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Teacher A said to teacher B, “A powerful activity or game that you can implement in classes are Debates. With this activity students practice and acquire competencies they could need in their future, like presentations, argumentation, selecting points Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “I’ve seen in my classes how young kids speak in English as another means to communicate, together with Spanish, their mother tongue. On the other side and from my experience of teaching retired people, they trend to translate, Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “My adult students, retired people, are starting to speak in English. Now I address them by their names, and ask them for example to summarize one paragraph of the story I wrote on a worksheet, which I had handed out to them Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “In the classes of English there are like two large groups: low-achievers and high-achievers, if I talk in simple terms. What to do with varied students and mix-abilities? There’s not a simple solution and all I’ve tried is Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “I give credits to my students – now I’m referring to the adults. I don’t tell them to do any homework, they study though. They work on the worksheets I hand them out. With perseverance they can reach high standards. Namely Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “What do we do to speak in English, as I told you on post # 1033? I ask them to describe the meaning of a word, or to describe a picture from a general-content magazine, or it’s me who says the meaning and they say the word. Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “I’m achieving my students to speak in English. They make many errors and mistakes but so what? The important thing is there is communication. I tell them very few corrections: they’ll polish the language tentatively with Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “I teach English to a group of just retired people plus a girl – the center is between the oldie generation and the young one. From the beginning I thought I wouldn’t set homework. I hand them out worksheets in classes. Nevertheless Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “If someone really wishes to learn and acquire English or any other modern language, he has to plunge into the water, he has to take risks, he has to practice as much as possible, he has to make good use of chances to speak Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “Today I have achieved that some of my students have spoken a bit more in English. Anyway, that’s okay but I have to achieve more, achieve that all the students speak more in English in the class. Well, things like this take Read More...
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Teacher B said to teacher A, “I have gotten to speak in English nearly all the class of English. However, now the thing is that they, the students, would speak more than what they’re doing now. Ok, they will have to describe objects, describe a photo Read More...
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Great and expert H. D. Brown said, Virtually every strategy or gimmick that has been mentioned so far in this book can become a little game. And remember, games are fun. You can take a lighthearted perspective on this language learning process of yours Read More...
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One day teacher B said to teacher A, “These days both of us, my students and I are enjoying conversation sessions with a native speaker that is from Manhattan. She’s great. These speaking sessions take one hour. Yesterday, Tuesday March 21 we had one Read More...
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One day teacher A said to teacher B, “Learning a language depends on oneself. H. D. Brown, about whom I wrote a journal paper, often says “your own…”. In this blog I’ve said many things about that paper and an interesting book by H. D. Brown. Success Read More...
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One day teacher B said to teacher A, “One way you can count on is to repeat and repeat the same message to your students, for them to put nice behavior into themselves. And you should say the message in a positive way, maybe smiling, or even neutral: Read More...
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