Comments for English Advantage

Comment on Culture Shock by kcwyse

kcwyse — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:55:50 +0000

Hi I have also just purchased the culture shock lesson and can’t seem to find it. I bought it under my husband’s paypal account. Please help! Thanks.

Comment on Robot Tutor by walton

walton — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:01:20 +0000

Well, at the risk of being a nag, “She aint say nothing” is confusing grammar.
But I’m not a great programmer, so her intelligence is a bit lacking

Comment on Robot Tutor by grrr

grrr — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 03:33:20 +0000

This robot is sucky! She aint say nothing but “I didnt get that” grrr.

Comment on pTypeConverter by walton

walton — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:55:40 +0000

Cool. I’m looking forward to trying it out! Thanks for letting me know. Your plugin was essential when I finally embraced custom post types.

Comment on pTypeConverter by Brian

Brian — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 05:12:07 +0000

Thanks for the review! I have updated the plugin to resolve the issues described in the post about not being able to filter out the non-public post types, and allow you the ability to easily filter the list to show the posts that you want to find more easily. Please check out the new version, I hope that it provides you with a better user experience!

Brian

Comment on Mystery Unit by walton

walton — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:25:05 +0000

Cool! Thanks for the comments. No one has ever actually let me know what happened when they used my materials so this is really exciting for me.

Comment on Mystery Unit by Louise

Louise — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:47:45 +0000

Hey Walton,

The class went really well, thanks! It was an Upper Intermediate class and I think the level was just right for them.

The Stolen Song reading activity was the biggest success, I think! The students did a great job of nutting out the mystery! And it was good for introducing some vocabulary they hadn’t seen before.

The Perfect Crime clue-by-clue was good, but I did it early in the class, before people had relaxed and were comfortable I think and the speaking was a little stilted. I think this also would have worked better if I had more than one group, so there was a bit of group competition (I had only three students, so only one group!). I combined this with a presentation and separate worksheet on speculative modals and it complemented them nicely.

I didn’t do the writing activity, as I was worried about the difficulty and how to “model the text” before letting them write… but in hindsight I think it would have been good. My students were more advanced than I expected and moved through things very quickly and there would have been heaps of time for this!

Thanks again for the materials and the inspiration!
Louise

Comment on Mystery Unit by walton

walton — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:31:08 +0000

Wow! I’m so proud (and slightly intimidated to be a part of that)! Good luck and do leave me a comment on how it goes and what you did with the materials!

Comment on Mystery Unit by Louise

Louise — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:29:24 +0000

Thank you so much, this is a great lesson!
I love that it includes reading, writing and speaking parts – plus the ability to include a grammar lesson on speculative modals!

I’ll be giving this a go on Friday… for my first real ESL teaching experience! Ahh! Wish me luck :)

Louise

Comment on Intensive and Extensive Listening by fathima

fathima — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:25:07 +0000

Thanks for the information in the article on intensive and extensive listening skills. It was quite useful for my assignment on listening skills.