Right now I'm having a wee panic as I realize that I do not have anything planned for tomorrow's classes. I thought I did, but I just picked up the notebook that contains my teaching notes from last Tuesday's classes, and read this:
Got a laugh at the beginning when I banged into a desk and said 'Ouch,' but otherwise not much reaction to anything. Next week: try stabbing myself.
I don't remember writing that, but it's my handwriting, so I suppose I did. The thing is, I don't really want to go with this plan. I'd prefer something less painful.
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I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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4 comments:
You could get one of those fake knives that they use in the movies.
Teach them how to tell the difference between -ed & -ing adjectives.
Or how to not say "Fine thank you and you?" like Pavlovs dogs.
Maybe in the spirit of the christmas season you could teach them phrases like
'do you rent rooms by the hour' or
'are those mirrors in your pants...because i can see myself in them'
:P
Kenju: I actually thought of that, but didn't have time to go shopping. :-)
Contamination: That was done at the beginning of semester. It's one of the first things I teach.
Torrygirl: Erm . . . are you trying to get me fired with your bright ideas?
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