jamesgillis22 <jamesgillis22@...> wrote: about Bob Thanks James and, you too, Dave. I think your exposition James, for the want of a better word, was...
A couple years ago a student came to take the final exam. The thing about this student was that I couldn't remember him. He insisted he had been a student of...
Changing subject slightly: I'm now teaching in Hong Kong at secondary level. I'm looking for a several-week-long project / unit that young (13 - 14 yr olds)...
Do you have a copy of Jazz Chants? The teaching group I was with had it in their standard library for teach school, though I never used it. You can put just...
I hate to say it, but I'm all 'bob-ed' out. Looking back over my past contributions I have been want to expound vast amounts of diatribe to pad out my often...
foreigner@...
Oct 1, 2006 8:04 pm
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Hi All, Roger has put a wiki online for teachers of English as a second or foreign language: http://wikigogy.org A wiki is a website where you can not just...
TEFLChina@yahoogroups...
Oct 1, 2006 10:12 pm
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Well, James and Graham and Dave, I'm no Luddite, but getting a powerpoint projector or a DVD player or even an overhead projector in my classroom is a...
Elizabeth Searles
thesearles@...
Oct 2, 2006 12:02 am
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... This project can be done once, or repeated with different base vocabulary each time, for a 14-week term. 1. Ask students to choose words in their native ...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Oct 2, 2006 12:03 am
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... the system, we are guests of China, invited there, in the vast majority of cases, to help improve the oral ability of our students within the existing...
Here's a little example, courtesy of Stephen Pinker, to make prescriptive grammarians sweat a bit. We still get these rule makers insisting that because words...
Anyone interested in the subject of whether NS English teachers are here to change the system should read professor Ong's book about how NS English teachers...
Steven King
wangaorabbit@...
Oct 2, 2006 3:55 pm
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tibbetts@... wrote: Mary counted everyone there before John saw them. Will a singular work here? Mary counted everyone there before John saw him. Mary...
bonvoyageagain@...
Oct 2, 2006 3:55 pm
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Sept. 31, 2006 I would appreciate any help that you can offer. I am starting a class for Western business people. I have had quite a lot of actual experience...
My apology if I have mis-credited the original comment "if it is not comprehended it is, by definition, not comprehensible." These on going stings can be a bit...
Okay, Dr. Bland. I understand your follow up. In fact I suspected you had simply confused your wording. And that's the 'rub' is it not. I mean, my real point...
This is interesting, Nelson. Thanks. I've got a PILE of kids I'm teaching, though -- about 320 in 8 groups for pronunciation/phonetics So, I still need some...
To make the teacher's job a little easier you need to have Bob accept a finger print as identification or if you are trusting the monitor, have the monitor key...
... I would appreciate any help that you can offer. I am starting a class for Western business people...My problem is to structure the classes. Can anyone...
... for any of the personal pronouns. Thereafter, the sentence would read: "Mary counted everyone there before John saw anyone." ... It would have to be an...
... in > English, or for those not so proficient in English ... Thanks Karen for responding. My wife (Chinese) and I are planning to teach native English...
I hate jazz chants. It's the backward process of learning to write poetry. ... You'll need an IPA-based phonemic alphabet with less than the 48 characters or...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Oct 3, 2006 12:51 am
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... My wife (Chinese) and I are planning to teach native English speaking businessmen two levels of the Chinese language plus Chinese business practices. The...
Hmmm . . . so, the two positions are: on the one hand, in Dick Tibbett's words "Classrooms aren't owned by cultures. If we are working in a classroom we have a...
Robert, try the LCCIEB books. They are very good but sorry cannot give you any info on where to buy them. I bought some from a friend in Shenzhen who ran an...
Stephanie Noke
araxy@...
Oct 3, 2006 12:08 pm
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To me, if you add "anyone" it gives an entirely different meaning to the sentence. In the beginning we are talking about several people, whereas at the end we...
Stephanie Noke
araxy@...
Oct 3, 2006 12:09 pm
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Put much more eloquently than I could, James. This is what I had in mind with my facetious remark about replacing "Bob" with a teacher. Doesn't a good ...
MODERATOR NOTE: This has been an interesting discussion, with useful posts (including this one). However, it is starting to move into a level of detail that is...
... When I first came out here I was employed as an agent of change, part of a move to employ outside teachers as a leaven in a system that was felt to be...
Hi there I would recommend that you look at Market Leader. This guides you through a number of different situations, which you could expand upon. I have...
"My wife (Chinese) and I are planning to teach native English speaking businessmen two levels of the Chinese language plus Chinese business practices." You...
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