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Why Should You Spend $0.99 on This ESL Site?

6/28/2014

Simple – time and hassle.

I mean, let’s be honest – nothing on this site is terribly groundbreaking, all that new, or critical to your life. You can make each and every one of these PowerPoint games or lessons yourself.

So why spend $0.99 then?

Like I said, time and hassle.

First, you save time and create more free time for yourself in the process. Typically I’d spend an hour or two coming up with a PowerPoint. Some of these took a lot longer than this, of course.

Second, you eliminate hassles. Going around on the internet and finding pictures for your PowerPoint is a pain. And let’s not get into coming up with a game story idea or just typing up all the slides!

That’s why spending $0.99 for a vocabulary lesson, a PowerPoint game, or some printable handouts is a good investment.

You’re not really buying any of those things just listed, however.

No, what you’re really buying is more free time for yourself and a whole lot less to worry about.

See, when you know you have something for tomorrow’s lesson then you can kick back today.

Go out with friends to that new restaurant or stay in with a few beers and watch that movie you’ve been putting off. And don’t forget all the time you can screw around in the teacher’s office now that you don’t have to plan!

That’s why people spend $0.99 on this site. Well, that’s not quite true – most people are spending more than that. For you’ve bought one thing and realized how much it helps you’ll come back and try out a few more things.

Give yourself more time and less hassle by spending $0.99 on ESL Adventure today. It’s worth it, right?

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New ESL Jeopardy Games Page

6/21/2014

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Free ESL Jeopardy is Here!

I’ve got a new page up on the website called ESL Jeopardy Games. There you can find all of the old games I used to play when I was a teacher in China.

Well, that’s not true – there are some games I’m missing. For instance, I lost a USB one time and that had about 8 games. Those are now gone and it’s a real loss for the world.

Everyone must move on, however, and I’ve done so. That’s good news for you, because it means more Jeopardy games.

Yeah, I’ve got about 20 on my computer and I’m slowly putting them up. Right now the page has 5 ESL Jeopardy games, and 3 of them are free!

Yeah, you can get a low-level, mid-level and high-level ESL game for free!

And I’ll slowly put up more that you can pay $0.99 for. I’ve had interest in these, so I know they’re working for you. And I know killing 20 minutes at the end of a class right before the weekend is worth the cost of a beer or candy bar to you.

That’s why I’m going through those 20 games slowly. See, they’re not really 20 games, but about 7 that have slight variations based on level and what units we were studying.

I need to go through and change a lot of things so that they’re useful to you. So what does that look like? It means new categories.

Yep, with each ESL Jeopardy game you’re getting 6 categories to choose from. Some of these will be the same in every singe one of my games for one simple reason – they work. So you’ll always have pictures, grammar, and spelling.

Sometimes you have to put appropriate spelling words in yourself, but these are fun and kids laugh.

Here’s what a typical category line-up will look like:

Whoa…math? What the heck! Yeah, I put that in back when I was a public school teacher. Kids like it – what can I say!

Here’s what a few of the clues from my latest game look like, a free ESL High-Level Jeopardy game:

Let’s go over those clues and what they mean.

That first clue is from Pictures and the answer is Mongolia. I chose that because it was the country north of China, where I was teaching.

Next we get some grammar with “used,” something that was in my students’ book.

After that is a fun category I never used when I was a teacher, but had activities that were similar. Students have to talk non-stop for however long, going from 10 seconds to 2 minutes in this game.

Finally we have an unknown category, and it has that last picture, which is someone folding paper.

Notice how I was using sequencers (First, Then, Next, Finally) there? Yeah, I’m good.

All in all, good times in class! You could always tell the teachers that were good because the students would be shouting in joy and you could hear it in your classroom where everything was boring.

Change that up with these new ESL Jeopardy PowerPoint Games!

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Game Changing New ESL Book for Summer Teachers

6/11/2014

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Are you teaching ESL this summer?

First, let me say I’m sorry.

I know the bullshit, the hassles, and the pure turmoil you’re going to be putting up with each day. I sympathize with you as someone that did that shit for 3 summers.

So what can I do to help? First, I’ve got tons of ESL teaching videos going up, with the goal of getting 90 of them to you by the end of this summer.

Next, there’s this new book, Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games. You can buy it on Amazon or Smashwords for $2.99. It will be on iTunes shortly.

I used all the ideas in the book many times. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn’t. I’m sure you know by know that’s how it goes, even with the best activities in the world.

Yep, all classes are different, but I found these simple games usually work, especially when you keep them in the age groups I’ve set them in: low, mid and high.

So what are these cool games? Take a look at this excerpt from the book:

Back when I was teaching public school I had it rough. There were fifty kids in a class and most of them were more interested in goofing off than in learning English.

It was the start of my second year, and just the first week of class. I thought I’d be prepared, what with all that experience, but the sad truth was I wasn’t. Instead I was standing there amid a class of students and I had no idea what I was going to do.

Everything I’d tried didn’t work and things were going south fast. So I took off my hat, wrote up a quick list of vocabulary words from the unit the students were studying, and then began cutting them up. Into the hat they went, and then I stood there.

I still had no idea what I was going to do. The students looked at me expectantly, their bad behavior gone. They knew something interesting was coming, but they were in the same boat I was, not knowing what that might be!

I turned around and grabbed the chalk from the board, then started to write a sentence…

Check out Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games today!

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June ESL Book and Summer Teaching Materials

6/2/2014

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They're ready for summer - are you?

I set myself a goal this year, to put out one new ESL eBook each month.

So far I’ve done well, putting out 5 books this year. And this summer I’m going to put out 3 more, each one short and priced between $0.99 and $1.99.

Pretty good deal, huh? And it’s great for all you ESL teachers just gearing up for your summer sessions.

Yep, I did that for three years – summer intensive ESL training. You teach classes for about three hours a day, sometimes having both morning and afternoon classes. And if you’re working at a training center like I was, you might even be working on the weekends, and with just one day off during the week.

Yeah, it sucks. And that’s why I want to try and make it easier for you. How can I do that? Simple – by providing you with games, lessons and ideas you can use in the classroom…right…now. Games like you’ll find on the new ESL Teaching Videos page.

Those kids are screaming their heads off, sitting bored, or not talking at all right now, aren’t they? Yep, so you need things right now to solve those problems.

These books will give that to you. Those videos will give that to you.

Fun English

The first book I’ll put out this summer is called Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games.

It should be out on Friday, June 13. Yeah, Friday the 13th…ugh! I bet you’ll need some help on that day, what do you think?

I think so, and these ten games will do just that…help you.

So check back to the site frequently. Lots of things are happening this summer, and I don’t want you to miss out.

I’ll have more useful stuff, and for free. And if you want to get more great deals, consider signing up for my mailing list, which gives you 2 newsletters each month as well as a free ESL book.

Hey, June is here…break out that fun English!

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Why Should You Spend $0.99 on This ESL Site?

New ESL Jeopardy Games Page

Game Changing New ESL Book for Summer Teachers

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