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MES curriculum – A non-textbook approach part 2

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Listen to the show. Mark has added some phonics games for students at Fun Fonix.com. This show discusses MES-English.com‘s curriculum for young learners. This is the second part of teaching without a textbook or teaching oral English only.  For the first episode of this check here. The curriculum covers core sections: content – vocabulary target […]


Explaining activities just using English

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Listen to the show. This show Mark explains some new features to the free word search maker at Tools for Educators.  It really makes a word search a worksheet but keeps it fun.  Matt has opened a new website Kids English Books.com and there you can find simple stories to download or use online. This […]


Teaching ‘do’ verbs

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Listen to the show. This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors. Matt has a new Skidamarink Song up on Free ABC Songs and Mark posted a new book to the Fun Fonix website. This week’s show covers the ‘do’ verbs. We discuss: teaching the concept of ‘do’ […]


Teaching the verb ‘be’

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Listen to the show. This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors.  Matt has put up some new videos to match the Dream English songs.  Some of the videos have ‘live performances and some utelize images.  Please check them out. Mark has added some worksheet makers to Fun […]


MES curriculum – A non-textbook approach part 1

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Listen to the show. This show discusses MES-English.com‘s curriculum for young learners.  It’s the first steps for teaching without a course book or for teachers who are thrown into a teaching situation where there is no set curriculum or textbook. The curriculum covers core sections: content – vocabulary target language – phrases, questions, speech acts […]


Season 3 Premiere – Dream English

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Listen to the show. Welcome back for Season 3 of ESL Teacher Talk!  If you’re new to ETT, then … just Welcome! 🙂 In Season 3 we have a new co-host, Matt of Dream English.com.  With Matt and the other ETT co-hosts, we hope to cover some smaller areas of teaching English.  We will be […]


The Communicative Approach

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

Listen to the show. This is the end of Season 2 here at ESL Teacher Talk.  This week we talk about the communicative approach. We cover: what the communicative approach is the theory behind the communicative approach and what it’s supposed to do the 5 main points of the communicative approach how the communicative approach […]


Teaching Methodologies: Total Physical Response

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Listen to the show. Total Physical Response (TPR) is a methodology made famous by James Ashner.  It’s teaching style based on kinestetic learning.  Teachers speak and students respond in some manner physically. We cover: what TPR is the theory behind TPR and what it’s supposed to do how TPR can be used in your lessons […]


Exam Preparation

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Listen to the show. This week’s show we welcome John Marks from www.eltgames.com and www.langwichscool.com and we discuss exam preparation courses. In this show we discuss some ideas on how to organize and exam prep course, what are some key points to include, how to maintain motivation, some ideas for the interview sections and more. […]


Teaching Methodologies – Suggestopedia

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Listen to the show. This week’s show is almost the end of our teaching methodolgies series. Today we offer … Suggestodepia We cover: what suggestopedia is how does a suggestopedia lesson run the principles of the method what are the main benefits, claims, and criticisms of the method We’d definitely like to hear what you […]