A distraught teacher rang me for help. She had to teach mixed age classes with two-year-olds mixed with their older siblings and other older children, aged four, five and six. She could not separate the toddlers from the older children. It was important that lessons be a success or she would be...
Teaching English Games Blog
*You'd think that it would be easy to teach English to teens using songs since they love listening to music so much. But it isn't!
Either they refuse to sing in class, and you can't blame them Or they don't like the song you chose Or the song is too vulgar Or the...
03 Dec
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It's useful to teach modal verbs of obligation comparing must and have to. But personally I'd teach them one at a time, I prefer to drill something thoroughly (using games for primary school kids , or...
30 Nov
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The Challenge from a private English tutor:
A teacher wrote to me with this problem and query: " I've just started a part-time job of teaching English as a private tutor for an 8-year-old child. I was told he was taught a lot of advanced grammar and vocabulary for his age but...
26 Nov
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