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• Short, Human-Interest Articles for Extensive Reading: # 14: "Why It’s Hard to Apologize”

(This posting includes a handout LINK AT THE END OF THIS POST which you are welcome to use with your students.) *

Last week, Emily took her driver’s test but failed. At dinner, she told her family but asked them all to promise not to tell anyone because she felt embarrassed. Yesterday, a friend, Jay, said to her, “Your sister, Kara, told me that you fa...

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• Fun Activity To Reduce Irritating Classroom Behavior

(This posting includes a handout which you are welcome to use with your students.)

 (This is a revision to an earlier posting: Enjoyable and Effective Awareness Activity for Changing ESL Students Classroom Behavior)

Most ESL students don’t do goofy things just to irritate the teacher. Usually, they are una...

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• Don’t Wastes Students’ Energy Teaching Certain Types of Vocabulary Words in Reading Class (Revisited)

“Radiance,” “strike a deal,” “gorgeous” “ecosystem.” In my 40 years of teaching academic ESL, I’ve probably seen these word in a reading passage at most only once or twice.  And I’ve never seen a student use them in a writing task.  And yet, these words were  included in several vocabulary exercises in a textbook, and students were asked to wri...

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• Motivating Students Through Flow Experiences

It was a teacher-experience that I would have paid good money for. My students had been working individually. With one minute left in the class, I softly told them that it was time to stop for the day. Some of them sort of jumped when they heard my voice and looked at the clock. Then a few of them slowly started to pack up their stuff. But most of them continued to re...

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• Short, Human-Interest Articles for Extensive Reading: # 13: "The Types of People Who Drive Loud Cars And Motorcycl...

(This posting includes a handout LINK AT THE END OF THIS POST which you are welcome to use with your students.) *

You and a friend are sitting in an outdoor café next to a street lined with stores and shops. Suddenly, you can’t hear your friend because a car with a loud muffler drives past. After a minute, you are able...

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