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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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Grammatical Tic Tac Toe
This children�s game is one that is familiar to most students. After one quick review of the game rules, all of the class members should understand how to play. The game requires little or no preparation and can be played in those short blocks of time at the end of an hour. I�ve included detailed instructions and many variations.
Level: elementary
Age: 6-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 24
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How-To Speech Ideas, Requirements, and Models
It is appropriate to teach some public speaking skills to ESL students in addition to conversation practice. The easiest first speech is a how-to speech since it is usually relatively short and uses visual aids that help keep the speaker focused and give the audience something to stare at besides the speaker. In this file there are a list of many...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 10
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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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Group Discussion Rubric and Who Are the Best Citizens Discussion Topic
Different cultures have different expectations as to what is considered appropriate and valuable in a discussion participant. Hence, it is useful to clarify what these attributes are in English-speaking countries, like the United States, and to grade students accordingly. I like to display the rubric in this file, write the students� names across...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 4
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Tongue Twisters
A collection of 45 tongue twisters on a one-page handout plus several charts showing which sounds or sound contrasts are particularly troublesome for speakers of different languages. Often the problem for our ELL students is that English has sounds that don�t exist in the students� native language, so a list is included in this file of those Englis...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 61
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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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Diagramming Practice with Lines
Decades ago we diagrammed sentences to help us understand their structure. Not all students like to do this, but mathematical-logical students love it (see Gardner�s 8 types of intelligence.) Diagramming is useful to show if we have complete or incomplete sentences, whether a given word in a sentence should be an adverb or an adjective, how prepo...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 6
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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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Adjectives for People
An extensive alphabetical list of positive adjectives for describing people. There are at least five adjectives for every letter of the alphabet, although the adjectives for the letter �x� all begin with �ex.�
I use this as a tool to help students with a getting-to-know-you exercise where they must think of an adjective that describes themse...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 14
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Tact Headbands
Students roleplay a situation while wearing headbands that identify negative character traits. The other roleplayers must use tact while speaking about the character traits, and everyone tries to guess what their headbands said at the end of the activity.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 6
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Trial Facts for the Killing of Mr. Griffin
A murder is described and other information about trials is given to enable your students to act as the witnesses, criminals, lawyers, and judge. Intermediate students will need a lot of help preparing trial questions, and the teacher will most likely need to be the judge, but advanced students can ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 13-100
Downloads: 25
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Horse Idioms
English language learners of all levels love to learn idioms. This horse idioms collection has two slides for each idiom. The first slide contains a picture based on a literal interpretation of the idiom. Elicit suggestions from the students as to what the idiom may mean. Then show the next slide ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 6-17
Downloads: 17
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Survival Game�Part 2
A fun way for students to learn important emergency survival facts and to get students talking. Students can play as individuals or as teams that must come to a consensus on what they think the correct answer is. I like to have students or team representatives move to different parts of the room d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 58
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PowerPoint Basics
This is a powerpoint on making powerpoints. Although most students today know how to make a powerpoint, some don�t or some need a refresher on the options they can choose for their creations. If it seems that many of your students need help, you might go through the powerpoint with them, perhaps a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 32
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Survival Game�Part 3
A fun way for students to learn important emergency survival facts and to get students talking. Students can play as individuals or as teams that must come to a consensus on what they think the correct answer is. I like to have students or team representatives move to different parts of the room d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 56
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Survival Game�Part 1
A fun way for students to learn important emergency survival facts and to get students talking. Students can play as individuals or as teams that must come to a consensus on what they think the correct answer is. I like to have students or team representatives move to different parts of the room d...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Downloads: 66
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Vocabulary Assessment
If you are uncertain of the real level of your students, you may wish to use this PowerPoint to quickly check how much they know in several basic categories. The slides are arranged from the most basic elements to more complex ideas. You may randomly point to different items on each slide while ca...
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Downloads: 22
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The Untimely Death of Peter Profit
This is a graphic novel of a mystery I set up for my students in the virtual world known as Second Life. The students worked in teams to solve the mystery, and I took photographs of them as they worked. Then the students used my pictures to make this graphic novel with Comic Life software. Later a...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 15
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Field Trip Proposal�Project Example
Students love taking field trips, but the time and paperwork required can deter many teachers from taking their students on these trips. To allow the students to understand the many factors that must be considered and to have a say in the process, I created a field trip proposal project. The stude...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Downloads: 8
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