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Category Archives: thoughts on learning
In the flow
[photo credit Nathan Hall, eltpics, Water] A very small thing has prompted me to write again. It was a speaking task, an incredibly simple speaking task that I hadn’t expected to take off as it did. It was the first … Continue reading
Processing the exam
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
Posted in exams, lesson ideas, live listening, pronunciation, reflecting on teaching, thoughts on learning
Tagged exams, FCE, live listening
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Attention breeds attention
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
looking back, looking forward
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
Posted in reflecting on teaching, thoughts on learning, thoughts on teaching
Tagged beginners, boardwork, lesson plan, reflection
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100 words
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
What’s my role?
[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
Posted in musings, reflecting on teaching, thoughts on learning, thoughts on teaching
Tagged beginners, conversation
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following a thread
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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Tagged beginners, conversation, grammar, learning
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every board tells a story?
This is the third post in a short series about teaching beginners. You can see the first and second posts here and here. This was our board at the end of the second lesson. ( Click on the photo to … Continue reading
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Tagged beginners, boardwork, dialogue, pronunciation, reflection, using video
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first steps
In my last post I talked about a new class I’m teaching and some of the thoughts coming out of the first lesson. In this post I’m moving on to lesson two … Of course, no lesson is an island, … Continue reading
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Tagged beginners, language, less is more, reflection
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