Hey John,
I have just finished the Global TESOL foundation course, and have no experience yet so please forgive me if you have already tried this, Get the kids to sit with a new partner, interview each other about basic things they enjoy at home, then each tells the class about the other, you make notes on vocabulary, corrections etc, then have class discussions about each profile, by asking the class to suggest alternative words or ways of expressing the content. Gradually open up the limits of the subjects to incorporate their street, neighbourhood, town, and beyond as homework, seems everyone loves to talk about themselves.
Where are their fav basketball teams located? ask them to search info on that town, the teams stars etc. then expand to the country, same with the games, aske them to discover where they were made, info about the towns and country, do they have access to atlases? Perhaps this is not a good idea atall, but could provoke some thought processes.

Cheers

Ray in Toronto :-(

Good morning Ross,

Thank you for your information, I (We all) will find it more than useful sometime in our teaching experiences wherever we travel, when I have any information regarding this I will post it here too.
Thanks again for this and all the other "posts" you publish.
Cheers

Ray

Can anybody tell me if it is possible to obtain a work permit to teach ESL if you are in Brasil as a tourist.
Are these permits/visas available in Canada?

Thanks

Ray

Hey Heather,

Marthe was very helpful, so too was Steve, I beleive they are still developing a real on-line course, what we have now
seems similar to the printed manuals, which is probably what it is, there is absolutely no instructional interactivity, just a stone cold dead PDF file full of great information, I beleive they have a good bank of distance study tutors too, but the on-line content most definitely is not true online learning.
(several years ago I was lead graphics designer in a team that produced computer based training programs for the high tech industry in Ottawa, Ontario and San Jose, California. Many years experience with this) However, really ,it all boils down to how much you learn via whats' available, I think this course is clear and easy to understand, so we should all do very well . . how about you?

Cheers

rAy

Hi Heather,

Thanks for the reply, here is an update, This morning Marthe called me from the head office, the PDF file is all there is on-line!! If you call her at 1.888.270.2941 she will answer your questions.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

rAy.

Hi Heather,
I have just started an on-line course here too, just can't find anything apart from the PDF file, are there any pages or electronic files/teaching material/guides at all? if so where?

Cheers

rAy