Category Archives: reflecting on teaching

Emergent phonology

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Ceri Jones

I’m teaching a group of C1 students at the moment. They’re university lecturers and the main aim of the course is to boost their confidence in their ability to teach through the medium of English.  Our brief for this term … Continue reading →

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Processing the exam

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Ceri Jones

listen by lambda_X on flickr The class I’m teaching at the moment is a mixed teenage and adult class, and all the students are hoping at some time over the next year to take the Cambridge FCE exam. At the … Continue reading →

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Attention breeds attention

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Ceri Jones

This is a very short observation of a very small phenomenon, nothing new or ground-breaking, but something I wanted to explore.  I’ve noticed it a couple of times recently in my current class of mixed teens and adults. The first … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on reflecting

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Ceri Jones

[This post was also published on the British Council Teaching English blog. ] I’m two weeks into a new course with a new class and one of the questions on the BC blog this month got me thinking about how … Continue reading →

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Walking the walk?

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Ceri Jones

(the palm trees that framed our conversations in the gardens at Oxford House) Last weekend I attended the first Innovate Conference at Oxford House in Barcelona.  It was a great experience and one that we all appreciated very much. A big thanks is in … Continue reading →

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Is this flippin’ worth it?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Ceri Jones

shared by carterse on flickr under a creative commons licence In this post I want to look back at a series of activities I used with my beginners class last year with a couple of questions in mind.  First some … Continue reading →

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looking back, looking forward

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Ceri Jones

Yesterday was the last class of term with my beginners class.   The night before I sat at my computer and went through our lesson summaries from the last three months. I wanted to take stock of what we’d done.  As … Continue reading →

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100 words

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Ceri Jones

Following on from the class I wrote about in the last post , I received this piece of homework from one of the students.  I’ve added the photo as it’s one of my favourite beaches too – cows and all! TEXT: MY  … Continue reading →

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What’s my role?

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Ceri Jones

[part of an on-going series about teaching an A1.1 class using a negotiated-syllabus approach] As soon as we’d finished our class yesterday, I sat down at the computer to write a summary – not for the class, but for myself.  … Continue reading →

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following a thread

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Ceri Jones

A storm has blown up once again in the blogosphere over grammar McNuggets and it got me thinking about how I serve them up with my present class of beginners. So I decided to pick out one particular nugget and … Continue reading →

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