Burnaby TESOL Class Fall 2018

Hi all, I hope you are well. Tonight, Rae is coming in to guest teach. She's a former colleague of mine who has taught TESOL and is currently working with VCC downtown. I'm excited for her to come in and work with our class. Please give her a warm welcome! I'll see you tomorrow night. Marc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbDeoPJ6sPc Hi everyone. I thought this would be a great video to teach ESL students in Canada. The police powers in Canada may be quite different from whichever country the students traveled from. Therefore, it is important to be aware should students have any police interactions. enjoy Cooper

Hi everyone I hope you are having a great weekend! When the program began, I was researching online about how a teen, Tim Doner, used technology to aid his fluency and accuracy with languages with authentic exposure. For example, the teenager in the clip uses the Internet to draw elements of blended learning before engaging in conversation with others using the foreign language he acquired. In addition, he would also elicit responses for pronunciation by posting YouTube clips of himself and then gets the feedback from native speakers in the chosen foreign language. If you are short for time to watch the whole clip, his learning strategy is in minutes 4:15 to 6:00. I hope you enjoy the clip! https://youtu.be/Km9-DiFaxpU

Hi everyone, For this week, I am thinking about using games in our classrooms with ESL students. Are they effective or waste of time? From my point of view and I am sure many of you have the same idea, games always work. Recycling some of our papers on pedagogy methods, games direct students towards more acquiring the language . Isn't it awesome? What I want to share with you is the game called " Simon says ". I think it is a good one for lower levels and encourages students to practice their vocabulary, grammar, and also say  a complete sentence. You can also adjust it for practicing different tenses; for example, you can ask students to make their sentences in past for the game. I found it interesting when I was navigating internet for ESL teaching experiences. You can read the page by going to the  link below and you can find 9 more games, which you may be familiar with some of them; https://www.gooverseas.com/blog/10-best-games-esl-teachers#simonsays ...

Hi everyone, I am taking the blog for this week if everyone agrees with that. Is there any objection? Noooo, great:0)

Good morning all! I will send out an email to you to confirm that you have seen this, but tonight I will ask you to spend some time writing at home. I think many of you/us can use a night to to reflect on some of these key concepts. A couple weeks ago I passed out some questions from a previous quiz that I conducted with my class. Tonight I want you to write about two (2) of the questions below.  1.    What is the difference between accuracy and fluency? Discuss how these relate to English Language Learners. 2.    What is the difference between acquiring language and learning language? Why should teachers consider both in preparing lessons?  3.    Which reading strategies (pre-reading and during reading) would you use in the situation provided below? Why? 4.    What is meant by communicative instruction? Why is this method preferred? I will ask you to email me your response later tonight. I will look at these ...

Hi Everyone!! The sun is out and hope you're enjoying the beeeeooootiful long weekend!  This is a topic that's been in the back of my mind since the course began and a couple of things I've watched and experienced lately have really got me thinking a little bit more about this and how I would handle situations such as those as a teacher. The world is a mess right now and tensions and sensitivities seem to be at an extreme level, especially in classrooms.  As teachers, how would you deal with issues and conflicts that arise about politics, sexuality, equality, political correctness, mental health etc. in your classrooms?  Even though we're ESL teachers, I'm quite certain that we will most likely come across some of these things at some point when teaching. I found this article that I thought was quite good.  Take a read, but I'd also like to get your thoughts and ideas.  https://bento.cdn.pbs.org/hostedbento-prod/filer_public/SBAN/Images/Classrooms/Ten%20...

'Sup, everyone! I can take the blog for this week, 'kay?  See you tomorrow!

Happy Saturday friends, Here is a video clip on teaching connotation and denotation. Hope you will find it useful :) see you Tuesday. Michele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbMfnbTa4

Great class last night! I enjoyed going through some resources that I have used, and I hope you will take some time to play with them. These resources really do take time to figure out, and the more you play with them, the easier they get to use. Please play some more with these sites. Some of these sites are now "pay per use" whereas when I first started using them, they were free. So if you don't want to pay or use them, don't worry about it. Just go and look at something else. Have fun! Google Forms: creating surveys, questionnaires, and quizzes youtube: create playlists of your favourite educational videos (and music) Glogster (edu.glogster.com): making digital posters; creative Mixbook (mixbook.com): making online scrapbooks animoto (animoto.com): making slide shows of pictures better than photostory sumopaint (www.sumopaint.com): like photoshop but online popplet (www.popplet.com): creating virtual mind maps history pin (www.historypin.com): edmod...