Burnaby TESOL Class Fall 2018

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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...

Hey all. Thanks so much for your understanding tonight. I made it to the hospital by 6:50pm, and stayed with my mom and brother until around 8:30 pm. The nurse said that he was mostly out of 'danger'. He was very restless when we first arrived, but by the time we left he was sleeping soundly (snoring). I will follow up with my parents and perhaps the doctor tomorrow morning. Thanks again for your understanding and gracious concern. See you soon. Marc

Hi everyone, Hope you all had a good weekend. The post I have shared with you is Indra Nooyi. She is a woman who I deeply admire and is a woman of substance. Nooyi is the CEO of pepsi and has also been among the worlds 100 most influential women. The 5 C's that she is talking about in this video has helped me to change my outlook towards life and has helped me in my own personal growth. I hope you all enjoy this video.

Hey everyone. I'm really enjoying my "Teachers Institute on Parliamentary Democracy" which started today in Victoria. Here I am enjoying some down time relaxing! Just kidding! I was posing for this picture. Because we are not having class tomorrow night, I would like you to watch a video of your choice from TED. If you are familiar with Ted Talks, you'll know what I mean. If, however, you have never watched a TED Talk, google "ted talks" on your computer or phone, and you will be asked to choose a topic. One of my favourite TED speakers is Sir Ken Robinson. You may want to check out this talk,  at https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley Anyway. When we meet next week, I will ask you to share what you watched and what you got out of it. Until next week! Enjoy!

Hello everyone,  It took me some time to figure out how to post on Blogger (Duhhh) Sorry about that guys. FYI, we need to go to www.blogger.com to post new topics, don't go to (http://burnabytesol2018.blogspot.com) directly, it won't work. Today I would like to share a video with you guys about  "How to learn a new language in shortest amount of time" (Yes I rephrased his title, does this word "rephrase" even exist?) Anyway, the reason I'm sharing this video is because: A, this is my own experience as well when I go through my English learning process. B, I wanted to share a general idea with you(especially my native English speaker fellows), as an "using English as second language" person, how we acquire a foreign language. I believe we can pick one thing or two from this video and teach our students as well.  Let me know what you think. Beside the video, I wanted to ask you guys if you are interested in joinin...

Great news class that I wanted to share. Linda Vanderheide, my supervisor whom you met, has confirmed that those of you with existing valid criminal record checks can use them for our practicum. In her recent email to me, she said, "  Yes, TESOL students with active Criminal Records checks can use them with our school.  However they have to use the SHARING FORM.  Here is a link: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/ content/safety/crime- prevention/criminal-record- check/sharing-results So that is great news for our class. If you have any questions about this process, we can talk more about it soon. I have never used this sharing link before. But I will do the best to answer questions and help you out.  Marc

Good Afternoon Everyone☺, I hope you are enjoying the long weekend and of course the beautiful sunshine! Today I would like to share one of the activities that I always do with Level 3 and 4 students which they really enjoy. Since I am a big fan of games, I always include them in my lesson plans.The main focus of this game is to teach them  new vocabularies for " Physical Appearance". It is called "Guess Who" and the students need to guess their opponent's mystery person before their opponents guess theirs! Depending on their English level they should ask correct questions using present simple  and present continuous tense . They can also use the prompts on the second page and I will also teach them new expressions about game playing which you can find them on the second page as well.  I hope you like it ! P.S. Blogger doesn't let me attach word document and the only way I could do it is using a google drive and share the link. Please let me know if ...

Blog Assignment#1 Hey all. Here is your first blog assignment....when you finally get connected! I'd like you post a picture of yourself. And then under the picture, I'd like you to write a sentence or two about yourself. This is another way for us to get to know each other better. Week 1 was great! I really enjoyed our first couple classes, and Debbie told me she enjoyed her class with you too. See you soon. Marc

Welcome to our new class blog. We will use this blog for a variety of purposes. Several include: Giving you information about upcoming classes and discussion topics.  Posting additional learning resources.  Teaching and learning about using online resources.  So it is important that you regularly check this blog for these updates.  Each student will take a turn moderating the blog as well. This will entail viewing the content posted by fellow classmates, as well as posting some resources of your own. In this way we will create an online resource "tool kit", an online portfolio of sorts.  I look forward to seeing how this blog evolves over the next few months!