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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 Pronoun Rules, Pronoun Exercises, and a Pronoun Auction
There are many rules related to pronoun usage in English. I�ve simplified the most common rules into one basic rule with four exceptions and come up with an auction activity to cement these rules into memories. The basic pronoun rule covers 90 of all pronoun usage. Exceptions, in general, drive students crazy. But tell the students that they sh...
Level: elementary
Age: 10-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 5
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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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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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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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Essay Guidelines 2
A list of the basic parts of the standard 5-paragraph essay with an example essay attached on the power and problems of media. Includes 5 possible introductions demonstrating the 5 types of introduction most commonly used: anecdotes, examples, questions, surprising facts/statistics, and expert testimony.
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: article
Downloads: 37
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COIK Lesson
COIK stands for "Clear Only If Known" which is, unfortunately, how many of us feel when someone gives us poor directions and then says, "You can�t miss it." To improve my students� direction-giving abilities, I tell them they must defuse a bomb by phone. I put the students back-to-back, and the expert who is supposedly on the other side of the ci...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 13
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Subject/Verb Agreement Checkers
Grammar meets checkers. The students can only jump opponents� checkers if there is subject/verb agreement between the pieces involved in the jump. For example, a checker with "he" on it can jump a checker with "writes" on it, but not a checker with "write" on it. Students will have to pay close attention to any s�s they see.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 25
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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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Intonation Practice
A handout to walk students through making recordings that help them understand how stress and emotion can change the meaning of a sentence.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: worksheet
Downloads: 5
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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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