Forum: Teaching ESL 
Feb 18th, 2016, 07:46 am
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Views: 20,938  Re: Teaching Kindergarten ages 3-5
Dear Katherine,
Hello there. I can definitely help you.
MANAGING THE KIDS
Firstly check out these two blog posts that I did on managing preschoolers and also grabbing their attention. Just...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 9th, 2015, 10:15 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 9th, 2015, 10:02 am
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Views: 2,549 Re: Help with students 6-9 years old
Hello there,
Teach this tense with vocabulary the children already know so that not all elements in the lesson are new. That way kids can focus fully on the new verb tense rather than new...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Mar 3rd, 2015, 06:01 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 10,481 Re: Games for beginners?
Dear Milly,
Hi there, Heike, who is a great teacher who is a major fan of my resources (she bought every single one of them!) told me she had posted a reply to you and I wanted you to know that you...
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Forum: English Questions
Sep 22nd, 2014, 02:27 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,291 Re: Dogs hate cats. Why no S on the verb?
Hi there,
"Dogs hate cats" is a variant of "They hate cats" therefore it is just a regular verb doing the normal thing! He hates, they hate...
All the best
Shelley Ann Vernon
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 20th, 2014, 09:47 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,305 Re: Too much vocab - too little time
Hello there,
I like using mime to learn vocabulary since it is very effective as far as remembering the words in the long term.
Take six new words and with the class make up a simple gesture that...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2014, 12:22 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,793 Re: need some help, Kindergarten
Hello there,
You have to engage them with interesting games that they can all play together because if you do not have their respect unfortunately they will never behave nicely and wait their turn...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2014, 12:05 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 5,102 Re: Students bored with classes
Good point about computers becoming jurassic park.
An excellent way to find out what students are interested in is to have them list their top three topics of what they like on pieces of paper and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 11th, 2013, 08:37 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
May 11th, 2013, 08:31 am
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Forum: Advertise Your Services
May 8th, 2013, 10:26 am
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Views: 2,121 Re: TEFL Resource Library
You'll find some good articles here on teaching ESL too, including using songs, how to teach with stories, using plays and skits, how to teach grammar with games...and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 8th, 2013, 10:23 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 25,093 Re: "Teaching" 5-6 year olds
Hi there
Yes one can do a lot more than just crafts and generally speaking English.
Here is a story with lesson plan. This is just right for ages 4,5 and 6.
Stories for preschool ELL children...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 8th, 2013, 10:19 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 49,133 Re: 1 on 1 classroom games or activities
Hello there,
Here is a great resource for one to one games, with video demonstration:
[url=http://teachingenglishgames.com/how-to-teach-a-child-to-speak-english/[/url]
All the best
Shelley
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 7th, 2011, 06:02 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 6,450 Re: Teaching Advanced Students
Hello there,
My games book for teens and adults has many advanced activities, for example this is one of them:
Persuasion - speaking activity...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Feb 7th, 2011, 05:58 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 7,377 Re: HELP! English Lessons for Adults
Hi there,
Quite early on I would do hair cutting terms so that this lady can communicate with English speaking customers about how they want their hair done - long, short, layered, permed, dyed, and...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Nov 4th, 2010, 03:11 pm
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Replies: 24
Views: 54,653 Re: ESL songs for kids
Hi there,
Yes it had some useful lesson plans for songs but it disappeared at least six months ago, if not more because I too was looking for it - Pam must have given up with it because it can be...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 29th, 2010, 11:57 am
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Views: 3,001 Re: Class ideas
Hi there,
Here are a couple of simple games to practise key nouns from a construction site:
Students each draw a pic of an item they want to learn the name of in English. Stick them up on the...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Sep 29th, 2010, 11:48 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 24,377 Re: Kindergarten Classroom Language
Hi there,
In some ways it's an advantage not being able to speak Turkish as you will be forced to use simple English and demonstrate things, but there's not much point chatting away to them as they...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 28th, 2010, 04:56 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 23rd, 2010, 09:46 am
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Aug 21st, 2010, 02:25 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 18,403 Re: HELP... Kindergarten games
Hi there,
Have you tried stories - kindergarden kids are mysteriously spell-bound by them.
First though you have to quiet them down and that can be done through a game like the "Magic Five":
This...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 1st, 2009, 08:17 am
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Views: 5,715 Re: Share some music games :D
I checked out your link but I could not see how to test the game.
For teachers reading this post because they were looking for games to use in class using music, rather than computer games, here is...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 1st, 2009, 08:09 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 4,974  Re: Problem with reading and class management
Hi there,
Yes, give the students a better reason to read the passage. For example give them a time limit to find four words that start with the letter F, to find three irregular verbs and an adverb...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 1st, 2009, 08:00 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 9,536 Re: teaching 2, 5 year old boys
Hello there,
I can suggest that you take a look at my plays and skits page. You'll see young kids in action in the photos there and you can tell how much they are loving it. There is a group of...
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Forum: ESL Games and Activities
Dec 1st, 2009, 07:51 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 16,792 Re: Teaching children aged 4-6
Hello Aelfred
For 4 to 6 year olds stories, make-believe and songs are the way to go.
I have a complete curriculum for that age group with games to teach the language, stories, songs to go with the...
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