... supportive, and I now await for opponents of this dire crime to howl with indignation MD Hello all, ... of ... much ... by, "in ... and ... mean?) ... ...
everything seems to have gone quiet on the dogme list. Is everyone working their socks off? I have been teaching: A little cycle of do it -> review it ->...
Why are they petrified of smalltalk? cheers, Linda ... From: John N. Q. Warner <johnnqwarner@...> Subject: [dogme] So we are three weeks into September and...
German culture - does not encourage it in business and formal settings. EVERY group I have worked with so far in Germany have asked for help with smalltalk. In...
I've been wondering what's up with the list, too. But, as Dennis often tells me, lists go through lulls like this. Maybe we need more small talk? :-) Speaking...
Hello. No doubt chitchat's an art form and I too teach it. In fact, it's an accredited part of some language courses in the UK - also very useful since it...
Rob and list, Another thought is: some of us have been sounding off on dogme about this, that and everything for so very long now. It would be refreshing to...
Hmmm... small talk is hard if you don't know what to talk about. So if I may be so bold... part of the German "stereotypical" characteristics include the...
Karenne - gold, gold. What's more appreciated by practising teachers than practical suggestions based on experience? Unstructured small talk, of course, is...
A good teacher can make a bad textbook work but a good textbook cannot make a bad teacher better. Can some people just teach with any resource - not just a bad...
Thanks Dennis ;-) And yes, it is so much easier - giving them some structure (at least for the Germans) as it takes the "oh lord, do I really have to talk to ...
As I hurry to finish my green tea and make my way to work... I don't think it's just German learners who find structure helpful and comfortable when faced with...
well - a friend had some businessmen who were doing English and in the classroom they were all on first name terms and could do it. Then they went for on a...
Interesting how this thread started with a bit of small talk from John: 'everything seems to have gone quiet on the dogme list. Is everyone working their socks...
Luke
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This is my alter ego writing - if we (so-called dogmeists), use planning and routines aren't we breaking one of the holy rules: "Be spontaneous and don't ...
Planning in the sense of being rigid is a problem for me - planning as in helping me have material relating to the students etc. is crucial. I think if I did...
... cannot ... textbook - ... Interesting topic, especially since you say that you will teach one class with a textbook, one without. As I see it, part of the...
Hello everyone. I am appealing for some ideas from those dogmetics/dogmetists (?) who have taught/are teaching English to Chinese people. I have a very good...
Wow! This is an active group ;-) ya miss a day and you're almost lost! And speaking of being lost, I'm with John. Perhaps, in being dogme..oh lord, how do you...
MakeBeliefsComix.com Online Educational Comics Launches WRITER PROMPTS to Help ESL, Literacy Students Write, Read and Tell Stories; Google Lists Among World's...
When you say 'difficulty with writing', what exactly do you mean - spelling, the construction of sentences, formation of letters etc? Rita ... -- Rita Baker BA...
Hello Rita. I think I have some ideas about how to approach the spelling aspect - it's sentence construction really - but I need to get behind the peculiar...
Chinese syntax is their grammar - in the sense that it is rigorously: 1) Subject Verb Object (this works well when English is SVO - in statements but more ...
just like the word "love" can be a noun and a verb in English - there are a lot of words around that can be a verb, an adjective and a noun depending on the...
I think this simple 15 minute video from Teacher TV could interest anyone concerned with primary school teaching and ICT. I was especially struck by the...
Ingrid, your sister, and all others who have noticed that I omitted the URL to the video about ICT in the primary school, including pupils with learning ...
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