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Presentaion on interview skills - Interesting presentation on interviewing strategies from Microsoft. Here's the link. If that doesn't work try this one and then click "view the video". It's pretty long. You might be bale to skip the phone interview stuff (the face to face...

Conversation questions: suspension for self defense? how parents teach kids to react to bullies? - Here's the story. A little skinny kid throws a few punches at a chubby kid before the bigger kid body slams the skinny kid. Here are a few native speakers talking about the issue. This could serve for language models...

Website review: Drew's fluency lessons - Drew's fluency lessons is brought to you by an ESL and Spanish teacher in Austin, TX. The purpose of the sites is to "focus on every day expressions used in daily situations" and to that end the home page features...

An introduction to job interviews - The first one is for students to discuss - there's a core message or two in there about being honest and being resourceful. The rest are all jokes - I would use either the Monte Python or the 2 Seinfelds...

Online training vs. face to face TESOL certificate - A question I received: I am a student at VCU, and Saw some of your information on ESLGO.com, Could you possible give me some information on ESL online training that would enable me to teach english in vietnam? Reply I...

What does it say when a high school boy refuses to wrestle a high school girl? - This is a fairly interesting discussion topic for me, possibly because I used to wrestle in high school. Anyhow, in the Iowa state wrestling tournament a boy chose not to wrestle a girl. To facilitate discussion, their names are Joel...

Heavy discussion topic: should government educate people about how to stay safe on drugs? - Interesting article here. Obviously a topic for adult students who might have all different kinds of reasons for thinking this is a good or bad policy. A few sample arguments: Pro: Harm reduction efforts like those outlined above are far...

What does it mean to be a man? Miller Lite commercials tell us something about US culture - An interesting discussion would be: "does it mean the same thing to be a man in your country?" This conversation topic has been mentioned before. For example Americans often think Korean men are effeminate.Two of the reasons are skinny jeans...

Cathy Cruz Marrero: Nobody took my feelings into consideration - Not one single person went to my aid. These are quotes from Cathy Cruz Marrero AKA "Fountain Lady". Not only did no one come to her aid but fountain lady's lawyer says that mall security helped get the video on...

Adult only roleplay: Peter Freuchen accidentally propositioning an eskimo girl - I was reading The Adventurer's Handbook just now and there was an interesting bit about explorer Peter Freuchen. This is a cultural difference that adult learners might find fun. It should also be useful in that it gives students a...

Extra credit writing assignments - 1. Describe a typical day in the life of a 4th or 5th grade Korean kid. Be as detailed as possible. Instead of a typical day you may choose to describe a day you remember from elementary school that was...

Does the Cornell professor's reprimand over a loud yawn go too far? - I learned about this from a message board where most people said the Cornell professor was behaving just fine and that there's no real problem with reminding college students to be polite. There were also, some people, who thought...

The beginning of the World Schools 2010 debate chanpionship - The Prime Minister begins after a few minutes in part 2 and continues into part 3. The Opposition Leader begins his speech in the middle of part 3. THW never bail out big companies. Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/user/debaterandskeptic#p/u/7/f4ZMqQy_dV4 part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlExL_lmKsY...

CNN Crossfire videos from Youtube - A few CNN Crossfire videos for students to discuss as an introduction to public forum debates. The space program - is it too expensive? Flag burning & Nelson Mandela: Crossfire - does it suck?...

They deserved to get kicked off that plane - debate & discussion speaking activity - Gonna try something new today - a quasi-roleplay for debate / discussion. Normally for debate class we do formal academic style debates but one of the goals for the class is for students to be able to apply their logic...