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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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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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Five Pronoun Rules, Pronoun Exercises, and a Pronoun Auction
There are many rules related to pronoun usage in English. I�ve simplified the most common rules into one basic rule with four exceptions and come up with an auction activity to cement these rules into memories. The basic pronoun rule covers 90 of all pronoun usage. Exceptions, in general, drive students crazy. But tell the students that they sh...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 5
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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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Restaurant Roleplay Cards
12 roleplay cards for issues that could arise related to restaurants, plus a map of where to place students for the roleplays. Give all the students their cards privately and circulate to answer any questions. Students should not show their cards to each other. Then have the students outside the restaurant start the roleplay. Once they have been...
Level: intermediate
Age: 18-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 92
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Grocery Store Conflict Cards
12 roleplay cards for issues that could arise related to shopping in a grocery store, plus a map of where to place students for the roleplays. Extra students can observe or become other customers in Cashier #2�s line or elsewhere in the store. If half the class is observing, have them take over the acting for a second run through of the scenes.
Level: intermediate
Age: 16-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 12
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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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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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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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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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Intonation Practice
A handout to walk students through making recordings that help them understand how stress and emotion can change the meaning of a sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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