English (ESL) Weblog: Archives
December 2011
- Dec 27: Site Overview- 2011
June 2011
January 2011
- Jan 16: English Mania
June 2010
- Jun 10: ESL World Cup links
February 2009
January 2009
- Jan 12: Getting Back to Normal
July 2008
May 2008
- May 30: Teachermate -Handheld Console for Educational Games
- May 27: Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
- Feb 20: Lexxica -Vocabulary Analysis
December 2007
- Dec 31: Site Overview- 2007
November 2007
- Nov 30: Teaching Christmas
October 2007
- Oct 29: Teaching Abroad
- Oct 14: Steven Pinker on Language & Thought
September 2007
- Sep 30: Lesson Plans and Handouts
July 2007
- Jul 9: Graded Text Analysis
June 2007
- Jun 21: New Database
April 2007
- Apr 22: Supplementary Teaching Resources for EFL/ESL Teachers
- Apr 13: Is there/Are there?
- Apr 13: Talking About Routines - a handout
February 2007
- Feb 5: A handout on the Present Perfect tense
- Feb 1: Lesson Plan/Target Language: What does s/he do? S/he's a (occupation).
January 2007
December 2006
- Dec 31: Site Overview- 2006
- Dec 22: A handout on irregular plural noun forms
November 2006
- Nov 18: Pronounciation Practice and Listening Exercise - listening and practicing the 'th' sound
- Nov 1: How do you spell (noun) in English?
October 2006
- Oct 31: All about me! - A classroom activity
- Oct 26: Who is he? / Who is she? - A guessing game
- Oct 10: What (food/colour/sport) do you like? I like (noun)
- Oct 10: What are you doing? I'm (action) Lesson Plan
- Oct 6: Contextualizing
- Oct 4: Changing Wh-questions with do, does, or did into indirect questions - a handout
- Oct 2: Where's the (roach)? It's (preposition) the wall.
September 2006
- Sep 24: Expressing Wishes
- Sep 19: Changing Wh-questions with the be verb to indirect questions - a handout
July 2006
- Jul 23: Strategies For Remembering
- Jul 21: Thought Bubbles
- Jul 6: To "Google"
June 2006
- Jun 23: What do you see? I see a (noun). Lesson Plan for Young Learners
- Jun 8: Teaching with Photographs
May 2006
- May 21: Bare Wicked
April 2006
March 2006
- Mar 27: Football Stars Name Their Favourite Books
- Mar 14: The physical body speaks language!
- Mar 8: What aches? Lesson Plan for Young Learners
February 2006
January 2006
- Jan 31: A Primer for teaching English to speakers of other languages
- Jan 15: Lesson Plan: What colour is it? It's (colour).
- Jan 8: Teaching the five W's - Who, What, Where, Why, When (Interrogative pronouns)
- Jan 7: Teaching numbers from 1 to 12, and How many?
- Jan 3: "How are you?" Lesson Plan for Young Learners
December 2005
- Dec 31: End of year overview
November 2005
October 2005
- Oct 17: Tips and suggestions on public speaking.
- Oct 16: A lesson plan to educate high school students (advanced level) about the dangers of intolerance
- Oct 3: What am I?
- Oct 2: 'What if' questions
September 2005
- Sep 19: Wash your mouth out with soap
August 2005
- Aug 13: Realia
- Aug 8: Fruit Basket
- Aug 5: Language and Culture
July 2005
- Jul 31: Cliches
- Jul 23: The EFL Teacher Postcard Project
- Jul 14: Using fairytale plays in the EFL classroom
- Jul 10: EFL and Confucius
- Jul 2: Creating an English atmosphere outside the classroom
May 2005
- May 29: Cinquan Poetry
- May 15: Some more thoughts on the shadow side of teaching abroad
- May 11: Some thoughts on the shadow side of teaching abroad
April 2005
- Apr 25: Who Needs Proof?
- Apr 24: A reflection on lesson planning for young learners
- Apr 21: A recipe for humanizing language teaching: Hand made interview/conversational board games
- Apr 1: Swear words: Do they have a place in the EFL classroom?
March 2005
December 2004
- Dec 21: Is collocation all it's cracked up to be?
- Dec 12: The Pimsleur Method
September 2004
- Sep 26: Code-Switching
August 2004
- Aug 20: Gr8
June 2004
- Jun 18: Business English Online
- Jun 12: When Did Forward Thinking Become a Thing Of The Past?
- Jun 1: Should Newspapers print Swearing?
April 2004
- Apr 29: Fora & Forums
March 2004
- Mar 17: Killer Punctuation
February 2004
- Feb 23: Emails
January 2004
- Jan 26: Dumbing Down Our Children
- Jan 10: Learn Grammar; I didn't!
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
- Oct 25: Empty Speech
- Oct 17: Avenge
- Oct 12: March Session of CAE
- Oct 6: Phrasal Verbs
September 2003
- Sep 15: Exams and Testing
- Sep 5: Citizenship classes for new Britons
August 2003
- Aug 31: Is English an easy language to learn?
- Aug 23: Tense changes in indirect speech
- Aug 18: Unstressed Forms
- Aug 17: Do exams have a negative impact on learning?
- Aug 8: Descriptivist Grammar
July 2003
- Jul 7: Is English Easy?
- Jul 3: Adjectives - Good, Better and Best
- Jul 1: Rules for Comparisons
June 2003
- Jun 28: Webster's Dictionary
May 2003
- May 29: Apostrophes
- May 28: The Myth of 3 Words Ending in 'GRY'
- May 28: A Global Language?
- May 28: The Apostrophe
- May 28: The Whom Debate
March 2003
- Mar 19: I Before E Except After C
- Mar 14: Phrasal Verbs
- Mar 6: Inversion
- Mar 6: Will and Going
- Mar 3: Text Messaging, Computers and Literacy
- Mar 2: Superlanguages
February 2003
- Feb 27: Mental Health, Abnormality and Labelling Theory
- Feb 27: Is There a Grammar of Spoken English?
- Feb 27: Double Letters
- Feb 4: Grammar and Disputation
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