I would like to share with other teachers these group dynamics that have worked well throughout the thirty years I have had the pleasure of working with adult students in ESL Classrooms (1993 – 2023). I hope you find them useful and please share your experiences with us!
Meeting our students for the first time this year doesn’t need to be so unnatural as we think With the new preventive measures for schools, having to wear a face mask may add to the [...]
The virtual bookclub initiative that took place during lockdown last March 2020 stands up as a permanent option for advanced students this academic year. In these multidisciplinary workshops we [...]
To celebrate a very unrehearsed Christmas this year, full of improvised moments and impromptu decisions I am sharing this cross-cultural and cross-linguistic mediation task today. In small groups [...]
April 21st 2020 We are living the exceptional circumstances of a global pandemic. We have all been placed on lockdown and must follow our lessons online.The current topic «Every day routines and [...]
EXAM PRACTICE Mediation written task to practice Note-taking. Inspired by www.thewayexperience.es CONTEXT A student asks his/her private English tutor for help on a school assignment. [...]
Written Mediation task to practice Translation and Note-taking to commemorate Ms FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’s birthdate (activity created during the state of alarm 2020 which can be redesigned [...]
I wonder if this is happening to my colleague teachers. I keep thinking about a suitable way to close up this very atypical school year which started in the [...]
Only just a little note before we start to share this story with my readers: June 2012 marked the beginning of a new era for students at Official Schools of Languages in Andalucia as new [...]
For a speaking activity to work well a good «active» Listener is required. Take, for instance, group discussions, trialogues or dialogues. It is the case that sometimes the person you are talking [...]
