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Have Fun Talking!

24/1/2017

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In September, 2016 a brand new, fun English learning book hit Amazon. It's called "Have Fun Talking: 101 Informal Conversations in English".

My role was as editor & contributor to the book, the e-book (on Kindle), and as the creator of the related website http://www.havefuntalking.com. The publication contains dialogues dealing with a wide variety of life situations including Chinese translations of each conversation, as well as exercises to expand knowledge and vocabulary. It includes jokes on each page, idioms, and words of wisdom to promote thinking skills. The dialogues are also available on audio and CD formats.

That’s right, jokes! HUNDREDS of jokes! And why not? The name is HAVE FUN TALKING!, and we want you to have hundreds of laughs while you learn. There are jokes about cats, dogs, cars, banks, luggage, cheese, fish, teachers, monkeys, chickens, phones, motorcycles, airports, railroads and artists. You name it, we have probably included a joke about it.

What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator.

The e-Book version of “Have Fun Talking” is now available for purchase on Amazon!!!  It features all of the same content as the actual book, but has a few extras.
You can make notes of anything you’d like to remember or practice.
You can build a set of your own flashcards for any vocabulary you would like to recall.
Our testing has shown that the e-Book will work on a wide variety of devices, including:
– Windows PC’s
– Apple computers
– iPads
– Android tablets
– iPhones
– Android phones
So, you can take the e-book with you everywhere and spend any spare moments dipping into the dialogues and exercises, or just enjoying the jokes.

More recently, all 101 Have Fun Talking conversations are now available to purchase and download in .mp3 audio format. Each conversation is numbered and listed in the table of contents, so you can easily find the ones you are interested in studying. Listen to native English speakers while reading along in the book or e-book, practice your pronunciation with them, or just listen for fun. Whatever you decide, these audio files will be a great addition to your English language learning.

Please check out the website and have a look inside the books on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2k3MKge.

​(That's me on the right, by the way.)

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10 New Resources for Students and Teachers

8/6/2014

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I realise it has been some time since my last post, but I would like to make up for that by offering 10 new resources that both students and teachers will find very useful. These are items I have created and used with real students in real classrooms, so I can be confident in sharing them with you.
Just go to my Home page and you will see them listed under "Updates".
Please enjoy them. Greg.

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New Page - TESOL Forums

15/2/2013

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I'm pleased to announce a new page on 'Teacher Greg's Education Home'.

The motivation for it came from my desire to engage the many colleagues with whom I work, in a conversation about ELICOS (English Language Intensive Course of Study) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes) programs and how they operate at my institution. Like many workplaces, the pressures of just keeping on top of the teaching have meant that opportunities for genuine discussion, sharing and reflection have become rare, formal meetings have become ineffectual, and inefficiencies have naturally arisen as a result.

'TESOL forums' will be a chance to recover lost ground, to re-ignite the discussion, and to move forward in more practical ways. It will take some effort to 'sell' the idea and overcome the hesitation of others, but I'm taking the first steps while hoping this will lead them to continue the conversation.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. -Joan Wallach Scott
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. -Maria Robinson
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Webinar: Evaluating Online EFL Courses - The Learners' Dilemma

31/5/2011

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Abstract: Online learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) face many unique issues in choosing which program to study. The present paper begins with a review of criteria developed previously, and reassesses these based on subsequent pedagogical and technological innovations, particularly the evolution of Web 2.0 tools and “communicative language teaching” approaches. A new set of criteria were then applied to programs reviewed previously and to newer courses. These exposed ongoing problems of providers failing to adopt newer approaches despite most being available at no cost, a lack of standards, best practice models and external accreditation, and neglect in establishing a sense of community through enhanced student-teacher and student-student communication, which in turn impacts student motivation and the sense of isolation. The author suggests that more research effort it needed to encourage industry players to move forward, and to reassure learners of the quality and value for money of programs they may choose to complete.

The videos by Nik Peachey and George Siemens will not play in a Slidecast, so if you would like to view them you will need to go here:
Web 1.0 http://db.tt/U6kEP7L
Web 2.0 http://db.tt/nZfnlZz
Connectivism http://db.tt/9eCA2ds
Sorry for any inconvenience. Greg Q.

The link to the full conference paper is here.

Evaluating Online EFL Courses - The Learners' Dilemma
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