Welcome to TESOL Resources from Kitty

I use this wiki to make my conference presentations and ESL/EFL materials available.  Hope it's useful to you!

--Kitty Purgason, Biola University

Stand Up and Move: Review Activities that Keep Students Awake - a presentation at CATESOL 2019, San Jose

Adapting Materials and Activities for Multilevel Classes - a presentation at CATESOL 2019, San Jose

Teaching overseas to invigorate your teaching - a presentation at CATESOL 2017, Santa Clara

2017 presentations from Tajikistan (where I had a Fulbright grant) can be found at http://tesolresourcesfromkittytajikistan.pbworks.com

Significant Topics and Activity Templates for Great Conversation Classes

CELT Baltimore 2016

Multi-level Activities with Proverbs

CATESOL Santa Clara October 2014

I also did a version of this presentation at CELT Toronto 2015

Adapting Authentic Texts for Spiritually Valuable and Pedagogically Useful Lessons

CELT Dallas March 2013

Authentic Materials to Motivate Students

CATESOL Los Angeles Regional March 2013

Authentic Materials (using Angela Duckworth's TED Talk about grit) presented in Henan in June 2013)

Presentations for teachers in Spain (September 2012) are available at

http://tesolresourcesfromkittyspainclil.pbworks.com

(related to content and language integrated learning in bilingual classrooms) and

http://tesolresourcesfromkittyspaingc.pbworks.com/

(related to teaching English for the Global Classrooms program) and

http://tesolresourcesfromkittyspainspeaking.pbworks.com/

(related to teaching oral skills in adult classes)

Is English a Force for Good or Bad - NACLFA

March 2012

Is English a Force for Good or Bad

CELT HK January 2012

Student-created Practice Activities   powerpoint

CELT HK January 2012

Student-created Practice Activities handout

Current Trends in ELT

Current Trends in ELT (longer)

Two versions of a presentation I did for UPH Indonesia in Nov 2011

Essentials of Teaching Conversation

TESOL 2010, Boston

Critical Thinking and Courteous Conversation in a World of Choices

CELT 2010, Boston

gods of business

an advanced lesson based on a public radio interview

I have more presentations, which I gave in Kuwait, Oman, Tajikistan, China, and Vietnam in spring 2011. They were on a posterous site which has been discontinued. I'll try to put them up here.

I have more presentations, which I created for teachers in Indonesia in January 2010, at

http://tesolresourcesfromkittyIndonesia.pbworks.com

Older presentations were posted at http://tesolresourcesfromkitty.pbworks.com