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Bridging the gap
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Everybody loves a good mystery
This article describes a speaking activity designed to encourage students to ask yes/no questions. It is an engaging activity that students enjoy playing.
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Real audio for real listening
A How-to article that explains methods of incorporating streaming audio into ESL listening and speaking courses, this article describes the rationale for including streaming audio and suggests a number of ways to include it into class syllabi.
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Short stories to enhance paraphrase and circumlocution skills
A wonderful activity that incorporates reading and speaking, this article explains how use short stories in conversation.
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Solomon's ESL Classroom
This article and demonstration on using the biblical proverbs to teach ESL speaking, highlights the possibilities of using biblical materials in ESL and demonstrates these possibilities with the proverbs of Solomon.
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The circumlocution game
This article describes a vocabulary activity involving circumlocution.
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The inner workbench in the ESL classroom
Based on a presentation at JALT 1997, this article describes using the imagination to develop full sensory stories. After listening and generating the stories, students share their imaginary episode with others in the class.
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Using imagination to enlighten your conversation class
This article highlights a speaking activity for ESL students. This question and answer activity focuses on the use of the imagination to generate a fictional story.
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Using Microsoft Word to generate computerized tests
This article describes the advantages of using automated materials and demonstrates making automated materials from MS Word.
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