I've been teaching since 2006 and a while ago I created a community (erika_esl_files) to put together the resources I've created over the years but I ended up neglecting it. I'm back to it now and posting a series entitled English Course for Absolute Beginners. I welcome all to participate on the discussions.
Hello everyone! I'm teaching English in one of the Japanese universities. Couple of weeks ago I saw this essay that impressed me. Let me just share it with you.
Student: a Japanese girl, 19-20 years old, a very positive and funny character. Writing project: write for 10 minutes about the person that you respect. Student's level: elementary.
My mother is special funny. She is interesting. She angry sometimes because I take a misstake on my life. But she listens to my things. She really understands to me. It is different, I can't understand myself. But she understands to me. She is super and beautiful and compleated mother. I am happy that I was born in her!
Isn't that the letter that every mother would be happy to get? ;)
I usually teach university students. For the next 5 weeks my university is running an English program for students who are between 13 and 16 years old. I am totally petrified. I will be teaching the lowest level students.
Any tips from teachers who teach this age group regularly? These students are Turkish.
Thanks in advance!
PS: Cross posted on my other ESl teaching community journals.
For each level of the CEFR, what aspects of grammar/vocabulary words/etc are EFL speakers expected to know? I am failing at finding this online, I'm really just looking for a list that I can use as a reference.
Also, does anyone know if there's an electronic version of the Focus on Grammar (Third Edition) books (specifically books 2 and 4)? If I need to pay for it, I will, but I'm in Spain and 1) can't afford to get the books shipped here from America, and 2) can't wait weeks and weeks for these books.
I've been given a new adult class which starts tomorrow evening. There will be three students. They want: - to understand TV programmes such as CSI and House. - "prepare" (I've not been told if they are sitting the exams) for TOEIC - discussion
I usually teach children and do some informal discussion classes with adults. I have downloaded an episode of CSI to use in class.
I've had a long day and this class is a bit of a surprise. Any tips/advice would be fantastic. :)
Edit: I'm in Taiwan. The lesson will be 90 minutes long.
All are invited to take my poll on stupid writing rules at EAPlog and to add others of their own. Disclaimer: this is just for fun/propaganda purposes, and has no scientific validity ;-)
Our University has an exchange program with a University in Scotland. We have a visiting professor here at the moment and he confirmed what I feared, the uni is an accent heavy region.
I would like to prepare the students as best as I can, but I am not from there. BBC has a really useful feature called 'voices' where you can listen to accents from all over the country, but it does not have transcripts.
Does anyone know of a source for Scottish accents that has a transcript of the dialog?
An adult pupil of mine wants to go study in Brighton, Eastbourne or Bournemouth for a couple of weeks or a month or so. Can anyone recommend some schools? Thanks in advance!
I am teaching a demo and I have been asked to teach the differences between if clauses ( 2nd and 3rd conditionals) based on a communicative approach for an intermediate adult class.
Any ideas for games or input on what you would do?
I was thinking maybe playing a fortune teller game but I thank that is been done many times before. I welcome any and all input from you.
erika_esl_files) to put together the resources I've created over the years but I ended up neglecting it. I'm back to it now and posting a series entitled English Course for Absolute Beginners. I welcome all to participate on the discussions.