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ice breaker - Dear : I am asking about the objectives-students oriented-of using ice-braeking/warming up at the begining of each period of teaching,pls advise. yours haider e-mail: haidermshawessh@yahoo.com

Learning to speak English - Hello there! I found a program in Europe under a host tutor where I realized that in order to learn speak English fluently (http://www.intuitionlang.com/) a very relaxed and warm environment provided by the tutor can have significant impact in your...

[Grammar] home educator - Hello. How do you teach children when and why one should use the perfect aspect of a verb? I am trying to teach my kids irregular verbs and to do so must also teach present, past tense and perfect aspect. Present and past tenses are easy enough...

A bit of extra income for the summer holidays - Hi, I hope I'm not breaking any rules with this post, but I thought it might be useful for those with a good knowledge of English who need a little temporary extra income. If I'm committing a great sin then I apologise. If I'm not then...

new sat vocabulary & preparation - hello looking for input from English and English grammar teachers regarding a new sat preparation software named memowiz.com . memowiz is a software for sat vocabulary (http://www.memowiz.com) preparation. it is fully adaptive and customized per...

how can i start to learing english - Hi to all My name is raad I want to learn English . But i dont Know how can i start . there is any body can help me ? thank you very mach

Help with ESL tutoring - I'm tutoring a 9-year-old Korean girl in English. One of her biggest problems with English is using the definite/indefinite article. She often doesn't use one when she should. I'd appreciate some suggestions with how to help her with both...

[General] Teaching ESL - I am an ESL learner as well, but I was asked to teach English, and I would like to know how to start teaching. I would rather say that it is EFL, but I dont want to start teaching with translations, so, how could I start teaching the basics of...

Language Teaching Methods (Translation?) - I know there are two main methods to teach a foreign language: 1) Based on translation, using the mother tongue of the learner (or maybe another language the learner masters). 2) Based only on the foreign language, trying go make the students...

Trainer Interview : any tips ? - Hi All, I am being interviewed next week for the position of a Teacher trainer. As i have no clue what they would ask , any help is welcome -- I look forward to it. Is there something i should be reading? They sent me a pre-...

Classroom management question - Hi, I was recently asked this question on classroom management. 'You have given instructions for a group activity and everyone has started. Very soon you notice that none of the participants are doing what you want. What would...

TEFL books - Does anybody know where I can get a good overview of the most important TEFL coursebooks and other resources that have been published over the last ten years or so?

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