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Comment on Adverb placement practise (1hr 30 minutes) by Simon Thomas

Simon Thomas — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:08:57 +0000

They should be below the activity! @simon -

Comment on Revision games – prepositions of place and movement (40 minutes) by helen

helen — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:42:18 +0000

TKS A LOT.I’LL DO IT IN MAY CLASS

Comment on Adverb placement practise (1hr 30 minutes) by Simon Thomas

Simon Thomas — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:17:52 +0000

Originally Posted By simon
were can we find the answers?

The answers should be at the bottom of the instructions for this activity now. Cheers, Simon

Comment on Limerick Dictation/Pronunciation Lesson (about 1 hour) by Phoneme Awareness: Advanced Levels | TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas

Phoneme Awareness: Advanced Levels | TEFL Resources and Lesson Ideas — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:45:00 +0000

[...] Go through the monophthongs (single sounds) on the standard EFL phonetic chart and invite your students to a game of rhyming tennis. [...]

Comment on Adverb placement practise (1hr 30 minutes) by simon

simon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:07:48 +0000

were can we find the answers?

Comment on Describing Body Language – IWB lesson by Simon Thomas

Simon Thomas — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:54:31 +0000

@ Tim McLeish - Thanks for that, Tim! I reckon I can work all that into a lesson or two and will probably try it later this week! All best wishes Simon

Comment on Grammar/Vocabulary Revision: Text-Stripping by Tim McLeish

Tim McLeish — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:26:04 +0000

And a great opportunity as an alternative ending to point 3. of “reconstruction” to create alternative texts. In fact, if you deleted enough of the original, then found alternatives for what you’d deleted, then deleted the rest of the original and made more substitutions, you could come up with a completely new text together. (I’ve done that before as a songwriter – but no-one will know what song I deleted to make it there! ;-)

Comment on Intonation Lesson (about 50 minutes) by Tim McLeish

Tim McLeish — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:17:57 +0000

I must confess, there are times I’ve not wanted to use the word banana – maybe I’ve heard it too many times or maybe I fear my students will get embarrassed by the phallic-ness of the banana. Anyway I tend to find that any other 3-syllable names for fruit and veg work equally well. Try it with potato, tomato, pineapple, strawberry, etc. (… or cucumber?)

Comment on Describing Body Language – IWB lesson by Tim McLeish

Tim McLeish — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:08:53 +0000

That man (Phillipe Petit) is amazing. Also his English is very beautiful and worth using as listening material; it’s very French and yet he’s made the language his own. You could choose something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD9jsx9mKtQ&feature=related

if you like working with body language…

Or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vztE8eeYFE&feature=fvw

if you’re interested in English as a Lingua Franca (note the way the interviewer feels it necessary to paraphrase him but also has to credit him with his poetry – i.e. even if he misses the 3rd person -s he sounds good). You could explore the way he puts words together unconventially (twist in the story: twist in the tale, no? but it works – and learners of internationally-minded English should be aware that their “mis”collocations can work just fine. Or you could do an error correction excercise if you’re more traditionally-minded (resist to say, missed -s; present for past etc); look at successful word combinations (“close relationship” “transformed into something else”); use of hand gestures to help express meaning… I haven’t done it yet but I reckon a very interesting lesson could come of it (especially with an advanced class) :-)

Comment on Sentence Stress through Obama’s inauguration speech by Tim McLeish

Tim McLeish — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:24:19 +0000

Great! Let us know how it goes :-)