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    Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games: Teaching ESL, #8
    Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games: Teaching ESL, #8
    Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games: Teaching ESL, #8
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    Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games: Teaching ESL, #8

    By Greg Strandberg

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    These ten games serve as a starting point for your ESL career. Whether you’re just starting out for a year, or plan to teach ESL for awhile, these games will work wonders when you have nothing else to do, but still way too much time to do it in.

    Yep, I’m talking about the worst thing that can happen to you as a teacher – standing in front of a class with nothing to do. It happened to me more times than I’d care to admit, but it also allowed me to come up with these 10 fast and easy ESL games.

    If you’re just getting started on summer courses, watch out – that’s a whole new ballgame! It’s going to be tough working in a training center all day, six days a week, but you can do it – I did. And with these games, you’ll do it a lot more easily.

    I want to help you because when I was a teacher, there was often no one helping me. It sucked, and it shouldn’t be that way for you as well. Get these games and make your ESL classes fun again!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Strandberg
    Release dateJun 11, 2014
    ISBN9781311094551
    Fun English: 10 Fast and Easy ESL Games: Teaching ESL, #8
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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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    Fun English - Greg Strandberg

    Introduction

    This book is written for ESL teachers that are about to embark on busy summer teaching schedules. 

    Yes, when you’re an ESL teacher that means you work more in the summer.  Students are out of school and that means training centers are ramping up their schedules to make more money.

    Unfortunately for you that means twice the work for the same pay and with half the appreciation.  Hey, I did it for three summers at English First, one of China’s largest private English training centers.

    It sucked, and when I had class for three hours each day I typically had just an hour and a half worth of lessons – lessons provided to me by the training center!

    Sure, they said they were three hours, but anyone who tried them in class quickly found out that each lesson lasted half as long as it was supposed to and bored the kids twice as much as had been intended.

    That’s a drag, and that’s why you have to come up with extra games and activities on your own.

    Don’t worry, that’s what this book and two more just like it are for.  I’m writing this short ESL series for you so that you have those extra materials that I didn’t.  And I’m giving you these books at a good price because I know you’re not making a lot of money, which is a shame for how much crap you have to put up with.

    But worrying won’t stop those kids from acting up or staying quiet on you for 3 hours each day this summer – but this book will.  It’s got 10 fun English games that are fast and easy to set up and don’t require much in the way of planning or materials.

    In other words, they’re perfect for when you run out of everything else to do!  And

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