I've been asked by a friend to ask members of my lists if they have a favourite, recommendable approach to teaching/dealing with conversation lessons -...
Hello everyone, I started classes this week and I think that it would be a great activity for our students to have the chance to have some chat sessions during...
Hi One of my classes like to chat during class a lot (but not in English). Maybe I should plan a session for them to chat in English. However, they are young...
Su, A spontaneous thought is: Is your learners' English at a stage yet where chat is possible? Dennis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi, That's exactly the reason why I put "I wonder..." there. However, maybe there is a possibility that this is the way to encourage them to learn English...
Christian (and anyone else) I would love to set up a chat with students. My email adress is mike _ corea @ yahoo dot com. Please let me know about your classes...
Maybe you haven't yet spotted this: http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/naturalgrammar/ Discuss... (said in low, whispering tone with outstretched arms...
I watched a movie, "Freedom Writers." In the film, Ms. G inspired her students to learn by relating learning material/topic to their daily life such a...
with all respect to dogme, as the matter of fact rather out of deferrence to dogme: Mrs G was a good teacher period. not everything thats good equals dogme....
Dear all, I have just been covering for a colleague who was away and had to start an exam group and they were using a textbook as the students had paid for the...
Dear John, Where and how do you do that? If I did it I'd be sacked. I hate the books too, but often it is how you are able to use the book that counts, no?...
Hi I think there is no right or wrong with or without textbook. It depends on who and where you teach. For me, as a primary school teacher, teaching young...
Dear Nicholas and others, I freelance at a number of institutions and to the institutions I offer to build the syllabus with the participants. So the engineers...
Dear John and others, I am working freelance too because I couldn't stand the structured page by page terrorism metered out by the academies. I would describe...
... and thirdly who you are. To me the crucial thing is that I trained as a teacher in an environment where I was expected to write and develop my own material...
I taught elementary school (regular state day school) without textbook and it was at the specific request of the students. that is, the first year that it...
regular group can be twenty to twenty four, aged from six to fifteen. the older students may get a division which works out to maximum twenty students. I don't...
Hi Zosia What story books do you choose to work on and how do you lead the class normally? Do you transalte stories all the time or do some other activities...
I don't usually choose story books for the students. they create their own stories either together as a group or in smaller groups/individually for their...
Hi Zosia Sound interesting. Could you say more about what kind/content of stories do your students create? And do they create these stories in mother tougue...
I hope the exchange is interesting for the rest of the list, otherwise we could shift it to off-list. if anyone feels we are getting boring, please tell us to...
Gosia (and Su) I can assure you that it is extremely interesting! One of the most interesting, in my view. There is so much in this post alone - the detail on...
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Can I echo this. The dialogue is very useful - and genuine on both sides....
Hi Zosia As I mentioned before, I have around 350 students and it is both time and energy exhausted correcting/checking all the students' homework. So, I...
Su, My remark is not very helpful, but I cannot resist saying that you cannot be better than the system in which you are working. Those seriously emotionally ...
I do think that teachers should avoid resorting to DOGME pur DOGME's sake like in l'art pur l'art at any cost just because the teachers are fed up with...
Hi Zosia One more question that I forget to ask in my last post is that how do you know that the work you do is relevant to all the students? thanks su...
Hi Natasha and Zosia and all Teachers should apply different teaching approach according to/depending on their teaching enviornments and situations. (dogme is...
Hi Dennis Thanks for the message. The boy does need more helps from more different people/social aid but I am not sure if the family could afford it. su...
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