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
Teaching Children vs. Teaching Adults
A new co-host, Clive, squares off with Mark about which is better teaching children or teaching adults. Mark prefers teaching children and has some suggestions for Clive’s proble…
New Classes With Young Students
Part one – Children’s classes: There’s a lot to think about when dealing with a new class. Ron and Mark offer you some advice and give you a few things to think about when the cl…
Season 2 Premiere + Living and Teaching in Taiwan
This first segment brings you a short interview with the new co-host Ron Molenda. We learn a little bit about Ron and what all this Season 2 nonsense is about. In the Just Talk se…
The Season Finale
There have been 30 shows over the past year, and this week’s show is the season finale. Mark and Eric go over why they created eslTeacherTalk. What they hope they have done to h…
Why not start an ESL blog?
They’re everywhere and about everything, why not start your own. You have a lot of experiences and advice to pass on! Blog today! This week, Mark and Eric discuss the benefits …
GAME OF THE WEEK: Down Pass
This is a relatively easy to prepare game that you can use to practice compound words or spelling. It is designed for larger classes, but can be easily adapted to small groups. …
Super Simple Songs
Devon Thagard, co-creator of SuperSimpleSongs, comes to the studio this week. He discusses his ESL experience and how he uses songs in class with young children. There are also …
GAME OF THE WEEK: RPS Challenge
In 5 minutes practice any target language with students aged 5-100. All you need are some markers and students. It’s a great warm-up activity or review activity.
Interview with Patrick Jackson
This week we have Patrick Jackson, author of the Potato Pals series published through Oxford Press. He talks about his experiences getting the books to print, what potato pals are…