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The show starts off with unseasonable weather and a circus but moves quickly into this show’s theme, the present continuous.
Matt and Mark go over:
presenting the target language orally
why teach the present continuous early on in your curriculum
teaching and explaining the grammar using only English
forming questions and negatives
Teaching short answers, or that is […]
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Matt has added some new simple easy songs for 1-3 year old classes.
Mark and Matt cover creating thematic units. This show covers what a thematic unit is, what the goals of a thematic unit should be, and what you need to get your thematic unit off the ground.
Mark covers the city, food […]
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Mark has added some phonics games for students at Fun Fonix.com.
This show discusses MES-English.com’s curriculum for young learners. This is the second part of teaching without a textbook or teaching oral English only. For the first episode of this check here.
The curriculum covers core sections:
content - vocabulary
target language - phrases, questions, speech […]
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This show Mark explains some new features to the free word search maker at Tools for Educators. It really makes a word search a worksheet but keeps it fun. Matt has opened a new website Kids English Books.com and there you can find simple stories to download or use online.
This week’s show […]
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This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors. Matt has a new Skidamarink Song up on Free ABC Songs and Mark posted a new book to the Fun Fonix website.
This week’s show covers the ‘do’ verbs. We discuss:
teaching the concept of ‘do’ as […]
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This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors. Matt has put up some new videos to match the Dream English songs. Some of the videos have ‘live performances and some utelize images. Please check them out.
Mark has added some worksheet makers to Fun Fonix.com. You […]
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This show discusses MES-English.com’s curriculum for young learners. It’s the first steps for teaching without a course book or for teachers who are thrown into a teaching situation where there is no set curriculum or textbook.
The curriculum covers core sections:
content - vocabulary
target language - phrases, questions, speech acts …
running content - more […]
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Welcome back for Season 3 of ESL Teacher Talk! If you’re new to ETT, then … just Welcome!
In Season 3 we have a new co-host, Matt of Dream English.com. With Matt and the other ETT co-hosts, we hope to cover some smaller areas of teaching English. We will be focusing […]
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This is the end of Season 2 here at ESL Teacher Talk. This week we talk about the communicative approach.
We cover:
what the communicative approach is
the theory behind the communicative approach and what it’s supposed to do
the 5 main points of the communicative approach
how the communicative approach can be used in your lessons
what […]
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Total Physical Response (TPR) is a methodology made famous by James Ashner. It’s teaching style based on kinestetic learning. Teachers speak and students respond in some manner physically.
We cover:
what TPR is
the theory behind TPR and what it’s supposed to do
how TPR can be used in your lessons
what are the main benefits, claims, […]