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    Teaching English: 101 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking: Teaching ESL, #5
    Teaching English: 101 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking: Teaching ESL, #5
    Teaching English: 101 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking: Teaching ESL, #5
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    Teaching English: 101 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking: Teaching ESL, #5

    By Greg Strandberg

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    ESL is visual, and Microsoft PowerPoint works great at showing a class of English students something visually.

    Teaching with PowerPoint is great for showing pictures, explaining vocabulary words, and highlighting simple English sentences. And with PowerPoint you get tons of game ideas, all of which get students talking.

    This book will give you 101 different ESL PowerPoint ideas with more than 250 different pictures to explain them. These are ideas you can use in your English classes right now.

    What’s more, you can get 10 of the PowerPoints for free on my website, www.esladventure.com, right now. On top of that I’ll give you the links to 10 more ESL PowerPoints, lessons and games your students will love. That’s a huge help, yours with this book!

    Get your students excited in class. See measurable results in their English language skills. Make teaching English fun again.

    Get this book for your ESL classroom today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Strandberg
    Release dateFeb 3, 2014
    ISBN9781507035368
    Teaching English: 101 ESL PowerPoint Ideas That Get Students Talking: Teaching ESL, #5
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    Greg Strandberg

    Greg Strandberg was born and raised in Helena, Montana. He graduated from the University of Montana in 2008 with a BA in History.When the American economy began to collapse Greg quickly moved to China, where he became a slave for the English language industry. After five years of that nonsense he returned to Montana in June, 2013.When not writing his blogs, novels, or web content for others, Greg enjoys reading, hiking, biking, and spending time with his wife and young son.

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      Teaching English - Greg Strandberg

      Preface – Teaching English with PowerPoints

      ESL is very visual, and that means images work well. Nothing gets a student associating an English word with a first language word better than an image. It’s instantaneous.

      That’s why ESL PowerPoints work so well – they’re full of images. Microsoft PowerPoint is a computer software that works great for showing pictures, showing the vocabulary word, and showing simple sentences the students can use to begin using the language themselves.

      It’s that visual aspect though that really packs a punch. It’s simple – the moment your students see the picture on the screen they’ll think of that word in their native language.

      Other students will say the word in English if they know it, and then you can say it. Show the picture word, and then have the students say it out loud. Then you can repeat it two times.

      That’s 6 times right there that the student is exposed to that English word in just a minute or less, all with an ESL PowerPoint.

      It typically takes a student 10 times of seeing a word before they remember it or learn it. And that’s why these ESL PowerPoints can be so effective – they get that word out many times.

      I’ve used each PowerPoint in this book and I got 30 to 60 minutes out of them – a full ESL class. Many times it was tough, and I had to have some supplementary materials like handouts, group activities or projects, and even videos.

      But get through those classes I did, and I’m confident you can do the same if you just put in a little extra effort.

      You can find all of these ESL PowerPoints on my website, www.esladventure.com. Most all of them are $0.99, a few are $1.99, and 10 are free. I’ll put links to the free PPTs so you can download them quickly and start using them in class right away.

      And to make your time as an ESL teacher even better, I’m giving you an additional 10 PowerPoints for free.

      Yes, I’m giving you 10 free PowerPoints – a huge value that will make your classroom time better!

      The links are in each section of the book, and trust me, these are PowerPoints your students will actually like.

      If you like those PowerPoints, consider buying some of the others on the site. And keep on the lookout too – I always put free games, files, and worksheets on www.esladventure.com.

      I sincerely hope you can get some good ideas for your ESL classes, and that your year of teaching abroad is as headache-free as possible. This book should serve as a simple guide for what you can create on your own, with just a little effort after school or on the weekends.

      So go forth and show your students a good time – they’ll love you for it!

      Introduction

      1: Treasure Your ESL PowerPoints

      ESL is very visual, and nothing is better at showing a class full of students something visually than Microsoft PowerPoint.

      In fact, PowerPoint is like a treasure trove at your fingertips, one that gets students talking fast. That’s what it’s all about with English as a Second Language (ESL) – getting students to talk. And the faster you can do that, the fewer headaches you’ll have.

      Don’t think it takes much, either. Simple PowerPoints are often better than more complex PowerPoints – I know from experience.

      I used PowerPoints a lot during the five years I taught ESL in China. I started with really simple ones and eventually moved up to PowerPoints that were more complex.

      Sometimes just a simple picture with a title is all you need, like with this ESL Treasure PPT:

      The more pictures you add in, the more your students will have to talk about:

      Getting questions and answers flying is a pretty easy step after that. And all you really needed to do was add in a few pictures from Google and some vocabulary words from your book.

      I used this ESL Treasure PowerPoint all throughout my last year of teaching ESL. It was really simple, focused on vocabulary words in the students’ book, and gave them pictures for words they had no visual idea of.

      It worked great just before we played a more complex PowerPoint game called Pirate Adventure. Both were great for that higher-level class, and you can find both of them on my website. In fact, you can get this 14-slide ESL Treasure PowerPoint for free on my ESL site’s free files page.

      Yes, all of the 101 PowerPoints in this book are available on my website. Many of them are free, and the others are $0.99. I used all of them while I was an ESL teacher, and I know they all work.

