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Chinese School After-Action Review
Chinese school is over for the semester. I’ve been teaching here for two years now, the longest time I’ve worked in one school. RACL is really a special place, I’m glad I could work here. I had the best class this semester, thanks to … Continue reading
Posted in Raleigh
Tagged awesome, caesar, Charlie Gordon, chinese, duds, education, games, General, latin, lessons, my students, RACL, Raleigh, teaching, teaching teenagers
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Game Review: Funky Farm 2
I really like farm management games, which is odd since I can’t keep a real plant alive, but after playing Harvest Moon, FarmCraft, Farm Frenzy and so many others, I wasn’t sure there was any room left for new farming … Continue reading
Posted in Game Reviews
Tagged casual games, duds, Funky Farm 2, Game Reviews, games, Harvest Moon, mail, Sims, SortaSoft, ThumbGods, time management, Tropical Dream
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Talent Show
On Friday, my class played Hippopotamus. This is an awesome game for mixed levels, easily modified for students’ English abilities and not mind-numbingly repetitive. You send one person into the hall while the rest of the class picks a verb. … Continue reading
Posted in Chapel Hill
Tagged awesome, Charlie Gordon, duds, LOST, mail, my students, podcast, teaching teenagers
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Who Do You Love?
I played a round of Who Do You Love? with my students on Friday. You put the chairs in a circle so almost everyone can sit down, and one person is left standing in the middle. The person in the … Continue reading
Posted in Beijing, ESL
Tagged Charlie Gordon, duds, e3, mail, my students, teaching teenagers
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Apathetically Playing Charades
I played Secretly Eating Pizza, an adverbs/verbs charades game with my teenagers yesterday and today. I put together this one for my Yantai drips, asa reward for all their hard work learning the difference between adjectives and adverbs. The game … Continue reading
Posted in Yantai
Tagged chinese, duds, games, mail, teaching language, teaching teenagers, Yantai
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