Teaching Routines Saves Time and Headaches

Sometimes I have noticed in English learning classrooms the lack of classroom management especially in classes where the teacher is there only once or twice a week.  You have so little time that you are in a hurry to get started teaching English.  The problem is that the time you gain by starting right away is wasted by misbehavior and interruptions.  In his post "How to Teach Routines,"...

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Great Game for Learning American Idioms

At vocabulary.co.il you can find various American idiom games.  The games are flash and are very simple to use. Some games are matching games and others are multiple choice. If you are not sure what it means "to let the cat out of the bag" you can choose from 4 choices before time runs out. The...

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Para aprender ingles primero cree que puedes

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”  ― Henry Ford   Esta cita de Henry Ford, siempre me ha gustado, porque tiene mucha razón.  Si no creemos poder lograr algo no pondremos de nuestra parte lo necesario para lograrlo y será un hecho que no lo logremos.  En cambio si creemos que podemos lograrlo haremos todo lo necesario para lograrlo y...

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It's Your Choice to Learn English

"Teachers can open the door but it's your choice whether to walk through or not" You can be in the best English school or academy, you can have a dedicated an talented teacher, but if you are not willing to put your part into learning English there is only little a teacher can do for you.  If you decide to walk through and commit yourself to learning English you will. When I first went to...

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Using Youtube to Improve Your English

One great way that I have found to improve your English Listening skills is to watch TV or Movies in English.  Theatres with Version Original movies in Madrid are not the norm as a matter of fact ironically there are not that many with all the interest there is in learning English you would think there would be more.  Considering all my students claim that countries that don't voice over...

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How to Get Your English Teaching Organized

At a Teacher Conference toward my third year teacher a colleague showed me the book that would have saved me so much headache had I had it on my first year.  "The Organized Teacher."  A lifesaver even for experienced teacher's.  The authors have taken so much guess work out of organizing...

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Using Eric Carle books to Teach English

One great way to teach Young Learner's English and make it both enriching and more effective is to teach with Children's Literature.  Of course you have to adapt the Literature you use to your ELL students level.  If your students are in 4th of primary or lower, one great author to use is...

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Using Cooperative Learning in CLIL

Teaching English in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a better way than the old teach grammar, where students know all the tenses of the verb to be but have no idea how to use it in a conversation.  But CLIL by itself isn't the answer either. Teaching Science in English...

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