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28. What to do in the first 5 minutes of class!
29:20What should you do during the first 5 minutes of class? It may be more crucial than you realize! Those first five minutes can really set your ESL class culture and set the expectations of the students. Steve gives some great tips from his years of experience!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version
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27. New Years Resolutions: Our Personal Failures and Successes with Life in Korea
55:56In this episode, we get a little personal and candid and take a look at our new years resolutions and our subsequent successesand failures. Happy Lunar New Year!!!! Will Steve tackle his mountains? It remains to be seen.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version26. The Hardest Part of TEACHING ESL Abroad
30:42In this episode, Hal & Steve take a look at the hardest parts of teaching ESL - in this case South Korea. For instance, how is the concept of teaching different from the U.S. in South Korea? You'd be suprised how incredibly different it is! We also try to follow up identifying the problem by offering up some different solutions. Happy New Year!!!!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version25. Top 5 Ways to have an Excellent Christmas ESL Class
52:17In this episode, Hal & Steve draw from there experience to talk about the best ways to have an excellent ESL Christmas classes or events. They also take a closer look at the cultural aspects you may encounter, and the importance of bieng aware to those. Here are some of the links mentioned in the podcast as excellent resources :)Learn to draw with ABCs...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYc4qbBIDBo&list=PLakKIIiLniCCJalOrYg5wE02ncux7ml4ULearn to draw with supersimplesongs....https://supersimple.com/super-simple-draw/Christmas songs on supersimplesongs...https://supersimple.com/super-simple-songs/And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version24. Exploring Gamification in the Classroom with Dustin Staats
01:02:33SummaryIn this episode, Hal & Steve explore games in the classroom and gamifcation with Dustin Staats. Why or how should we use games in the classroom? Let's talk with an expert and follow his journey of developing his craft of gamification in the classroom.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version23. Why Kindy ESL Classes are Horrible for a Hakwon
40:46In this episode Hal & Steve take a look at kindy market and how it gets mixed up into the elementary hakwon market.Where did it all go wrong and why? What should we do about it? Steve and I take a closer look at these questions and more.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version22. The Hardest Part(s) of Running an Academy in Korea
01:08:55In this episode Hal & Steve take a look at the hardest part of running an English Academy (a hagwon as it's known in South Korea) with a promise to return on the following episode to offer solutions on the problems they've dissected.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...Fun Comparatives Bomb Games: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/3-fun-team-bomb-games-for-comparative-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version