Tag Archives: beginners

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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Christmas post

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Ceri Jones

Just a quick post before the holidays. This is the Christmas present I just shared with my beginners class. It’s a blog where we can store all our lesson notes and video links. I hope it’ll help them look back … Continue reading →

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getting the balance right

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Ceri Jones

This is part four in the series about my beginners class. In this and the next post I want to take a step back and look at the slightly bigger picture.  We’ve now been having classes for  a month and … Continue reading →

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every board tells a story?

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Ceri Jones

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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first steps

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Ceri Jones

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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barefoot with beginners

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Ceri Jones

A few weeks ago I started a new class. An A1.1 class.  It’s been a long time since I’ve taught beginners. Or I should say it’s been a long time since I taught English to beginners. It’s a small class. … Continue reading →

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