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12/28/00-English Learning Tips and Ideas for the Coming New Year
12/06/00-Classic Christmas Carols
11/30/00-Young Learner's ESL EFL Songs
11/09/00-Thanksgiving Special
11/02/00-Grammar Terminology
10/16/00-Halloween Special
10/05/00-English Pronunciation Practice
09/20/00-Telephone English
09/06/00-Tense Review for Advanced Levels
08/02/00-Using the Internet to teach English for Special Purposes (ESP)
07/20/00-Vocabulary Themes
07/06/00-Get the Most for Your Level
06/21/00-Guide to Teaching English Basics for Non - Professionals - 2
06/07/00-Guide to Teaching English (ESL, EFL, TEFL) for Non - Professionals
05/24/00-Whole Brain Learning
05/10/00-PEAK English: Online Course Review
04/25/00-NTC's ESL Reference Materials Review
04/08/00-Beginner's Basics
03/22/00-Accent Listening Gallery
03/08/00-Choosing Props for the ESL/EFL classroom
02/23/00-Test Taking Strategies
01/24/00-Principled Eclecticism
01/07/00-Setting ESL Objectives
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Making New Year Resolutions is a common tradition at the end of the year. Here are a number of great tips to help you improve your English learning or teaching in the coming New Year. Choose a few tips for your own English New Year's Resolution.
Each carol has the first verse and the difficult words defined at the end of the song so that you or your classes can understand each song. There is also a link at the end of each page to a printable sheet so that you can print the Carol out for use at home and in class.
This feature contains the texts to a number of young learner's songs focusing on building various basic language skills. While these songs may be used for pre-schoolers in a native English speaking environment, they are very useful for helping older students learn English as their second language.
This holiday feature includes a reading comprehension with difficult vocabulary explanations about the history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving followed by a multiple choice comprehension quiz.
This feature presents an extract with a follow-up guide giving examples of the most important grammar terminology. By quickly reviewing this reference sheet, you can quickly brush-up your or your class' understanding of key grammar terminology, while at the same time reviewing some basic grammar concepts.
Improve you or your class' understanding of Halloween with this special Halloween feature including: Vocabulary Quizzes, Halloween Traditions, and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe with special vocabulary section.
Good pronunciation depends on the ability to accent the correct words and successfully use intonation to make sure you are understood. This feature includes exercises to help you improve your pronunciation through the correct use of word stress.
Learning how to communicate well on the telephone is one of the top priorities for many students who need to use English at work. This feature includes a number of ingredients to improve telephoning skills. Included you will find specific telephoning phrases, telephoning techniques to improve confidence when telephoning and telephoning practice exercises for use with your colleagues or in the classroom.
Time for school to start. Before you or your students get down to studying the specifics of various grammar structures, it is a good idea to review the basic English tenses. If you are an upper level student but not yet aware of all the tenses, these exercises will make a good introduction to some of the important structures ahead.
One of the problems that faces many English as Second Language (read ESP, ESL, EFL, TEFL, TESOL, TOEFL etc.) teachers is that students expect the teacher to be incredibly knowledgeable about everything! By using the methods in the example lesson - actually you will probably need at least two lessons - you can give your students "real world" English for their specific ESP needs.
The first of a growing vocabulary resource which takes a specific word group and develops it by starting at the beginner level, going through the intermediate level and, finally, to the advanced level. Each word is defined, put into context, and then followed by a pronunciation example sound file and follow-up quiz.
Here at About, the ESL (English as a Second Language) resources have grown tremendously over the past year. This feature introduces areas that have been conveniently divided into appropriate materials for each level. Each level contains: grammar, listening, vocabulary, lesson plans, reading, writing, and reference pages.
Learn the basics to creating an effective learning experience for your classes or private students. This feature focuses on building a program for your class or private students based on language recycling, a technique that assures long-term communicative success. Use these guidelines to help you decide what should be taught and how to teach particular linguistic functions.
Speaking English as your mother tongue does not a ESL or EFL (English as second language / English as foreign language) teacher make! This guide is provided for those of you who would like to know some of the basics of teaching English to non-native speakers of English. These basic techniques are useful when teaching friends, at a charity, on a volunteer basis, as a part-time job, as a hobby, etc.
Tips, Tricks, Activities and Tools for the ESL EFL classroom - or any classroom - using "whole brain" techniques used in Suggestopedia, NLP, to help learners use their whole brain in an engaging and effective long term language learning experience.
PEAK English is an excellent and reasonably priced online English course which not only provides high quality online instruction, but also gives teachers - ANY teacher - the chance to develop and deliver their own online course.
This review takes a look at reference materials, guides and dictionaries designed with the special needs of nonnative speakers (English as a second language) in mind. These guides have all been written/edited by lexicographer Richard A. Spears Ph.D and are published by the NTC Contemporary Publishing Group.
"Beginner's Basics" has been provided to help beginning students learn English. The English and exercises used are very simple so that you or your ESL/EFL students can easily understand the information presented.
Listening quizzes using the unique structure of About.com that gives students and teachers of English access to an extremely wide variety of accents.
The use of various "props" in the classroom can really liven things up and help students improve their long term learning.
Taking a test is not only about knowing English. Here is some sound advice on how to do well.
The art of picking and choosing your approach based on a student needs analysis. Includes an analysis of two example classes.
Knowing exactly what you want is half the battle and can dramatically improve your learning curve.
