The pages of the book were old to the point of being discolored and I quickly sat down at the table to go through the contents. I pulled out the book as the teachers debated who would get to use the Scrabble game that Friday. That meant that someone - or many people - had used it a great deal! It was nestled between two glossy grammar books on the bookcase of the teacher's room and what first caught by eye was that the cover was missing. I have always been fascinated by old, worn books so it was nothing out of the ordinary that, some years ago in the teacher's room of the ESL school where I was teaching, I noticed such a book. TEAPOT Word Game - What Every Teacher Should Know! Her most recent paper 9/11 and the Chaotic Evolution of American English has been published in the latest edition of Language, Society and Culture, an Australian journal. In her spare time, she enjoys writing, taekwondo and is also working toward her Master of Education. Vocabulary Activities by Lisa Indiana 2-3Ĭatherine Schandl taught ESL for many years and is currently the Program Director of a private school in Toronto, Canada. Tutorial - High Frequency Words (for students who struggle) from the Teachers.Net Chatboard How To Use Anchoring for Accelerated Learning by Stelios PerdiosĪn Art Historian on Children in the Museum by Erick WilberdingĬhina ESL, An Industry Run Amuck? by Niu Qiang & Martin WolffĮditor's epicks for April by Kathleen Alape CarpenterĮgg Hatching - A PowerPoint Presentation by Mechele Usseryĭirection for Teachers of Creative Writing by Dan Lukiv

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