In the online Delta course I’m following, one of the tasks for the lexis unit required us to take notes on why sense relations can facilitate vocabulary learning and make lessons more interesting. It also required us to refer to examples of classroom activities and specific teaching strategies which we have used or intend to …
Author Archives: Capybara
Present tenses timelines
Sometimes as teachers we take the present tenses for granted, especially with higher level students. However, as Parrot points out in his Grammar for English Language Teachers, students often have difficulties choosing the correct tense and tend to overuse the present simple. That’s the reason why I created a series of timelines to visualise the …
New post series: Delta Tasks
Just a quick update: following advice I will be posting tasks and reflections I have been doing while working on the online Delta Module 1 preparation course I’m attending.
The posts will be mostly my own reflections on the tasks, to which anyone is welcome to add their thoughts or ideas. Their purpose is only to clarify the topics in my head and possibly to get some feedback from colleagues.
Five things I love about being a teacher
I know, this post might be a bit cheesy, but today I feel positive so I’d like to share with the blogosphere the reasons why I love teaching, and particularly teaching English in a language school (as opposed to teaching in a primary or secondary state school). Here is goes.
Freedom in the classroom: Open Sankoré
Free and open source IWB software that I find really useful in my everyday teaching.
How to be a confident NNEST
Many things have already been written and said about the topic of NNEST equality in ELT. However, what can we do as NNESTs to improve our self-confidence and how students and employers see us? Last week I read this excellent post by Elly Setterfield, which got me thinking about how I see myself as a …
Challenges for 2017
Here we are, the holiday season is over so we are now facing seven months of almost uninterrupted work. This is quite exciting, but also scary as I am going to face a number of challenges that will make everything harder. I think I’ll need to have all my ducks in a row if I …
Two years blogging: Happy 2017!
I started this blog on 1st January 2015, so today marks the second ‘birthday’ of this blog. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to keep it updated regularly, but one of my 2017 resolutions is working on this. I’m immensely grateful to all the colleagues and strangers who passed by, left a comment or a ‘star’, …
Closed for the Holidays
Reflections on lesson planning
My considerations on lesson planning on a daily basis.