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Teacher A said to teacher B, “It’s ok to approach a communicative way of the class of English but if you wanna reinforce grammar or use it for clarification, you should know that kids of ‘6º Primaria’ (k6?) are the ones – if they’re smart enough – to Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “Some clues for working out a text in English? Ok, look. The first thing is understanding it. We’re talking about advanced-level texts, right? So the student should read the text over and over, with the allied army of a dictionary. 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, “Intuition is a key factor to learn and acquire a foreign or second language. We receive some clues about what two people are talking about: we understand some words, we perceive gestures, face expressions, intonation, repetition, Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “Writing is a process. Writing compositions can be like writing about one point, period, next idea or point. It’s a sequence. An imaginative one. Have your students write like I’m telling you. If you give them linkers, they’ll 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 B said to teacher A, “For next year or upcoming ones we could make an interdisciplinary nature with some school subjects in English: science, history, literature in English, chemistry, technology. In some schools the faculty of teachers are engaged Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, "Adults and young people can acquire the foreign language, not only learn it. They need to receive massive input and intake, for example orally. Then they start to acquire the language, like babies. Although we're referring Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “If no words, no communication. I knew a teacher, a committed one, who used to assign as homework to study lists of vocabulary (and other homework). His students achieved to learn a lot of words, usual words, common words, Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “In our school, in a town of the south of Spain, not Granada, we teachers of English used to send some voluntary students to Ireland for some weeks in September, at the beginning of the academic year. They lived with carefully Read More...
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Teacher A said to teacher B, “Something sound is making real communication in English in classes. Don’t worry for you may think the students won’t understand. It matters little. Something, just necessary, is massive listening to, before speaking. What 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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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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