Forum: General Chat 
Oct 27th, 2008, 10:24 am
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Forum: General Chat
Oct 10th, 2008, 11:39 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Oct 7th, 2008, 08:28 am
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Views: 11,918  Re: Informal conversation
"most of the business agreements are made while having an informal talk" Very true!
I've used the Compelling Conversations book quite regularly with one of my students. Home...
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Forum: General Chat
Oct 3rd, 2008, 06:13 am
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Forum: General Chat
Oct 2nd, 2008, 10:19 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Oct 2nd, 2008, 10:03 am
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Views: 8,263 Re: Teaching Burmese students???
Hi Erika!
I help tutor many SEAsians here in the USA. Of course, many of the methods are the same that you would use for Spanish. But getting them comfortable enough to open up and try to learn...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 18th, 2008, 10:37 am
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Views: 11,778 Re: Teaching Online / Phone
Another place to post your online services free is SpokenSkills.com
I like that they let you add a voice clip and create a tutoring info page.
Also, I can't say enough good things about the free...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 18th, 2008, 10:14 am
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Views: 4,001 Re: Olympic Games
Thanks for the poll. Personally, I took most of the summer off from tutoring. All of the international students around here go back to their homes for the summer.. so, I'm one of those "getting back...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Aug 18th, 2008, 10:11 am
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Forum: General Chat
Jun 5th, 2008, 07:52 am
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Forum: General Chat
Jun 2nd, 2008, 09:38 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 23rd, 2008, 08:30 am
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Views: 14,770 Re: The books every TESOL teacher should have?
Even though they are not books, I've added 2 of TE Breitenbach's Proverbidioms posters to my library.
Proverbidioms & T. E. Breitenbach (http://www.tebreitenbach.com/) Fun to set a time limit and see...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 23rd, 2008, 08:09 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 9th, 2008, 08:34 am
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Views: 10,795 Re: How long do you expect to stay in TESL?
I know this is an ancient post (2006) but..
I answered the poll with a "for always". Honestly, it's our second job but someday we see ourselves doing more with it. Hopefully it be the only job. I'd...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 9th, 2008, 08:14 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 14,770 Re: The books every TESOL teacher should have?
Too add to my growing list, this week I bought Eric's "Compelling Conversations" book. Some may remember, I had posted a few weeks ago that I had an advanced student that I felt like I was running in...
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Forum: English Questions
May 9th, 2008, 07:57 am
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Views: 3,007 Re: Soil vs earth
My 2 cents:
I think here they are using "earth" in the whole sense. The whole earth is not eroding. Generally when one using earth and erosion together, you would say something like"erosion of...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
May 6th, 2008, 11:00 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 24th, 2008, 03:16 pm
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Views: 3,837 Teaching conversation skills
I have one new student that wants me to work with him on conversation. However, to be quite honest, I don't really feel like he needs my help. He speaks very well and really only needs to work on...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 24th, 2008, 03:14 pm
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Views: 5,894 Re: Book-Knowledge vs. Experience
I like this question.. it's ironic, because as a now "official" (tongue-in-cheek) ESL teacher I have begun to recently ask my students what they think makes a good teacher. The most common answer so...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 9th, 2008, 07:43 am
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Views: 14,770 Re: The books every TESOL teacher should have?
Bagga-
Thank you! From the little I have read so far, I am interested to look further at the English File books. I printed out some of their online .pdf files to try with two of my one-on-one...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 1st, 2008, 09:32 am
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 1st, 2008, 08:12 am
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Views: 3,635 Re: Is non-biased ESL possible?
Reminds me of a quote by a Romanian/French author I like, Emil M. Cioran. (A bit of a pessimistic read, don't judge me LOL) Anyway, it says " One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language"...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Apr 1st, 2008, 08:03 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 14,770 The books every TESOL teacher should have?
Up until this point I have been making my own materials to use with students. Since, I've only been doing one-on-one tutoring this has been easy enough. However, I am now going to start teaching...
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Forum: Teaching ESL
Mar 5th, 2008, 08:58 am
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Views: 2,785 Re: Do you videotape your students? When? Where?
I have personally never video taped a student. Yet, last week when I was at a student's home, she expressed to me that other teachers back in Korea had used it and how "scared" it made her. Digging...
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Forum: General Chat
Feb 29th, 2008, 02:11 pm
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Views: 3,523  Re: Entering the USA
I don't know if this person is a member here but there is a lesson on that here:
Airport English: Getting Through Customs (http://bogglesworldesl.com/survival_travel_english/airport_english.htm) The...
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