find out what she knows. You said that she sings some songs so she must have some former training. Start your lesson reviewing what she does know and praise her for getting it right. Then set up a routine for learning new things - five repeats was my goal but not just repeating and he...

Check the top of this forum for the sticky on large classes.

Have you tried taping the class so she can review everything you do? Video would be better if the others agree.

Too bad about your professor . Why don't you email Halliday or Martin and ask for advice? As isaid, H and M might be hard to understand so go to the SFL website and get some help.

Otherwise there are a ton of papers on Google Scholar,

The publisher has a lot of stuff to support its philosophy and its approach. There is a teacher's toolkit. You can also contact them easily. You can use all the information from your training program and contact your professors for recent papers that will back you up. They usually love a good discus...

Ok will look it up. Bernie Mohan and his colleagues did a lot of work in high schools with Chinese students new to Vancouver,B.C., Canada. If you look on Google Scholar on how to teach high school ESL beginners, you will see a lot of papers. I will check my notes and papers from my Masters courses. ...

It might be easier if he copies down the sentence that the word is used in or brings the page with several words. If he puts the words on a computer dictionary program, it will automatically store them and he can find them quickly in alphabetical order. It is better if he has a sentence to use the w...

It is easy to do with an older technology. You just white out all the words and copy the pictures and little balloons on the Xerox. I suppose that is too old fashioned?

I am glad that you have done so much! Most teachers just keep it to themselves and yet we are all having difficulties. This is why it is so great to have Dave's. I would try to follow the main curriculum as much as possible so if there is a chance for the ESL class and the regular classes to merge, ...