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, so those students were able to speak in English more fluently than just single ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “As you know I teach in English all the class, albeit the students may have a very basic level or on the other hand they may have some competence to speak in English. I pretend I don’t know L1, like I’ve said many times here. I think I should help the students with vocabulary for them ...

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 them to real, authentic English. You can tell them to buy a specific paper at a newstand. ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “The irregular verbs? Like you know, they keep being irregular because their use is daily. In early Medieval English most of the verbs were irregular in this sense. A few words about their learning and usage: One teacher I know told me once that the student has to learn them by studying ...

One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Active listening: when the students listen to you as explaining in English how to carry out an exercise from the text book or a game, they are actively listening to you, not simply hearing something. For example this active listening can take place when you (or a student) present, ...

Ayer leí lo siguiente que te puede hacer pensar: La vitalidad del mundo educativo es siempre un signo de esperanza. Su ágil capacidad de reacción ante los hechos que puedan afectar su encomiable tarea honra a este gran número de profesionales. Padres y profesores son los coprotagonistas del complicado viaje de aprendizaje, en el que sus hijos y ...

I just read a comment that sounds very interesting. It has been published on BBC British Council site. Written by sunseeker. About errors and mistakes. I also published one comment same topic on that web-site: you can read it on post # 370. SUNSEEKER JUNE 9 Dealing with errors and mistakes Submitted on 9 June, 2010 - 04:56 An error is an ...

This is chapter 28 from my book on TEFL, TESL, ELL. Photo from www tribuneindia com 28. Cómo aprender palabras nuevas Leyendo. Entre otras fuentes, que ahora veremos. La lectura es una fuente de modos de decir peculiares del inglés, de palabras, de enriquecimiento. Van creando un depósito, del que el hablante no nativo extrae las palabras ...

One day teacher B said to teacher A, “A few years ago I was registered in a course of English myself, at an advanced level. We were adults. We were few in the classroom, and used to talk in English most of the time, which is a good practice for advanced learners of this language (as a foreign one, EFL). The point is that in the classroom we had ...