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
Using Board Games
This week’s show is on using board games off the shelf. Ron and Mark offer some suggestions for how you can use board games in ESL classes and as communicative activities.
We c…
What makes for a good speaking activity
This week Chris Cotter from Heads Up English.com is with us again. Heads Up English.com has some new lower intermediate exercises: speaking activities, listening activities, gram…
The Silent Way in Language Teaching
We have a big show this week, so we get right into it.
Mark and Ron cover these points concerning the Silent Way methodology:
- what is the Silent Way Method
- key aspects of the Sil…
Content and Language Intergrated Learning
Clive of ESL Podcards is with us again this week. He’s been working his site and enrolled in a new course. He’s learning about Content and Language Intergrated Learning (CLIL.) …
Englipedia – “Sharing a little, gaining a lot”
THe show starts off with a brief look at the possible hazards associated with teaching ESL. Mark has a pretty interesting story from work this week.
This podcast we’re glad to we…
Using a Projector in Classes
The new school year has started in Taiwan and Ron is back to work.
Easter and St. Patrick’s Day are upon us this month and Mark has some new materials for these holidays if you’re…
the Audio-Lingual Method and how we can use it
Mark has a lot of news. Things are moving and shaking at MES-English with a new website that will bring a lot of flexibility to MES-English users and provide materials for teache…
Writing up a lesson plan
This week’s show deals with creating a lesson plan.
- requirements for a lesson plan
- why you should have a lesson plan
- what goes into a lesson plan
- the lesson plan as a record for …
Planning an event, show, or presentation
Happy New Year! We’re back and we hope everyone has had a great holiday. Ron’s in Tailand and Mark is freezing in Nagano. The idea of enjoying winter and getting out in the sno…
Organization on the job
Merry Christmas! This will be the last podcast of 2007 and we wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Mark has a lot of news this show.
the Direct Method and You!
In a quick intro to the show, we find out Mark is ecstatically jubilant this week. Things are fabulously wonderful in Japan. Find out why.
Continuing with teaching methods, this…
The last minute class. Ahh!
This might be the last podcast that opens with a Halloween discussion. It was recorded back at the beginning of Oct. If you’d like to see the outcome of all of this Halloween ta…
Methodologies: Grammar Translation
This show we’re starting a small series on methodologies in ESL/EFL. Through the years there have been quite a few different takes on teaching languages. We’ll look at each one …
Getting ‘Genki’ With It
This show we welcome Richard Graham from GenkiEnglish.com. Richard runs www.genkienglish.com and provides music, games and downloads for teachers. He tells us a bit about how he…
Teaching Phonics – spelling and order (Part 2)
It’s wet and wild in Japan. A Typhoon has landed and after the podcast Mark actually had to head out to do some volunteer fire fighter work. Saving the day!
This week we’re back …
Teaching Phonics – spelling and order (Part 1)
It’s tough to cover all of phonics, but Mark and Ron give it a shot. The show takes a look first at spelling through the ages and why English spelling is the monster it is. There…
Setting up classes and getting the right levels together
Just when you thought the stores were putting out their Halloween stuff a little too early, Mark explains to you the market they’re after. Luckily, Halloween isn’t the topic of t…
Tips for Teaching Advanced Learners
Teaching advanced learners can often feel like tuning up a Ferrari. What do you do? How do you make those students run better? This week’s show brings back Chris Cotter from ww…
Lesson Plans Based on News Articles
Using news articles in classes provides interesting and useful content, but how should we go about it? This show Chris Cotter from www.headsupenglish.com visits with us. HeadsUp…
New Classes With Adults
Mark and Ron pick up from the show two episodes ago and deal with new classes, new students and new teachers. This show covers adult classes and young adult learners. we go over…