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Category Archives: Trying out something new
Embracing uncertainty
OK. It’s been a week since I wrote my last post and I must say things have changed a lot. Well, actually, things haven’t changed at all, at least not to the better. Still, I feel my perspective has shifted … Continue reading →
Posted in Personal challenges, Trying out something new, Uncategorized
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Tagged collaboration, covid19, lessonplanning, outdoors, writing
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That Feeling When …
I don’t know about you, but for me, it’s not always easy to resume teaching on Mondays or after a holiday, especially if the break was longer than usual. I normally start the first class by asking students what they’ve experienced … Continue reading →
A flood of conversation
If you need your students to practise speaking about a specific topic, here’s a simple idea you may use in class. Let’s say you want your learners to talk about natural disasters. What a great topic to start the new … Continue reading →
Posted in Dogme teaching, Speaking, Teaching ideas, Trying out something new, Vocabulary
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The 30 questions and student thinking time
The other day I came across an interesting post by Nick Bilbrough about student thinking time, at the end of which the author poses the following question: Is student thinking time as important as student talking time? If so, what’s the best … Continue reading →
The ‘shush’ tweak and lexical priming
Did I tell you how much I love the define-and-guess-the-word activities with the ‘shush’ tweak? The tweak lies in the rule that whenever a student guesses the word (or an expression, idiom, picture, movie, etc.), they are never allowed to … Continue reading →
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Everyone is a genius.
I must admit that the older I get, the more I appreciate simplicity and spontaneity in language teaching. It makes me very happy when a beautiful, meaningful lesson grows out of something seemingly trivial or when an impromptu action leads to something … Continue reading →
Mindfulness Blog Challenge
I’m proud to announce that I’ve recently taken part in The Mindfulness Summit, a not-for-profit project with a mission to make mindfulness mainstream. Now, what is mindfulness and why am I writing about it on an ELT blog? In a nutshell, … Continue reading →
How languages should be taught
When I was registering for another ILC IH Brno conference earlier in October, I noticed that they were offering two workshops for teachers of German. This tweak immediately caught my attention, mainly because this was the first time the organizers … Continue reading →
Just a simple idea …
In one of my previous posts, I talked about a new student from Hong Kong who’d recently joined our class. He speaks next to no Czech, but he can communicate in English pretty fluently. He doesn’t get all the grammar … Continue reading →
Go light!
Everybody would probably agree that material light or material free lessons often turn out to be the best ones. I don’t know why it is so but I suspect that the feeling of not being pressed by the material one has … Continue reading →
Posted in Dogme teaching, Grammar, Linguistic issues, Speaking, Teaching ideas, Trying out something new
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Tagged authenticity, change, dogme teaching, grammar, speaking
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