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Dec 4th 09
Vibrant Wall Posters for Korean School English Zones & Classrooms
Korean public schools are rapidly upgrading their facilities, with the biggest budgets going to outfitting “English Zones”, which are classrooms or areas designed specifically for immersing students in a language and cultural learning environment.
Schools receive budgets for creating and printing posters and wall hangings for these rooms, sporting international places and cultural info....
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Apr 28th 09
Ordinal Numbers Lesson Materials – First, Second, Third, Next, Previous, Last, etc.
This post discusses a useful presentation for teaching ordinal numbers.
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Some lessons lend themselves easily to explanations & games, but ordinal numbers as a concept are not always straightforward to teach. I recently attended a workshop in which my group had to prepare a quick demo lesson on ordinal numbers. To teach it, we used four ideas:
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Nov 4th 08
Über Body Parts: From Beginner Flash Cards to Conversational Idioms
The Body Parts lesson is the mainstay of the ESL classroom, but finding a good & complete set of flashcards online can be tricky, and finding the worksheets that go along with them trickier still. However, there are many good lesson plans for teaching body parts available online, and I will not bore you with mine. Instead, let’s get right to the materials…
Body Parts Flash Cards
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