In our last post we saw that you can bake chicken and potatoes, aside from all the sweet stuff like cookies, cakes etc. Today we are going to see what we can ROAST. Curiously, both chicken and potatoes show up in the top 20 occurrences of ROAST followed by a noun, first word to the …
About two years ago I started learning Russian from scratch. If you want to know what it is like to be in your students´ shoes when learning a language, I highly recommend going through the process of picking up a completely new language. It can be an enlightening experience. One thing which I find challenging …
Teaching English to children at a public school in Vitória/ES If you have read my June post, you may recall that it was about how I designed the syllabus and created the modules I work on with my 6-to-10-year-old students at a public school in Vitória/ES. This month, you are going to have the chance …
Ricardo Madureira – Absolute beginners, unlike the so-called false beginners, are learners who have no previous knowledge whatsoever of the target language they are about to start studying. Teachers will often wrongly assume that some language structures are easier than others and consequently they will rush through some grammar points in the hope that students …
Louise Potter – The truth of this simple sentence always strikes me when I think about our profession: ” We are not teachers, we become teachers”. Teaching is like a never ending story. We never get to the bottom of it. There is always something new around the corner, waiting to turn our lives …
Ricardo Madureira – Many teachers of English have not undergone adequate preparation to face the real classroom. They take part in one-week crash training courses and are expected to go to the real world and ‘apply’ what they have been instructed to do, as if the application of theoretical principles were straightforward in real classroom …