What 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!

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In this episode, we get a little personal and candid and take a look at our new years resolutions and our subsequent successes

and failures. Happy Lunar New Year!!!! Will Steve tackle his mountains? It remains to be seen.

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In 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!!!!

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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In 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=PLakKIIiLniCCJalOrYg5wE02ncux7ml4U

Learn to draw with supersimplesongs....

https://supersimple.com/super-simple-draw/

Christmas songs on supersimplesongs...

https://supersimple.com/super-simple-songs/

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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-grammar

Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

Holiday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

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In 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.

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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In 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.

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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In 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.

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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Running an English Academy (a hagwon as it's known in South Korea) is super stressful.

You're a foreigner, in a foreign land, with a government that probably doesn't have the most scrupulous legal track record, and you've gotta somehow convince the locals that you teach English really well.

Not only that, you've got to convince them that you can teach English better than the locals, even though they've been trained to be distrustful of everyone from outside their community.

Yeah.... it's pretty tough.

And when you DO open up your academy, the local competitors are going to have their ears on the ground for a way to undermine you. And any one you upset will put you dead in their crosshairs.

It's kinda rough. And Aaron R. takes us through it.

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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How did you know you wanted to teach abroad?

We talked about that and more with an awesome and experienced ESL teacher and writer, Jennifer Helfand. She has had a myriad of teaching experiences around the world, and now travels freely around the world teaching online classes and focusing on her work as a writer. She also had some absolutely incredible experiences to share on her volunteer work in refugee camps.

Check it out, as well as some of her work:

https://www.englishtoinspireyou.com/

Online English classes, writing services, consulting, and advice and support about teaching abroad.

[email protected]

Please feel free to contact me with any questions. I'm happy to help!

https://www.jordanamayim.com/

My writing website, including excerpts from my two books: Nikolas and the Misfit Shapes Find Their Place (a children's book about the beauty of diversity and about finding your place in the world when you feel like you don't fit in),The Life of Zerah (an illustrated spiritual allegory about a seed who wants to become a tree in the hopes that he'll be loved), and a non-depressing blog about depression and bipolar disorder: what it's like and how I got better. It's called Keep Walking.

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Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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What's better? Teaching ESL in South Korea or in America?

We talked to an awesome ESL teacher with experience in both. Megan Kelly spent a few years teaching in a competitive English Kinergarten Academy in South Korea and also at an International School in the heart of Seoul. She left all of that behind to get her wings as an ESL teacher in the United States.

She tells us the pros and cons of both! Check it out.

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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-grammar

Animal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-games

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