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		<title>How to create a gap-fill exercise in 5 minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Karolina Czurak
Creating a gap-fill exercises is a tedious process. Deleting words is time-consuming and simply boring. And then, you never now what words to cut out!
Whether to go for lexis, grammar or maybe just remove every seventh word?
My idea is quite different and is based on randomness: all you need to do is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Icebreaker questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get? 
If you were an animal, what would you be and why? 
What is one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime? 
When you were little, who was your favourite super hero and why? 
Who is your hero? (a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Guess that sentence&#8221; &#8211; esl activity idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Ewa

This is a great activity idea to use in the esl classroom. It combines reading, synonyms, grammar (parts of the sentence) and a bit of personalisation. It works great at the beginning of a course when students still don&#8217;t know their teacher. 
Task

Guess that sentence!


Excerpt
Clues:
1.	It’s a pronoun used to refer to a woman.
2.	It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dicey questions &#8211; exchanging information</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by anonymous

Author: Richelle Hewin
Roll the dice to find out which question word to use.
Materials: Several dice (1 per pair / group of three works well)
&#160;
Procedure

Elicit question words from the class (e.g. &#8216;What&#8217;, &#8216;How long&#8217;, etc)
Show the dice to the class to elicit what it is, and how many sides it has. Assign number 1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers in this school always lie&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another version of a well known task based on the idea that there are two people/groups. One of which always lies whereas the other always tell the truth. All you need to do is read to your students the following story and give them some time to come up with an answer.
You can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Conditional chaining</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL teaching ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Kate

The idea is not new, but I&#8217;ve found it works really great with all groups of students. It is a typical grammar drill with a bit of meanigfulness added. It can be used to practice just about any conditional sentence, not only first conditional. This is how it works:
The teacher begins by saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Unreliable teacher&#8221; &#8211; how to check gap-fill tasks</title>
		<link>http://www.eslhandouts.com/teaching-ideas/unreliable-teacher-how-to-check-gap-fill-tasks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Mark
In fact this technique can be used to check any kind of task. The rationale behind it is that it helps to undermine the &#8220;teacher knows all&#8221; attitude of some students. It will definitely work best in classes consisting of young English learners as it encourages students to think and process what the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Web research task&#8221; &#8211; lesson idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[houses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Mark
Some of us are lucky to have computers in our classrooms. Being able to use a computer lab can be a real blessing when you simply have no idea for a fun and motivating lesson.
Basically, the most obvious idea for using computers in the classroom is &#8220;web research task&#8221;. The Internet is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to present new vocabulary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Marek from Poland
I always have trouble presenting new vocabulary items to beginners and false beginners. For obvious reasons I cannot use monolingual dictionaries and translating words from English into Ss native language all the time feels a bit wrong.
So the idea is to use pictures. But not pictures alone! Pictures and the text. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personalised dictation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ESL teaching ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shared by Krystyna
Most of us think of dictation as the boring blast from the past but there are ways of making it a little bit more interesting. 


Procedure


Before you introduce a reading passage to students, ask them to keep their books closed.

Dictate statements you have prepared and extracted from the text you are going to [...]]]></description>
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