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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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Five Types of Persuasion
You can tell students to vary the types of persuasion they use in essays, but they often get in ruts or simply don�t quite understand. So I find it useful to take one topic and give them five paragraphs on it, with each paragraph representing a different type of persuasion. On this handout, I�ve done that on the topic of imposing a teen curfew.
Level: advanced
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 32
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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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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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Idioms Literal and Figurative Meanings Matching Game
When students first hear an idiom, they may try to picture what the words literally say. But idioms are figurative expressions that do not mean what the students might suspect. When teaching idioms, it can, therefore, be quite instructive to have students draw two simple drawings for each idiom. First, they should draw what the words literally ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 22
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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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Graphic Organizers to Help Students Summarize
Many people have trouble summarizing succinctly. Story hands and story maps can help solve this problem. I�ve included blanks of these graphic organizers that students can fill in, and I�ve also filled out one of each of the organizers for the story "The Three Little Pigs." These organizers can also be used as quick quizzes on stories that your stu...
Level: elementary
Age: 7-100
Type: reading
Downloads: 23
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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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Square Puzzles for Noun/Verb Pairs and Idioms and Their Definitions
Print and cut apart one of each puzzle for every 2-3 students. Start the students with the noun/verb puzzle to get the students used to how this type of puzzle works. Suggest they work with the corner and edge pieces first like many of us tackle jigsaw puzzles. Circulate around the classroom a lot, especially with the first puzzle they do to make...
Level: intermediate
Age: 8-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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Game Project
When it comes time for students to review everything we�ve learned in a semester in preparation for their final exam, I like to have them work in small groups to create review games. This is the handout I give them to guide them through the process. I find this task greatly improves the students� test scores since they have to do a lot of review ...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 13
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Essay Guidelines 1
An essay about writing essays. Everything the essay recommends is demonstrated in the essay with the key points in red. Students need essay writing requirements spelled out like this and examples.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 37
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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: 59
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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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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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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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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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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: 68
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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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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: 57
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