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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 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 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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One day teacher B said to teacher A, “I guess some of my students don’t make good use of the English course book. They don’t know how to study and work on that book. They see pictures, titles, exercises, listening icons or symbols, grammar charts, drills, Read More...
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Yesterday I implemented the following activity with my adult students – all of them are retired people that wish to learn English for traveling and visiting different countries. Basically it was a listening activity, but it also had speaking and reading Read More...
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One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Just thinking. That is something some of my students fail. That failure comprises from the effort invested in doing a drill to the effort at thinking about the ethics as the main topic of a long Read More...
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One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “The teacher has to teach contents, like history, so as to give an example. The teacher has to present specific points to his or her students. The teacher is like a (or should be), like a source Read More...
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One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “When we communicate with one another we do it by using the four skills of a language: listening, speaking, reading and writing. So it is sensible you make your students practice those four skills. Read More...
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Here you have a thread post by jcl in www.teachingenglish.org.uk , which is the interesting Web site of British Council – BBC , this one now about guessing the meaning of words and phrases from the context and other must-read things. Don’t miss it; it’s Read More...
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One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Last year, one day I set as a class test, with my adult students, to make a summary of a story I had composed. The result was interesting: a remarkable number of students wrote the story again, Read More...
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One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “An activity you can implement in your classes of English is related to reading; shortly speaking, look. Can be great. If you’ve got, say, five days of classes of English per week (would be ideal!), Read More...
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One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “One of my students of secondary got 5 in a test of English - 5 is pass. He came up to me to talk about the test. I asked him what he thought about that grade. I wanted to make him draw his own Read More...
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Today I’ve translated, in case it’d be useful to someone, an email I sent to Álex’s dad and mom a couple years ago. Like you may guess, I’ve changed the names and few detais. “Álex” was a student of one of my English classes. Then he could be 12 through Read More...
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One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Using newspapers in the class of English may be very useful, believe me. This activity is for advanced level students, because they have to face with authentic and genuine language. Realia bring Read More...
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