Podcasts – ESL Teacher Talk – ESL Podcasts for Teachers
ESL Teacher Talk provides free broadcasts for ESL teachers on topics such as classroom management, lesson planning advice, job search tips and more. Listen on-line or download to your iPod or mp3 player and go! You will also find interviews with the top names in ESL. Each broadcast contains a feature game or activity that you can use in your lessons with supporting downloads, materials and videos. ESL Teacher Talk is hosted by 2 veteran ESL teachers that run a combined 4 ESL teaching sites. With almost 15 years of ESL teaching experience, your hosts look at teaching English from the trenches and provide insight and fresh ideas for the beginner teacher to the ESL pro.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2007 - 2010
Dolch Sight Words – Using them in ESL classes
This show starts off with a quick discussion about the new teacher tips video blog that Matt has put together on DreamEnglish.com called the Teach Kids English Show. They are …
High grammar but low speaking competence
This week we welcome Dave from http://www.learnenglish-online.com. Dave is working at a language school and international high school in Canada. Additionally he runs his own web…
Teaching holidays
Even though it’s February, happy New Year! Valentine’s Day is on the way and Mark has a new site with some cool teacher tools. Print With My Pic.com allows you to add your photo…
Motivating students
Christmas is upon us … ho! ho! ho! Merry Christmas everybody! Tis the season, so Matt has a new Christmas Song for you to download and use in your classes: Merry Christmas! It’s…
Teaching toddlers, 2-3 year olds
This show was recorded back in the summer and a few shows got bumped up, so if you feel we’ve gone back in time, I guess we have But first, we of course have some new things on t…
Teaching communication strategies
Happy fall everybody!
We’ll get back to fall and Halloween for the games of the week, but Matt has some great news for you. He’s finished and launched Dream English volume 3. Th…
Teaching the Past Tense
Mark starts off the show with a description of a few new things MES English has to offer its users. In the show Mark has gone over his speaking first curriculum and now some of t…
Using Chants to Teach
Matt has a few new songs on Dream English for younger children (shapes and more.) There’s also a little discussion on the benefits of using children’s songs .
Dream English has 4…
Teaching the Present Continuous
The show starts off with unseasonable weather and a circus but moves quickly into this show’s theme, the present continuous.
Matt and Mark go over:
- presenting the target language…
Teaching Thematic Units
Matt has added some new simple easy songs for 1-3 year old classes.
Mark and Matt cover creating thematic units. This show covers what a thematic unit is, what the goals of a the…
MES curriculum – A non-textbook approach part 2
Mark has added some phonics games for students at Fun Fonix.com.
This show discusses MES-English.com‘s curriculum for young learners. This is the second part of teaching without a…
Explaining activities just using English
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This show Mark explains some new features to the free word search maker at Tools for Educators. It really makes a word search a worksheet but keeps it fun. Matt has opened a new…
Teaching ‘do’ verbs
This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors. Matt has a new Skidamarink Song up on Free ABC Songs and Mark posted a new book to the Fun Fonix web…
Teaching the verb ‘be’
This show Mark and Matt have a few new things on their websites for visitors. Matt has put up some new videos to match the Dream English songs. Some of the videos have ‘live per…
MES curriculum – A non-textbook approach part 1
This show discusses MES-English.com‘s curriculum for young learners. It’s the first steps for teaching without a course book or for teachers who are thrown into a teaching situat…
Season 3 Premiere – Dream English
Welcome back for Season 3 of ESL Teacher Talk! If you’re new to ETT, then … just Welcome!
In Season 3 we have a new co-host, Matt of Dream English.com. With Matt and the othe…
The Communicative Approach
This is the end of Season 2 here at ESL Teacher Talk. This week we talk about the communicative approach.
We cover:
- what the communicative approach is
- the theory behind the comm…
Teaching Methodologies: Total Physical Response
Total Physical Response (TPR) is a methodology made famous by James Ashner. It’s teaching style based on kinestetic learning. Teachers speak and students respond in some manner …
Exam Preparation
This week’s show we welcome John Marks from www.eltgames.com and www.langwichscool.com and we discuss exam preparation courses.
In this show we discuss some ideas on how to organi…
Teaching Methodologies – Suggestopedia
This week’s show is almost the end of our teaching methodolgies series. Today we offer … Suggestodepia
We cover:
- what suggestopedia is
- how does a suggestopedia lesson run
- the pr…