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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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