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	<title>Joe McVeigh</title>
	<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org</link>
	<description>ESL consulting, training, writing &#38; editing</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Conference presention slides and handouts</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2012/04/14/conference-presention-slides-and-handouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EFL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Handouts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Resources]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[curriculum development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arabia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CATESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ESL]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Presentations]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[slides. PowerPoint]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for conference presentation slides and handouts?  Try this page first. The most recent presentations are at the top. In most cases you can download the PowerPoint slides and handout. You can usually also view the PowerPoint on SlideShare. You can download from there, as well, but because of all the images, some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to get copies of my books</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2012/04/09/where-to-get-copies-of-my-books/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2012/04/09/where-to-get-copies-of-my-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Materials development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Q: Skills for Success]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tips for Teaching Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks very much to those of you in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere who have expressed interest in my Tips for Teaching Culture book.  If you are outside the U.S., the best way to get a copy of this book is from the Pearson international website.  Be sure to check the shipping information to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming conferences</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2012/02/16/upcoming-conferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EFL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[curriculum development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[speaking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher-training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[CATESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[conference]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[plenary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TESOL Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, all! Conference season is just about upon us. This winter and spring I&#8217;ll be giving talks at TESOL Arabia in Dubai, TESOL in Philadelphia, a symposium on English language teaching in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and then at CATESOL in Oakland. The brief audio file below gives more details—well, the topics at least. Hope to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Figuring out the frequency of two word verbs</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/12/21/figuring-out-the-frequency-of-two-word-verbs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/12/21/figuring-out-the-frequency-of-two-word-verbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 21:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EFL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Materials development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[curriculum development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[speaking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher-training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[American English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[British English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[corpus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Di-lin Liu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[frequency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[phrasal verbs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quarterly]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[two-word verbs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The December 2011  TESOL Quarterly contains a  wonderful study by Dilin Liu analyzing the frequency of phrasal verbs  across several corpora. This is a really useful article for teachers and  materials writers, with lots of great information in it and a valuable  companion to his 2003 corpus study on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson planning</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/10/10/lesson-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/10/10/lesson-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[curriculum development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher-training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[class]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lesson planning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[organization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[planning]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[preparation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[student teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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How much time do you spend preparing your lessons in advance? Are you a planner? Or do you like to let the lesson take its own course?
As a young student teacher I learned how to carefully plan my lessons. I would write out exactly what I planned to do during each part of the fifty-minute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class chemistry</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/09/26/class-chemistry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/09/26/class-chemistry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[chemistry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[class chemistry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ELT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ESL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[TESOL]]></category>

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Have you ever taught a class that just never seemed to come together? Or one in which the students all worked together really well? Do you think that classes have their own personalities?
I first learned about the concept of class chemistry as a student teacher. My master teacher, a wonderful woman named Martha Bean, commented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q Reading and Writing Intro now available</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/09/09/q-reading-and-writing-intro-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/09/09/q-reading-and-writing-intro-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EFL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Materials development]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Q: Skills for Success]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ELT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ESL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Bixby]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Joe McVeigh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oxford University Press]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Q Skills for Sucess]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[series]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[textbook]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to announce that my latest ESL textbook, coauthored with Jenny Bixby is now available. It is the introductory level of Q: Skills for Success, the Reading/Writing strand.  Like our other book in the Q series, this level has entertaining readings, solid vocabulary-building activities, and a wonderful graphic feel, with loads of photos to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips on remembering student names</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/29/tips-on-remembering-student-names/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/29/tips-on-remembering-student-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[teacher-training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[names]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[remembering]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[students]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[techniques]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I am not good at remembering names and faces. In the small town where I live,  I am constantly running into people and trying to recall if I know them from my son’s school or from musical theater or from church or just where we might have met.
So you can imagine the difficulty I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom horror stories</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/10/classroom-horror-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/10/classroom-horror-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[EFL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Program Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[classrooms]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[cold]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hot]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job conditions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[students]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[uncomfortable]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[unsuitable]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
We’ve been having a heat wave in Vermont, in the northeastern United States where I live. The temperature has reached 95° F (35° C). It’s actually hotter here than it was in Saudi Arabia when I visited in the spring. It got me thinking about the effect of heat and other discomforts on our classes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What teachers inspired you?</title>
		<link>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/04/what-teachers-inspired-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemcveigh.org/2011/08/04/what-teachers-inspired-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[TESOL]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher-training]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[attendance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[conjunction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[effective]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[English]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[high school]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[inspirational]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Joe McVeigh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[methods]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parts of speech]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[realia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[role model]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teachers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Donovan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my most memorable teachers was a high school English teacher.  Thomas Donovan had been teaching for nearly forty years and was in his  sixties when I had him as a 14-year-old student. He was what today we would call “old school.” That is, he was very traditional in the way  [...]]]></description>
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