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Barbara McQueen
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3 decades of mentoring fellow teachers one-on-one, through in-services, as an ESL teacher trainer for Oxford Seminars, and as a conference presenter for TESOL, the VWBPE, SLanguages, and MachinEVO. Currently developing and delivering immersive online ESL courses in the virtual world known as Second Life that make use of situational role-playing, games, mysteries, machinima, and special events.
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Grammatical Tic Tac Toe
This children�s game is one that is familiar to most students. After one quick review of the game rules, all of the class members should understand how to play. The game requires little or no preparation and can be played in those short blocks of time at the end of an hour. I�ve included detailed instructions and many variations.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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Ideas for Giving Game Instructions to Beginners
How do you get beginners to do or understand anything? You must mime and draw and emote. But most teachers, especially new teachers, talk a lot, and too often all that the students hear is a very frustrating, "Blah, blah, blah." Here�s an example of how to get very low beginners to understand the vocabulary term "game" and actually play a game--Pic...
Level: elementary
Age: 3-100
Type: article
Downloads: 23
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Graphic Organizers to Help Students Summarize
Many people have trouble summarizing succinctly. Story hands and story maps can help solve this problem. I�ve included blanks of these graphic organizers that students can fill in, and I�ve also filled out one of each of the organizers for the story "The Three Little Pigs." These organizers can also be used as quick quizzes on stories that your stu...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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Idioms Literal and Figurative Meanings Matching Game
When students first hear an idiom, they may try to picture what the words literally say. But idioms are figurative expressions that do not mean what the students might suspect. When teaching idioms, it can, therefore, be quite instructive to have students draw two simple drawings for each idiom. First, they should draw what the words literally ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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A, An, and The Lesson
A simple lesson that would appeal to many types of learners on how to use a/an/the correctly. Has components for the verbal linguistic learner, the logical mathematical learner, the visual spatial learner, the musical rhythmic learner, the bodily kinesthetic learner, the intrapersonal learner, and the interpersonal learner. If you added a little ...
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 20
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Bare Minimum Business Lingo
Five categories of business terms that are a good starting point for determining what students already know and what they need to learn for doing international business. The five categories are Business Management, Accounting and Finance, Legal, Stock Markets, and Human Resources. This could be used with high intermediate or advanced ESL students.
Level: advanced
Age: 16-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 19
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Adjectives for People
An extensive alphabetical list of positive adjectives for describing people. There are at least five adjectives for every letter of the alphabet, although the adjectives for the letter �x� all begin with �ex.�
I use this as a tool to help students with a getting-to-know-you exercise where they must think of an adjective that describes themse...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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COIK Lesson
COIK stands for "Clear Only If Known" which is, unfortunately, how many of us feel when someone gives us poor directions and then says, "You can�t miss it." To improve my students� direction-giving abilities, I tell them they must defuse a bomb by phone. I put the students back-to-back, and the expert who is supposedly on the other side of the ci...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 13
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Things Found in a Pocket--Degrees of Probability Exercise
A cooperative learning task where students look at pictures of objects supposedly found in the coat pocket of an airplane passenger. The coat was left behind on the plane, and your students need to make deductions about the coat�s owner to help the airline return the coat. A chart is included for students to indicate how certain or uncertain they...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 13
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The Main Construction Differences between Informal and Formal English
Explanations and examples of the nine main differences between informal and formal English.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: grammar-guide
Downloads: 13
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