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 start to understand and comprehend abstract concepts like subject or the agent of the action, ...

 Sometimes the simplest activities can be the most fun!  This past week for our cooking activity (life skills, measurement  reading) we made lemonade and then delivered it around the building (social skills & communication) and the kids loved it! It was so easy, but we got so much out of it. We started with gathering the items we would ...

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. One I use a lot is online: Wordreference. Then, go on with more reading and getting ...

Each week on Tuesday my students do a ''Question of the week''. They each have a sheet with a question on a clipboard. We walk around the school (usually to the front office, cafeteria, nurses office, etc.) and ask our question of various people. Some students do this verbally while others use a communication device. This activity allows us to ...

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, “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, context… if you wish to learn, and acquire, a language, for instance English, invest ...

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 have more weapons to carry on writing. But, also, however, and... henceforth, ...

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, “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 in something like that. In Spain, more and more students are taking English classes, at ...