Hi All, ... Thank You for being helpful, *friendly* and thank you for being here! list rules ... 1. *Friendliness first* - this is a public list, avoid...
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Jul 1, 2004 4:01 pm
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Brenda, Here's part of message 5850, which Alan referred to. It's Dave Kees use of the computer in his classroom in a slightly fictionalized format (or is...
Hi. Steve in Luoyang here. I figured it was time I started to contribute a little to this list. Thank you all for helping me through my apprenticeship teaching...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 2, 2004 3:30 am
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Pronunciation of the TH sounds Begin with pronunciation. Walk about the room and have them say "think" and "teeth." Draw or use already drawn pictures of the...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 2, 2004 3:31 am
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Hey Teachers: I'm presenting a paper on teaching ESL with Film at a conference in Hong Kong this summer, and would appreciate comments beforehand. It's about...
peterneu
peterneu@...
Jul 2, 2004 7:13 am
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... "think" and "teeth." Draw or use already drawn pictures of the proper position of the tongue between the teeth and help each individual child. Be sure they...
Pronunciation of R and L Get the students to say the Chinese word for "people," which is "ren." Up here in the He'nan province, when people say this word it...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 2, 2004 7:15 am
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India and China have been competing for the IT outsourcing industry. One key lynchpin in this is English ability. This article makes some interesting...
I am looking into doing some English language courses to learn more about the structure of English, English Grammar, linguistics, history of English etc. At...
Stereotypes: A "stereotype" 陈腔滥调 is a generalization about a person or group of persons. Use some or all of this to entice 诱惑 discussions from the...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 3, 2004 3:55 am
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From your EFL teaching experiences, how would you finish the following: 'I wish knew more about......., it would certainly be useful now' Thanks Kay Bence ...
Carole
carken_us@...
Jul 3, 2004 4:03 am
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Steve Another exercise that worked well for me to help the kids get He/She correct was: Visually demonstrate he/she/his/her using some kids. Then, ask them to...
... teeth. ... Ha! True, but I do it anyway. But I agree partly, in that I wouldn't want to teach a student to do this unless I had enough time to continue...
Hi Steve For a lurker, you can certainly contribute some good stuff. I also pushed the diary idea with my students. This stems from the time when, as I was...
Glad you like them. If anyone wants these lessons in Word format, email me off-list and I will send them to you. ONE of these days I will get around to putting...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 4, 2004 9:08 am
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Yes, I do it, too. And maybe I shouldn't pass on the "myTH" to other teachers, especially THose who read this list and aren't really teachers and wouldn't know...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 4, 2004 9:10 am
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Listening exercise: Play song by the Beatles, "Hello, Goodbye" Teach them hand gestures to go with the song. Go here to download the song in MP3 format....
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 4, 2004 11:19 pm
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Likes and dislikes (degree) Draw a thermometer (wen du ji). Show the different levels of "like." 1.. Love 2.. Like a lot 3.. Like 4.. Like a little 5.. Don't...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 4, 2004 11:19 pm
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First, are you sure you put your tongue between your teeth when making 'th' in normal speech. Just as people say 'handbag' when saying the word and monitoring...
Another activity that has worked well for me is: Divide the students into groups and get them to name their group. Explain the rules. You must describe your...
... Thanks again for your professional teacher's output. The kids here haven't progressed because they don't really USE English. Way out here in the...
Stephen McNeill
steve@...
Jul 5, 2004 2:15 am
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I was told yesterday that I didn't have to use that miserable Oral Workshop series next year. I remember Dave Kees writing about an excellent oral English...
The book is Let's Talk. It's great and I wish all books were this good. It is for speaking and I've never used a course book that got students talking and...
... Can you give us a little more information please Dave? A quick search in Amazon.com showed 129129 books with these words in the title. Is it a Cambridge...
Dave, I presume you get via Amazon? Does the RMB 110 include the tapes? Would you like to give an example of one of the good ideas? Alan...
Brenda Simpson
alan_brenda_s@...
Jul 9, 2004 12:56 am
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... Here's the relevant page at the Cambridge website: <http://publishing.cambridge.org/ge/elt/adultlearners/lets_talk/> There are three levels. Amazon seems...
How things have changed in 7 years. When I left, my various classrooms were in cement block buildings with wooden floors in the rooms. The floors were in such...
... with wooden floors in the rooms..... This description fits our classrooms as late as 2001. For those of you who have not had such an experience, you've...
John Pullen <gaodachang@...> wrote: How things have changed in 7 years. When I left, my various classrooms were in cement block buildings with wooden...
A common problem everyone has to face. I'll add my story at the bottom. -dk ```````````````````````````````````````` Spellchecker lets slip a rein of error By...
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