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Are you looking for a quick and easy way to create worksheets that look professionally designed? If you've ever taken the time to manually create a crossword puzzle about a topic for your students, then chances are you've only done it once. The time spent on creating such things could probably be better spent elsewhere. However, if you...

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If you've ever tried to add phonetic symbols to your worksheets, you may know how difficult that can be. Instead of writing them in by hand or cutting and pasted each as separate images, there is a simple solution...

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If you've ever taught small classes, Business English or otherwise, you might have encountered a similar problem as this one:

Dear ESL Lesson Plan,

I have a small Business English class that is particularly difficult to plan for (two young women & their older boss who is one of the CEO's of their company). There is one young woman who comes regularly but the other two students are inconsistent. There are activities that I want to do with the students, but...

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If you're interested in making your classroom more learner-centered, you may have already thought about placing more responsibility on your students in regards to error correction.

Here's a simple way ...

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One of the newer pieces of technology coming in to the ESL classroom is the electronic whiteboard. At many schools, this is becoming as common as the cassette recorders. Of course, there are plenty of other schools ...

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This month's question is coming from Heather, a teacher who is teaching Korean students over the Internet.

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One of the best lessons I ever learned was that lessons should be taught according to the students' needs and not just to the lesson plan that was written. In other words, your lessons might run longer or shorter than planned. If it runs longer, it may just be a matter of assigning some of the work as homework, cutting some of the activities, or continuing them in the next class. If it runs short, however, then ...

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Having a dictionary to hand when preparing classes can be very useful. Unfortunately, a heavy dictionary is one of the last things many people think of to pack when embarking on a trip abroad to teach ESL, especially now that airlines are starting to tighten up their weight restriction policies.

Fortunately, few schools are in the same position they were in ten years ago ...

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I'm curious to know how many hours a week you teach on average. While many university contracts include a maximum of 10-12 hours of teaching per week, quite a few private language schools ...

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This month's question is from Dan and is about getting a job in China.

Ms Rueckert,

I read your articles on the Internet and was impressed with your experience in China. My wife and I are drawing near retirement (early next year) and are looking for meaningful ways to continue to make contributions to Education. I have a BSEd, a MA in Psychology, and a MS in Logistics. My wife has a BA in Psychology and a MSEd. We both have 10 years plus of College Faculty and Administration experience now.