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The Ultimate Checklist for Adult and Teen ESOL Language Learners
- By Steve McCrea
- Published 01/25/2009
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Steve McCrea
I've traveled to over 45 countries and I've almost three years in other countries. What can we learn from each other?
I've developed a pronunciation system called "It Sounds Like" and I hope people will avoid using IPA (backwards C, a+e, upside-down V). Let's talk! Write to freeEnglishLessons@gmail.com. My Orkut and Facebook accounts are both linked to FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com.
I am a teacher in a school in Fort Lauderdale.
I have written some articles for Teacher Training -- look for them here.
http://www.VisualAndActive.com is my training website: YES, you can hire my colleagues and we can prepare an EXCELLENT long-term training program for teachers.
SKYPE - SteveEnglishTeacher
On MSN Messenger I'm called SteveEnglishTeacher
YouTube accounts: FreeEnglishLessons and Mistermath
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http://www.freeenglishlessons.com/articlelive/categories/For-Teachers/Articles-to-Improve-Our-Teaching/Learn how to teach English as a Second Language
http://FreeEnglishLessons.com
Learn how to be a volunteer ambassador and promote cultural understanding
BuildingInternationalBridges.org
Learn more about Travel -- travel and unravel!
http://RoadLovers.com
Here are some videos and CDs that I have created;
Visual and Active Method of Improving Your Vocabulary (Get Ahead!)
Put Something Useful on that iPod
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Plan for EXTRA WORK this week ______ (date) Name: _____________________
My GOAL this week:
Speaking
__ Telephone skills
__ Conversation (small talk)
__ Describe a city
__ Complain
__ Ask for directions
__ Give directions (with N, S, E, W)
__ Give directions (“go to the post office, it’s on the right, next to a 24-hour restaurant called the Floridian”)
__ Give tips to a new student
__ Ask another student for an email address or account name on a social network
__ Ask a Korean about Cyworld. Ask a Thai guy about Hi5. Ask a Brazilian about Orkut. Ask a European about Facebook (or______).
__ Recommend a cause or an application or a community (Orkut) to the teacher and to another student
__ Call the teacher and give a tip or ask for a tip
__ Find a photo and talk about it to the class or to another student
__ Your idea: ___________________
Grammar
__ Find a difficult part of grammar and learn the rule (or try a TOEFL grammar test)
__ Teach the rule to the class
__ Explain the use of punctuation
___ Your idea: __________________
__ Look at a grammar web site
Vocabulary
New Words:
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Confusing Words
Example: quit, quiet, quite
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__ Find a family of words and teach them to the class (tree, huma body, cow parts, car, tools, office items, parts of a hospital)
Writing: SteveEnglishTeacher@hotmail.com
__ Write a letter to the editor and complain (then offer a suggestion to fix the problem)
__ Write a letter to Obama and make a suggestion
__ Write an article (your idea) ________
__ Write a composition (describe your city, tell me about a problem, describe a museum or a restaurant, review a movie, write about your favorite story, translate a story from your language to English)
__ TRANSLATE an article into English for a local magazine or web site
__ TRANSLATE an article into your language for a local web site or magazine
Listening
__ how do you want to practice listening this week?
__ ESL-Lab.com
__ NPR.org and search for “This I Believe”
__ Your idea: _____________________
Reading
__ Visit STUDENT GROUP on EmbassyCES.com
__ Visit a newspaper online. Raise your hand and say, “Did you hear what happened in [Germany choose a country]?” Then explain.
DO AT LEAST 5 things on this list and get a prize from the teacher.
Send suggestions for improving this list to FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com
Article by Steve McCrea, http://www.FreeEnglishLessons.com