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Blog Page for English Language Teachers

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in On-Line Publications and Sites, Teacher Education, Teachers' Page

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English Lesson Activities, Teaching Methods, TEFL, TESOL

About the Siteenglish-with-jennifer-blog

Welcome to my blog for English language teachers! My focus here is on methodology, strategies, and classroom activities. I offer ideas with the hope to facilitate a positive teaching experience for you and a successful learning outcome for your students. If even to a small degree I am able to encourage creativity, promote reflection, deepen your passion for teaching, and facilitate your students’ learning, then I will be extremely pleased.

We are fortunate to teach at this time, when online resources for our profession are plentiful, but in reality there is very little time to explore and examine them all. That said, I am genuinely appreciative every time a teacher visits my blog, and I thank you for your support of my efforts. I will do my best to offer ideas that have relevance, value, and immediate application to your teaching.

Lastly I express sincere gratitude to Pearson for making this blog possible. – Jennifer

Source: https://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/

Learn How to Understand “Fast” Speech

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in English Learners' Page, Lessons_Advanced Level

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ELL, English language lessons, English Listening Skills, ESOL, TEFL, TESOL

Hurray!  For those of you who struggle with making sense of English when it’s spoken too quickly, this video series offers suggestions that should help you!  The reason it’s so difficult for non-native English speakers to follow conversations and speech when it isn’t slowed down so you can hear every word clearly is precisely that:  The words AREN’T said in the way you learned them!  They are shortened and sometimes not said at all in order to “bunch” phrases together so that they can be said in roughly the same amount of time.  For example, English speakers say these two sentences in the same amount of time:
1) “The boy rode his bike.”  (Spoken like: *”Th’BOY//RODE//’is’BIKE.”)
2)  “The little boy always rode his bike.” (Spoken like: *”Th’ldl’BOY//aweys’RODE’//is’BIKE.”)
*Not using  phonetic symbols.  The // represents a syllable in English.  The capitalized words should be stressed and the ‘ shows where are joined together and read as one word instead of two or three.

Hopefully,the description above explains why it is difficult to follow spoken English when it is spoken quickly.  The video series will offer you strategies to making sense of such speech!

You can also find other lessons on  Jennifer YouTube channel as well on on her website, called “English with Jennifer: A Site for Language Learners“.  If you benefit from her site, please share it with your friends, family AND teachers! 🙂

To access information on how  to use her videos for instructional purposes, please go to: https://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL/about.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnVJEZjehsc

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INTONATION – English Pronunciation – YouTube

31 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in English Learners' Page, Lessons_Advanced Level, Lessons_Intermediate Level

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ELL, English Lessons for adults, English Pronunciation Lesson, ESOL, Intonation

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Pronunciation Activities and Practice Site

16 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in English Learners' Page, Lesson Ideas, On-Line Publications and Sites, Teachers' Page

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English pronunciation, TEFL, TESOL

A Corpus-Based Pronunciation Learning Website (Home Page)

A Corpus-Based Pronunciation Learning Website (Home Page)

This “A Corpus-Based Pronunciation Learning Website” from the University of Hong Kong site offers excellent information and activities for teaching AND learning English language pronunciation skills.  It also offers resources for how to learn Chinese!

Source: Pronunciation: Good Activities and Practice | Pronunciation Learning Website, FHM, HKIEd

Activities for Young Children

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Activities for Children

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English language lessons for chilldren, English language tutor, ESL, teacher, TEFL, TESOL

Below are images of activities I’ve done during lessons with children.

NOTE: I created these material using images available for educational purposes.  Thus, the material below is for lesson/classrooom use only.  The images of children in the Book About the One and Only Me activity are not my students…they are free-use images from Pixabay.

Giraffes Have Purple Tongues

From “Giraffes Have Purple Tongues” book

Bingo with body parts
Bingo with body parts
Bingo with CVC words
Bingo with CVC words
Rhyme Time
Alligator Pie
Shape Poems
"Words I Know" Bank
“Words I Know” Bank
animal-number-cards

Number Cards with Animals and People

body-part-bingo

Body Part Bingo

Book About ME_Final

Book About Me

Here Comes a Bear Song

Here Comes a Bear Song

Lessons and Activities for Adult English Language Learners

10 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Activities for Adults, My Services

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Below are links to lessons and activities that I’ve developed for adult learners:

Living in Two Worlds: Exploring Life Choices as a Bi-Cultural Person

English Articles Review Jeapardy Game

How Do You Like to Learn?

Graphic of Pre-Reading Skills

Thrift Store Shopping Game Cards

English Articles Explained

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I offer personal lessons to English language learners and others in the Lynnwood, WA vicinity.   For more information, please contact me through the form on my My Services    I usually respond to requests within 24 hours.  Thank you!

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The Color Vowel Chart | American English

10 Monday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Free and Low-Cost Teacher Resources, Lesson Ideas

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English pronunciation, English vowels, ESOL, TESOL

The Color Vowel Chart below mimics the tongue position used to produce the English vowel phonemes along with a mnemonic word clue and color to help remind learners how to make the sound.  Please access the site listed below to learn how to use it, to access the sounds from the interactive chart (click on the color to hear them) and for information on how to gain permission to use the chart in classroom settings.  (The authors also sell poster-sized versions of the chart for $5 and sell a pack of 50 “mini-charts” for student use $12.  Computer-generated sound files are available for free.)

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Color Vowel Chart.  Copyright 2009, 2012.  Authors: Karen Taylor & Shirley Thompson.

Note:  This above image may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the express permission of the authors. Address all inquiries to the authors.

Source: The Color Vowel Chart | American English

English from around the World – Sound Comparisons – Exploring phonetic diversity across language families

09 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in Lessons_Advanced Level, Teacher Education, Teachers' Page

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In addition to English standard and dialect language families spoken around the world, visitors to this site can find out extensive information about the Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Celtic, Andean, Mapudungun and Malakula language families as well!  The website is a database platform, so you can research how languages are spoken in various places of the world in numerous different ways–and hear, see and download information the information on this site for free!

Source: Accents of English from around the World – Sound Comparisons – Exploring phonetic diversity across language families

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See English Sounds in Action

09 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in English Learners' Page, Lessons_Advanced Level, Lessons_Intermediate Level

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adult English language lessons, ESOL, Pronunciation

If you want to practice your American Ensounds-of-englishglish pronunciation skills on your own, then this site may be just the answer!  The site offers videos, descriptions and audio files so you can see, read and listen to how to make different vowel and consonant sounds.  It also offers lessons and gives information on how use stress, rhythm and intonation within words and sentences.  These skills are also very important to know, since these make up the “music” of the language and significantly help listeners understand you when you speak in English.  I hope you find this site useful!

 

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My Services

08 Saturday Oct 2016

Posted by Alison Sattler in My Services

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English language teacher, inclusive workplaces, Job Skills for English Language Learners

I have taught English language skills to all ages and levels of students, and am also wanting help persons with learning challenges be able to discover how to overcome them while (believe it or not!) having FUN while learning!  By incorporating my students’ interests, stregnths and personal/academic goals into every lesson, I make sure to keep lessons relevant, purposeful, achievable and engaging for them.  I also welcome my students’ feedback, ideas and suggestions at all times, knowing that having them play an active role in their own learning process will reap the greatest results for them.  This is true for children as young as 4 years as well as adults past 70!

For examples of materials and resources I’ve created for use during lessons, please click on the links below.

Lessons and Activities for Adult Learners

Lessons and Activities for Young Children

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