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English Circles - 'Nobody puts baby in a corner!'
www.englishcircles.com - now with interactive google wave
Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.
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Adding Friends
Hi - new friends are visiting my site (hopefully ( Read more... ) -
English Circles - not corners!
Currently, as some of you will know, I've been conducting Conversation Classes with my Chinese students. I think this is a fantastic opportunity to get the experiencing real language, practicing naturalistically, and learning through enjoying using English.
http://www.englishcircles.com
is my attempt to get other teachers who feel that English ( Read more... ) -
What could I have done?
I wrote a few posts ago that I didn't want to be a teacher anymore... and I've got further insight into why after tonights lesson ( Read more... ) -
Learning Strategies
Hi,
I don't know if you're aware of learning strategies... I'm sure you've been told about them, or know a little about them from your training and general education... but if you're like me you have never considered that they can be useful in the classroom.
Well, now I've got a copy of Rebecca Oxford's "Learning Strategies: What every teacher should ( Read more... ) -
Writer's block?
Don't you just hate that? Today was supposed to be my next lesson in my personal development plan (improving my grammar teaching) but I just had writer's block... or is it Teacher's block, Lesson Plan block?... I don't know, but it was frustrating to say the least ( Read more... ) -
Quick thought
"You can't learn to swim, without jumping in the water" -
Google Wave
It's been a bit of a struggle to get my students involved, so far only three are participating, but they are enjoying it (or so they say) and their work is promising ( Read more... ) -
Metaphors and Similes
I used to love them in my English lessons at school, so maybe that influenced my lesson tonight, but for the first time I had Chinese students being creative, using inspired language - a melting ice-cream, a knight, a noble king, night sliding in like a projector screen, a scarecrow without a soul... I left my lesson with a heart full of joy. I've ( Read more... ) -
I don't wanna be a teacher
It's a terrible feeling when a lesson goes badly ( Read more... )