The English Corner

I ran across this site and thought the images could be useful. They offer four different variations for usage. It is probably best suited for low beginner to high beginner.

I’m just going to throw my two cents worth in here while I’m at it.
When you are teaching, be sure to include the tactile/kinesthetic learners.

You can do this in two ways -

1. tactile variation: let the students color/trace/cut out the images
2. kinesthetic variation: have the students act it out

Both ways help the students acquire “muscle memory” which helps
in the acquisition process. (It lowers the affective filter too.)

Auditory learners may benefit from not only hearing and repeating the target vocabulary a few times, but it may help if you can search around
and find a sound bite to go with the image as well. For example,
here is a link to a site that has a boatload of sound bites to choose from.

• http://www.soundsnap.com/

This link will take you to a page of toothbrushing sounds.

• http://www.soundsnap.com/search/audio/brushing+teeth/score

FYI – Soundsnap only gives your 5 free downloads a month. This site is free all the time.

• http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/

Click here for a link to a website that has royalty free photos.

Now, let’s take it a step further. Why not turn it into a game?
Put up three pictures on the board. Then play the sound bite and
have some fun letting them guess which one it is!

introduction

• http://www.eslsite.com/esl_images/index.html

instructions

• http://www.eslsite.com/esl_images/intructions.html

page 1

• http://www.eslsite.com/esl_images/beginners_verbs/index/index.html

page 2

• http://www.eslsite.com/esl_images/beginners_verbs/index/index2.html

What’s an oxymoron? To me, the name conjures up an image of a dumb ox. What does it mean to you?

Really it is just a fancy definition for words that seem contradictory when put together, like pretty ugly.

Merriam Webster definition

• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron

Oxymorons from A to Z & by category.

• http://english-zone.com/index.php?page=1098&pid=82
• http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_example.html
• http://www.guy-sports.com/months/jokes_oxymoron.htm
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/a-i.shtml
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/j-r.shtml
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/s-z.shtml
• http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html
• http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_oxymoronology.html

Lesson plus the printable activity

• http://www.eslsite.com/rd/Vocabulary/oxymoron.html

Colorful white board flip chart

• http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConResource.965

Cute cartoon

• http://community.livejournal.com/e_s_l/634.html

Examples of Oxymorons in Poems & Poetry

• http://www.examples-help.org.uk/oxymoron.htm
• http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/O/oxymoron.htm

Lesson plans

• http://www.floridatechnet.org/GED/LessonPlans/LanguageArtsReading/LAR%20Lesson%2011%20Oymorons.pdf

Short article

• http://www.thenewstoday.info/2006/11/08/oxymoron.html

And now for something completely different…
Do you speak English?

• http://www.americantesol.com/tesolcafe/play.php?vid=1529

Looking for a virtually inexhaustible resource for ESL conversation questions? Well, look no farther than here. Our good friends at The Internet TESOL Journal have a large database of questions. They are alphabetically organized by topics such as – annoying things, tipping and major American holidays.

The wonderful people over at ESL Gold have a page that is dedicated to Phrases for Conversation which are broken down into the following levels: Low Beginning, High Beginning, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate & Advanced. What makes this site stand out above the others is that it provides audio. The speakers are native North American speakers and they speak slow enough for the ELL (English Language Learner) to pick up on what they are saying, but not so mind numbingly slow that you want to bang your head against the wall.  Also, you can tell the narrators are some what professional because the inflection is in the right place, even if it does sound somewhat forced on some of the examples. This would be a great site for Chinese teachers of English to brush up on their English skills, assign as homework or use as part of a language lab.