Teacher B said to teacher A, “Someone learns to read in English because he has that eagerness to learn. I’m referring to adults above all.  Concerning learning/acquiring, an adult of forty years has more mental abilities to communicate with another person than young kids. Alike to plan his learning, his will to learn, his perseverance, his ways ...

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 some days ago.  They speak, so there is communication in the target language. Some of them ...

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. We have fun, and that’s so essential.” / Photo from: innovasjomorge no. Fjord in Norway.

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 the passing time.” / Photo from: expanish com. Radio Taxi in Buenos Aires. I have a nice number ...

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 their time. I will try next class other students would speak not just sentences but would ...

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 from National Geographic, answer to questions from the worksheets I hand them out, and which ...

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 session.  We were four adult students plus me. The American girl is studying her degree in New ...

 I have planned a sequence of pieces of communication to implement along the course I teach to adult learners, most of them already retired. They’re excellent learners. They wish to learn English for example for their trips abroad. The sequence is: words – phrases – sentences – conversations and presentations. The basis for the material we use is ...

I publish a post that can be useful for teachers of advanced levels of English or any other language. The text was published January 8, 2011, on a post from this very blog. I’ve changed minor things. / Photo from: thisoldhouse com. perfect interior painting   537. Practicing for the near future Saturday, January 8, 2011 Here is a set of ...

  One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Yesterday I had my class with the kids of 10 years. You know, all I said was in English, while their aural level is so low. Well, they understood the games I implemented: with examples, gestures and body language, and you know what: they understood a nice percentage and even could ...