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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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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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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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Definition Chart Game
An important skill that ESL students need to acquire that is related to vocabulary is the ability to define words. In fact, they need to be much better at this than native speakers of a language since ESL students will more often find themselves in a situation where they don�t know a word they need to use. If your students can explain their probl...
Level: intermediate
Age: 12-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 8
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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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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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Blank Story Board with Lord of the Flies Example
To help students learn to pull the most important events out of story or prepare to write their own stories, story boards are quite useful. Here is a blank story board and a completed example for the book The Lord of the Flies. On the example, I limited my drawings to stick figures so the students see this is something they are capable of.
Level: elementary
Age: 5-100
Type: activity-card
Downloads: 81
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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