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 ...

One of the things that I always worry about is spelling. I remember when I was in Teacher’s College, how “irritated” I would be whenever I spotted spelling mistakes in my classmates assignments! They always joked about it; they thought it was cute that I was so concerned about their writing and spelling mistakes . However, I felt that as future ...

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 they read and work on those worksheets at home.” / Photo from: millysmuse blogspot ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “I have two new students in my course of English.  I gave the worksheets we’ve worked on lately to the first lady in joining us, because she asked me for them. The second student asked me last Monday whether we follow any course book. I told her we don’t – I hand out photocopies of the ...

 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 ...

~ Don't confuse high levels of student engagement with compliance... these are two very different things. ''Drive'' by Daniel Pink - The surprising truth about what motivates us 10 simple strategies to increase student engagement by Chris McGee Fighting engagement deficit disorder by Catlin Tucker

Welcome to the world of Harry Potter! We have just finished creating fabulous resources to go along with J.K. Rowling's hit novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. We hope are able to use the activities we have created in your classroom. They are geared for students in grades 4-6. We have created a zipped bundle folder in Microsoft Word ...

Teachers, if you are teaching about solids in geometry, use these free worksheets in your classroom for your students to match 3D shapes (cubes, cuboids, cones, cylinders, pyramids and prisms) to their nets and names. Jut click on the picture above to instantly download it as a Google doc. This is a sample of my eBook 3D Shapes with their Nets and ...

Teachers, if you are teaching about solids in geometry, use these free worksheets in your classroom for your students to match 3D shapes (cubes, cuboids, cones, cylinders, pyramids and prisms) to their nets and names. Jut click on the picture above to instantly download it as a Google doc. This is a sample of my eBook 3D Shapes with their Nets and ...

One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “A few years ago I taught English to recently retired people, most of which had earned a university degree and worked as such professions as they had studied. Nice people, very nice. And we had fun. We had two classes per week. They had enrolled the course to improve their English, to ...