One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “One way of making the students communicate in the target language has to do with the functional methodology. The teacher has to provoke saying something in English, the target language. The teacher describes in the first language a situation, a realistic one, where the student has to ...

  One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Solving problems can be an activity that helps practice and play with the English language as a vehicle to do something else.  For example, some weeks ago both my students and I had got to decide what date we should finish the classes of a course. I’m referring to a course I’ve taught ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Look, one practical tip for your classes, concerning communication in English. When you don’t know a word in English – you’re not a native speaker of this language, but really need to say that word, what to do? I try to explain the word, in English; I try to explain the meaning, ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “On post #259 I gave you a lot of activities and games that may help our students play with English, and construct sentences or texts in English. With passing months and years I’ve invented more games/activities and as well learned from the reactions and ways of doing things by the ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Problem-solving tasks is a very useful activity to practice authentic speaking in English, and also to learn new vocabulary. I’ve done this activity with my students a few times. It’s great, look. Once a task to carry out was about what to build and what not in a beautiful natural ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Yes, you’re referring to metacognitive strategies. One example of activity to utilize this strategy. Look. In the class, your students, with your help, plan a written test of the unit you’ve just finished this week. Your students already know what your tests are like. Now they are the ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of Englsh A, “Immersion, yes. Let’s make our students relate, mentally link any of us with English, in the halls and offices of the school alike. Albeit both them and us are the same nationality, in our case, Spanish, this way of conducting may be useful. Try this conducting at the school, even when ...

Here is a summary of points that may be considered when teaching a language, in my opinion. I have also taken them from my former blog. Any useful? I mixed some ideas of mine and some by scholars, like for example pedagogue Víctor García Hoz. 1. Learning a language should be a profoundly human process. 2. It serves communication among people. 3. ...

Here you have a post by a teacher, published on British Council – BBC’s website about teaching English. And an answer by me; I suppose one of the replies by other teachers. Hi everybody! My name is Valeria. I'm a teacher of English from Argentina. I'm carrying out a research paper on How to evaluate speaking skill. Have you ever reflected upon ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Challenging activities. Your students like them. Yesterday a new activity came up to me. I was with my students in the classroom. Oh, I had forgotten to take a piece of chalk, a new one. I was on the point to up and go to take one. But then I thought otherwise: I should say to one ...