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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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Idiom Origins Reading with Review Exercise
A shocking and humorous explanation of how some common idioms came about. I suggest passing around one copy and having twelve students read one paragraph each aloud. The exercise that accompanies the reading can then offer a way to check how well the students listened and understood the article. After the students have completed the exercise, pas...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 27
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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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Common Note-Taking Shortcuts and Practice
Students need practice taking notes. Too often they try to write down every word, they don�t use enough abbreviations, and they don�t interact to what they�re hearing while they are listening. So here is a list of many note-taking shortcuts and an efficient notetaking form, plus my notes on a practice mini-lecture I give on the differences between...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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Game Project
When it comes time for students to review everything we�ve learned in a semester in preparation for their final exam, I like to have them work in small groups to create review games. This is the handout I give them to guide them through the process. I find this task greatly improves the students� test scores since they have to do a lot of review ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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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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Affix Dominoes
Expanding students vocabulary is not simply a process of teaching them new words. You also need to teach word roots and affixes (both prefixes and suffixes.) Learning what affixes and roots mean and which affixes and roots can be joined enables students to understand words they never studied. My affix dominoes game will increase students familia...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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Essay Guidelines 2
A list of the basic parts of the standard 5-paragraph essay with an example essay attached on the power and problems of media. Includes 5 possible introductions demonstrating the 5 types of introduction most commonly used: anecdotes, examples, questions, surprising facts/statistics, and expert testimony.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 37
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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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Definition Chart Game
An important skill that ESL students need to acquire that is related to vocabulary is the ability to define words. In fact, they need to be much better at this than native speakers of a language since ESL students will more often find themselves in a situation where they don�t know a word they need to use. If your students can explain their probl...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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