Haydn's ESL Website

I have quit English teaching

Haydn S — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:32:59 +0000

I have decided to quit English teaching and to be the leader of a ministry. I am also attending Bible college. You can read all about my at my regular blog, Senator Quoheleth. Thanks for reading!

Filed under: About this teacher

Happiness isn’t important and weasel words kill

Haydn S — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:12:58 +0000

A researcher finds that being happy is not the most important thing in life: shock horror! Another article shows some interesting flaws in the Australian university system.

Filed under: Life in Sydney

Links for Teachers

Haydn S — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:44:57 +0000

Here are some more links for teachers that I’ve discovered:

- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/tertiaryplace

- http://www.englishpage.com/index.html

- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/celebration-resources/index.html

- http://www.digitalliteraciespd.pbworks.com

Enjoy

Filed under: Classroom Resources

Effective study habits

Haydn S — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:14:36 +0000

To my Academic English students, please find here my expectations of Academic English for you. Also, for your own benefit and personal usage, you can download the Growing Student Dictionary.

PS – If you’re daring, feel free to try these recipes, courtesy of an Australian magazine publisher. YUM!

Filed under: Classroom Resources

Resources for English Learning

Haydn S — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:22:11 +0000

- Pronunciation Videos

- Breaking News English

- Behind the News

Here are some other thinks:

- http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Pathak-ComputerClass.html

- Australia Network.com/studyenglish (Brilliant stuff for IELTS)

- Australia Network.com/livingenglish (great site with a faux TV series for new learners to practise listening)

- Breaking News English.com (excellent stuff with easy-to-read news stories)

- Behind the News (terrific news stories for primary and secondary school students)

- My English Lab

- An academic paper on call

- ESL Lab

READING:

- Andersen Fairy Tales

- ESL Home

- ESL in the USA

LISTENING:

- http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm (Brilliant site with a guy who clearly has a passion for English learning.)

- http://www.eslhome.com/esl/listen/

LEXIS:

- Language Guide

- http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/

- ESL Bears

SPEAKING:

- ESL Go

- Grammar Safari

- English 4 All

- http://ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/grammar/index.html

PRONUNCIATION:

- BBC Learning English- Pronunciation Tips (Videos on how to pronounce English sounds)

- American Pronunciation (includes and explanation of American pron)

OTHER:

(Online Games)

(Online dictionaries and encyclopedias)

- P-dictionary.com

- http://www.m-w.com/home.htm

- Visual Thesaurus

(Media)

- BBC Learning English

- Australia Network

- http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/

- Discovery Education

- http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart

- Boggles World

- 2RPH community radio

- The Australian (newspaper)

- The Age (newspaper)

- The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH)

- MX newspaper

- ABC for Kids

Tomorrow we’ll look at this story on creatures of the deep sea. This will be the activity sheet.

Filed under: Classroom Resources

End-of-term Interview Feedback

Haydn S — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:11:33 +0000

To my Upper Elementary B1 class, next Friday I’ll interview each and every one of you, to give you feeback on your speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary. This is the form that I’m going to use and give to you at the end of your interview Have a terrific weekend! You’re all fantastic students and I like you all very much

Filed under: Classroom Resources

Growing Student Dictionary and Pronunciation

Haydn S — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:45:02 +0000

Hi all, here is my Growing Dictionary, which I hope will help you remember new words. When you learn them, please try to use them. If you don’t use words, you lose them. If you want to watch some videos on how to manke English sounds, you can watch these videos. Here’s a chart of the phonemic sounds, all together. Enjoy!

Filed under: Pronunciation, Vocabulary (Lexis)

Listening: success

Haydn S — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:32:21 +0000

Hi all, please watch and listen to this news file on the Australian general election and answer the following questions:

Q1: What’s the measure of success in this story?

Q2: How is success measured in politics in Australia?

Q3: What does it mean to ‘take on’ someone?

Q4: What political party is in power now?

Q5: Who was the Prime Minister? Who’s the PM now and how did she get the job (in your own words)?

Q6: Why are people enthusiastic about Julia Gillard?

Q7: What are people feeling about Kevin Rudd at the moment?

Q8: What will happen if Julia Gillard loses the election?

Filed under: Homework, Listening

Music in class

Haydn S — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:15:37 +0000

Many people today wanted to listen to Coldplay this week. Here are the songs that we listened to:

You also listened to these ones by U2:

Onw student in class has been insisting on the song ’Oh Yeah’ by Yello. Well, here it is It’s strange and bizarre… I honestly don’t like the song or the video but maybe you will!

Haydn's ESL Website

I have quit English teaching

Happiness isn’t important and weasel words kill

Links for Teachers

Effective study habits

Resources for English Learning

End-of-term Interview Feedback

Growing Student Dictionary and Pronunciation

Listening: success

Music in class

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