Hey everyone- new member here.

I'm a former JET looking to go back and work as an English teacher.

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for the Amity essay of:
"Why I Want to Teach Children and Live in Japan"

What are they looking for? Is this just to check grammar and composition skills or should I put more time into it? I really want to ( Read more... )

Hi, I'm a Russian teacher of English. I've been teaching for a while now and would like to share the materials I created for my students with other teachers. I've been accumulating card games, grammar exercises and other activities in my journal. If anyone is interested, I'd love to hear comments and/or constructive criticism :)

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Hallo! I'm teaching four classes at a summer camp for the next five weeks, and to date my most challenging group has been the 10-12 year olds. They are so widely varied (from none-at-all to near-fluent) that I have had to throw out all of the planning I had already done, as it didn't really serve any of them very well. Now I'm struggling to come up ( Read more... )

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What are your favorite ESL games for teenagers?

Question: does anyone have any knowledge about teaching English in Latin American countries? Getting jobs in Asia sounds relatively easy and safe; I was wondering if the same could be said about South America. I was thinking specifically about the southern cone areas, like Argentina, Chile or maybe Peru, but that's just off the top of my head ( Read more... )

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http://sensanome.livejournal.com/358890.html

Can anyone suggest exercises/activities to work on ingrained pronunciation mistakes?

I'm thinking specifically of an advanced student who pronounces R with a heavy German accent.

I'd appreciate practical ideas that would work with a 1-1 student in an office.

Thanks.