      You can make something similar, get the versions on my site, or make something a whole lot better. It’ll get your students talking, and when it comes to ESL, that’s what it’s all about.

      PowerPoint English Lessons

      Each of the following PowerPoints can be used as a lesson by itself in class. You can find many on my website or use these ideas to make your own.

      Finding pictures on Wikipedia or Google is easy, it just takes a little time. Then you’ve got to go and add in the text, move things around, and maybe assign action effects and slide transitions.

      Well, I guess it’s a bit of work after all. You’ll find 10 of these PowerPoints free on my website, 10 more free because you bought this book, and the rest you can buy for just $0.99. I hope they help you out as much as they helped me!

      2: All About You

      When you first start teaching ESL you’re going to want to tell your students a bit about you. I did this my first year, and it was just awful. I didn’t even have a PPT, I did it with a crappy Word document!

      By the time my second year rolled around I’d learned my lesson, and had a great introductory ESL PowerPoint prepared that told my students all about me, but a whole lot more as well.

      You can get this PPT free on my site, and I’ve even made a cool template for you so that you can stick your pictures in there and then just change the text around. That should save you a lot of time, which when you’re just starting out in your new country, you’ll want more of to do fun things, not worry about class.

      Let’s go through several of the Introductory Lesson PPT’s slides and see how it can help you.

      Laying Down the Law

      I had a tough time teaching my first year in China. This was partly because my students were young and partly because I had 50 of them in a class. But it was also partly due to my own inexperience and inability to be tough and firm.

      I didn’t make that mistake my second year, and the very first slide of this Introductory PPT lays down the rules.

      You can see that there are 6 basic rules there, and I had the students read these out loud. In the next slide I went even further.

      Here are 6 things I expected from my students. These were grade 7, 8 and 9 students so there were really no excuses for them messing around all the time. And they loved that last point when it came up.

      I had a lot more respect from them that year, and I can’t help but think it’s because I was upfront about what I expected, both from them and from myself.

      Introducing Yourself

      After that you’re going to want to introduce yourself. The best way to do this is to talk with the students, but having some basic information for others to read is great.

      All students learn differently. Some learn by listening to you talk, others by reading, and still others by watching or doing. Few learn the same way so you have to give them options.

      This slide is good because it presents basic info that you or they can read. My students really got a lot of laughs out of the height and weight measurements too. You’re going to want to talk a bit about your family, and showing pictures is great. Most people in China are quite slim, so if you can get some ‘bigger’ pictures, like I showed of my dad, you’ll certainly have something to talk about for a few minutes.

      After that it’s good to talk about where you’re from. I give some basic information and then talk a bit.

      See, with your introductory lesson you’re probably going to be doing most of the talking. This isn’t a bad thing. Students are nervous, you’re nervous – it’s good to break the ice. And the more you can make them laugh with your words or pictures, the easier that’ll be.

      Showing Where You’re From

      In this PPT I have about 5 or 6 pictures of my home state and I suggest you do the same with wherever you’re from.

      I like to do full-pictures on most slides, but these half-shots are great because you can add some easy text in there. There are lots of options, and the more pictures you do the more time you’ll kill. Your students will start to get bored, however, if you do too many.

      Highlighting Your Experience

      If you have previous teaching experience I’d highlight it. I did this PPT my second year teaching ESL so I had quite a few pictures to show my new students of my old students.

      If you have pictures of friends back home or jobs you did, these are also good things to put in. And remember, the sillier, or perhaps more embarrassing, the better. Here’s a real doozy from English Week my first year:

      Sharing Your Interests

      Your students will be interested in what you like to do, so you’re going to want to include quite a few slides about that. If you’ve travelled a bit you’ll also want to include information about that.

      What’s so great about this Introductory Lesson is that you’ll get a ton of ideas for your later lessons. See, when you get a good reaction from some of your pictures or some of the things you say, make a mental note of that.

      Obviously your students are interested when that happens, and that’s the first step in making a good ESL Lesson. I can’t tell you how many times I had bad days because I made lessons on things that I thought were cool but bored them.

      The more pictures you show the better. I won’t bore you with all of mine here, but you can see what I did if you check out this PPT on my website.

      I did this lesson only one year, my last year in public schools, and it worked well. I got a full week out of it, then did it a bunch the next week with classes I hadn’t had yet. I had it prepared before I even got back to China, so I had lots of time to explore my new area.

      I urge you to make your own Introductory Lesson like this one, as your students will love learning about you and it’ll give them an idea of what the PowerPoints in your class are going to be like all year long.

      3: American Food

      ESL teachers are always teaching food and food-related subjects. One of the most popular ESL PowerPoints on my site is called American Food. It’s about as simple as you can get, with slides like this:

      Pretty basic, but there are dozens of slides like that. In fact, this food PPT has 100 slides! They’re not all about food, either:

      Yeah, that’s a sure-fire winner, right there. My students always got a good laugh out of it. Also, they were excited to see what came next, which was good...because it wasn’t that exciting:

      If you’re a teacher, these grammar-style slides are great. This American Food PowerPoint focuses on the words "would,

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