Site Map: May-August 2009 http://kalinago.blogspot.com

Teaching English, Conversation Lessons: general tips & full plans

If I won €10, if I won €100 (teaching conditionals)
Life is no bed of roses (disappointment)
Murder of a Superhero (drama activity)
A conversation about death and dying (taboo subjects)

Smartphone Meetings (lessons using the phone)
The walls that divide us (video lesson)
The Business of Twitter (Business English)
Water Words (Financial English)
The God in Marketing (Marketing and Business English)

Teacher Training: Teaching English as a Foreign Language

The Dogma of Dogme
Drama in the Business English Classroom
Teaching Advanced EFL Learners
Keeping Language Learners Learning

Motivation in Adult EFL
Controlling the Conversation (speaking skills record sheet)
Use it, don’t let them lose it (vocabulary)
Teacher Progress Check: how are you doing?

Teacher Training: Tech Tips

Using delicious to store, save and bookmark
Using google for alerts and rss feeds
Being on LinkedIn
Connecting with teachers on Twitter
Becoming an ELT blogger

Professional Development: TEFL conferences

IATEFL scholarships, deadline 18 September 2009
BESIG conference, November 2009 Poznan, Poland

Igniting Passion: The She-in-ELT

Help me make a definitive guide (the call for guest-pieces)

Intro: Gavin Dudeney’s Sexy Redux
1. Karen Schweitzer on Deborah Healey
2. Vicki Hollett on Cristina Whitecross

Misc, Musings, Thought-pieces and Random Rants

In the space of 140 characters (twitter)
On e-wills and last testaments (social-networking)
Thoughts on Friendship (social-networking)
The problem with e-books (modern life)
Open letter to the English Language Institutions (technology in education)
Where are all the horseshoe makers now (technology in education)
How to find a job in TEFL (where to)

The ELT Blogosphere and EFL Twitterverse

What is Beltfree?
8 Great ELT blogs & the stars of my blogroll
Gr8 edu-tweets
Summary May 2009
Summary June 2009
Summary August 2009

Lesson ideas, Plans and Quick Tips…

Business English

• Using slideshare to teach business English
• Code of ethics for CEOs

ESP Financial

• Interview with Rouibini and Taleb
• Code of ethics for CEOs
• Company secrets

ESP IT

• The history and future of the internet
• The Business of Twitter

ESP Other

• Car industry, automotive English
• Energy

General English

• Where’s the love y’all (2)
• The S’jobs of motivation
• Politics, power and the media

Teaching Speaking

Got students who repetitively make the same mistakes over and over and over?
Read this posting: Dealing with fossilized errors

Is ego affecting your students’ abilities to communicate?
Pride in the classroom

Get your students talking about the things they’re interested in talking about.
Student-centered teaching practices

Does learner style and intelligence affect students’ communication abilities?
Your style, my style

How I got into student-centered teaching, kind of a travelogue:
Personally speaking

How often do you use anger in your classroom? Probably never, right. But is this wise?
How can you get your students expressing themselves fluently if they don’t know the vocabulary to go with this? The price of water in airports.

Tech Tips for TEFL teachers

• Nervous about using technology in your classroom? Don’t be, we were all where you are standing now. Go on, be brave.

• A great way to find authentic, up-to-date material is by looking at what the Business bloggers are writing about so hit them up for top tips!

• Probably my (and my students’) favorite source of good clean presentations to inspire discussion is slideshare.Slide on over to learn more.

• Want to give your Business English students a treat? Have a look at the dynamic wordle program.
  

• Backbreaking bag of books and realizing you’d better get yourself a lighter laptop? Have a read through this posting on toys for teachers.

• Want a simpler version of the news on the TV for your students? Have you ever heard of the CNN student news?

• Want to be creative but worried about violating copyright rules? There is a solution & you too can become uncommonly creative.

• Found a brilliant video but unfortunately your students don’t have internet in their office? You can download and take it in!

• Looking for a way to save and store all the useful worksheets and activities you find on the internet? Use delicious.

Disasters in the news are great opportunities to get your students talking.

Whenever a major crisis hits the news media, words and facts fly out and students begin embedding statistics about the event in their brains.

READ MORE here

Do you use news articles with your English language students?

Do your prefer using newspapers or do you like searching for articles on-line?

READ MORE here

Recent entries from my blog, http://kalinago.blogspot.com

Back to classes so soon?
Back to energizing, inspiring and motivating, getting our students talking in English…

Did you just sigh?

Tsk, tsk.

Here’s a great freebie for your first class back
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Have you realized how poignant that old favorite, sung by Abba way back when, is?

Ideal for taking into class with you at the beginning of term.

Here’s a quick little exercise that you can print off and drag in as an ice-breaker or warmer.
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My student Markus called in the early afternoon. ‘I didn’t have time to do my presentation‘ he gushed.

‘Markus,’ I said ‘Go on over to Slideshare, find a presentation in your field, download that and bring it in. I need your English, not specifically your slides.’

He did. READ MORE here

photocredits:
Paul keleher, fire poi, www.flickr.com
art_es_anna, felicitaciones 2009, www.flickr.com
ZachKlein, comedian, www.flickr.com

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