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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Affix Dominoes
Expanding students vocabulary is not simply a process of teaching them new words. You also need to teach word roots and affixes (both prefixes and suffixes.) Learning what affixes and roots mean and which affixes and roots can be joined enables students to understand words they never studied. My affix dominoes game will increase students familia...
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 11
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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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Expressing Anger Lesson Plan
A lesson plan on anger and all the resources you need to teach it. Includes an interesting short story, a funny newspaper article, roleplay prompts, a simulation to show how easily serious misunderstandings can occur, and homework assignments.
Level: intermediate
Age: 10-100
Type: lesson-plan
Downloads: 30
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