Simple quick game from Mido today. 1. Put the kids into 2 groups. 1. Give each group a set (or sets for larger groups) of minicards from today’s lesson, they divide them up between themselves with at least one card each. 2. Everyone in the class shouts out today’s question. The teacher says “sorry?” so they…
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Hello, I’m still not happy with the pictures for the “Whose is it?” song. So my question of the day is… How would *you* illustrate … mine / yours / his / hers / ours / theirs/ everybody’s / I don’t know & “Whose is it?” The criteria are …. It is has to be easily recognizable…
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I just got back from a fantastic weekend teaching a group of amazing teachers in Xi’an China – home of the 兵马俑 – The Terracotta Army! After the recent 200 people workshops it was great to have a group where I could answer more questions and everyone could get a chance to teach! Doing the crazy “Do…
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OK, so we’ve got the definition of fluent under our belts and we’re chockablock full of real reasons why getting fluent is worth the effort. So today I’m going to show you how to get started. But it has to be today. You can’t wait till next week. There are 7 days in the week…
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Erika wrote in to ask: How do you evaluate your students? Do you use self-evaluation? Hi Erika, Thank you for the question and the great case study! We do several types of evaluation. For the full on research programmes we interview every student at the beginning of the course, again half way through and then…
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A very simple game from Mido this week, and it works great in making the kids laugh and getting them on their toes! 1. The teacher says one of the todays words/phrases as a command e.g. I’m a …., I can throw or I like giraffes and at the same time does the gesture for a…
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