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!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

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What to do in the first 5 minutes of class!

In this episode, we get a little personal and candid and take a look at our new years resolutions and our subsequent successesand failures. Happy Lunar New Year!!!! Will Steve tackle his mountains? It remains to be seen.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

New Years Resolutions: Our Personal Failures and Successes with Life in Korea

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!!!!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

The Hardest Part of TEACHING ESL Abroad

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=PLakKIIiLniCCJalOrYg5wE02ncux7ml4ULearn to draw with supersimplesongs....https://supersimple.com/super-simple-draw/Christmas songs on supersimplesongs...https://supersimple.com/super-simple-songs/And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Top 5 Ways to have an Excellent Christmas ESL Class

SummaryIn 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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Exploring Gamification in the Classroom with Dustin Staats

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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Why Kindy ESL Classes are Horrible for a Hakwon

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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

The Hardest Part(s) of Running an Academy in Korea

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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

The Crazy, Stresses of a Hagwon Owner and the Sheisty People Who Cause Them

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.jennifer@englishtoinspireyou.comPlease 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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Jennifer Helfand: 15 Years of Teaching Abroad Highlighting Experiences in Spain and Volunteer Work at Refugee Camps

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.And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

What's better, teaching ESL in Korea or in America? You'll be surprised.

We had a great time chatting with Jennifer Waddell. She's currently an online ESL teacher with Palfish, but spent years abroad in Thailand and China teaching English. Check out her unique story and pay attention to her great advice on handling cultural differences.You can get in touch with Jennifer at her new blog: https://innerseagull.wordpress.com/And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Jennifer Waddell: Handling Taboos and Cultural Differences in SUPER Rural China

Keith Tacey is an American living in Vietnam as the owner and operator of a 200+ student English academy. He runs the facility with his wife and a team of great teachers. In this episode of our podcast, he tells us about his time in Vietnam, his journey into ex-pat ESL entrepreneurship, and the start of his new career as a Jolly Phonics Certified Teacher Trainer.Take a listen!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Keith Tacey: 200+ Students in Vietnam & Jolly Phonics Corporate Trainer

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.We got a chance to talk to Madeleine Grace, an ESL teacher from Washington D.C. She was a teacher in the United States who decided to take the trip abroad, and instruct in South Korea. She has an awesome story, and like our friend Kat Sten who we interviewed last time, she tells us about her adventures in Mokpo, South Korea!Take a listen!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Madeleine Grace: Master's in Curriculum Design for English Language Learners and Applying It At Jobs in South Korea

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.Kat Sten. She's a really awesome Hagwon/Academy owner in Mokpo, South Korea. Before her journey into the expat ESL teacher life, she was a member of Target's corporate staff. Why she quit that job, how she ended up living in East Asia, and where did this idea of opening an English academy come from? Well... she answers those questions while sharing a ton of golden wisdom nuggets.Take a listen!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...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-grammarAnimal Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/5-free-animal-bomb-gamesHoliday Bomb Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/english-conversation-lesson-esl-efl/6-esl-bomb-games-holidays-version

Kat Sten: After 10 Years at Target, She Now Runs an English Academy in South Korea

Welcome back to the Hal and Steve English podcast.This week we talked to Aaron R. He's been an eSL teacher in South Korea since 2008 and he's taken a really unique journey. He was first brought here as a debate teacher, but after his hagwon suddenly closed, he sought out work as an English teacher. He worked in Seoul and the Southern cities of Korea until opening up his own academy.Take a listen!And for our Hal And Steve content, get your hands on some goodies below....Teacher Memberships: https://halandsteveenglish.com/pages/...Yummy Recipe Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL UNO Master Packs: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Human Bingo: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...ESL Mafia Game: https://halandsteveenglish.com/blogs/...

Aaron R: I Came To Korea As a Debate Teacher and My Hagwon Closed in 3 Weeks

Welcome to the best Teaching ESL Abroad podcast... EVER! At least, that's what we're going to tell everyone in hopes that they'll give us a listen.We're two dudes, Hal and Steve, who chat about the practical parts of teaching esl in a foreign country. What do you do with super spoiled kids? How do you avoid the super boring after school outings? How do you avoid drinking 1 on 1 with Principal Kim because you'll wake up with the worst hangover if you do?These are the questions! We try to answer them!

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