Comments on: Languages Out There http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-websites/languages-out-there/ because you teach English Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:18:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: anita Adnan http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-websites/languages-out-there/#comment-13167 anita Adnan Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:20:33 +0000 http://edition.tefl.net/?p=1390#comment-13167 I love the lesson plans! as an English intructor, what i need is a proven system to teach online and start a lesson in a jiffy, and i think EOT is well planned to do that. As a mom, i am grateful that now i have a system that allows me to stay at home and teach online - anywhere in the world. Thanks English Out There! I love the lesson plans! as an English intructor, what i need is a proven system to teach online and start a lesson in a jiffy, and i think EOT is well planned to do that. As a mom, i am grateful that now i have a system that allows me to stay at home and teach online – anywhere in the world. Thanks English Out There!

]]> By: Eric Roth http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-websites/languages-out-there/#comment-6626 Eric Roth Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:15:27 +0000 http://edition.tefl.net/?p=1390#comment-6626 This detailed review captures both the great interest in online teaching and tutoring - and the effective way that languagesoutthere.com materials help meet that acute need. Thank you for sharing this information - and I will have to consider purchasing the materials for my Vietnamese high school students. This detailed review captures both the great interest in online teaching and tutoring – and the effective way that languagesoutthere.com materials help meet that acute need.

Thank you for sharing this information – and I will have to consider purchasing the materials for my Vietnamese high school students.

]]> By: Alex Case http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-websites/languages-out-there/#comment-6488 Alex Case Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:01:57 +0000 http://edition.tefl.net/?p=1390#comment-6488 Please note Jason's correction of the number of levels and worksheets per level that are available. The site's address is www.languagesoutthere.com, should you wish to visit Please note Jason’s correction of the number of levels and worksheets per level that are available. The site’s address is http://www.languagesoutthere.com, should you wish to visit

]]> By: Jason West http://edition.tefl.net/reviews/esl-websites/languages-out-there/#comment-6390 Jason West Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:02:36 +0000 http://edition.tefl.net/?p=1390#comment-6390 Thanks for the review Clare, I'm really glad you liked the site and materials and especially pleased with this comment "What online teachers, myself included, are looking for are easy to access, easy to use, informative and well structured worksheets". The idea all along with our materials was to provide teachers with a complete class product (not just bits and bobs) of easy to use and interesting materials that allowed them to teach and kept students motivated through the use of real practice of the target language. It has taken us eight years of teaching and development to get to this point and these lessons and materials have been used hundreds of times with paying students so we know they work and make life easy for those who teach them. I also appreciate you picking up on the informal language and use of idioms in them, we wanted to make the language used as current as possible and it seems that we achieved that. There's nothing like having a fresh pair of eyes go over what you have created. The use of VoIP/Skype/social networks is something I am really interested in and our lessons fit that medium perfectly for the practice element because they are all constructed around the intended use of the language in conversation with a fluent or native speaker. We really hope that more teachers like you find our site, give the materials a go and tell other teachers, as it is our aim to help teachers and students get the most out of the technology we all now have access to online. We are starting to experiment with www.meetup.com (for face to face teaching in free public places) and have become a partner of www.italki.com and feel sure that our materials, all 20 lesson plans and worksheets at each of the six levels, are capable of enabling any teacher, anywhere, to create their own on and offline Out There school and we intend to continue to keep trying to help and support teachers to do just that. An English school in Jaipur, India, has been a member of the site for a couple of months and now want to help us translate the plans into Hindi and sell them into the rest of India, so we are getting good feedback and hopefully more teachers and students will find our site and tell others about it. Thanks again for your great review. Cheers Jason Thanks for the review Clare, I’m really glad you liked the site and materials and especially pleased with this comment “What online teachers, myself included, are looking for are easy to access, easy to use, informative and well structured worksheets”.

The idea all along with our materials was to provide teachers with a complete class product (not just bits and bobs) of easy to use and interesting materials that allowed them to teach and kept students motivated through the use of real practice of the target language.

It has taken us eight years of teaching and development to get to this point and these lessons and materials have been used hundreds of times with paying students so we know they work and make life easy for those who teach them.

I also appreciate you picking up on the informal language and use of idioms in them, we wanted to make the language used as current as possible and it seems that we achieved that. There’s nothing like having a fresh pair of eyes go over what you have created.

The use of VoIP/Skype/social networks is something I am really interested in and our lessons fit that medium perfectly for the practice element because they are all constructed around the intended use of the language in conversation with a fluent or native speaker. We really hope that more teachers like you find our site, give the materials a go and tell other teachers, as it is our aim to help teachers and students get the most out of the technology we all now have access to online.

We are starting to experiment with http://www.meetup.com (for face to face teaching in free public places) and have become a partner of http://www.italki.com and feel sure that our materials, all 20 lesson plans and worksheets at each of the six levels, are capable of enabling any teacher, anywhere, to create their own on and offline Out There school and we intend to continue to keep trying to help and support teachers to do just that.

An English school in Jaipur, India, has been a member of the site for a couple of months and now want to help us translate the plans into Hindi and sell them into the rest of India, so we are getting good feedback and hopefully more teachers and students will find our site and tell others about it.

Thanks again for your great review.

Cheers

Jason

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