I had only the one lesson today, and while it was OK, I didn't really enjoy it. It hung off its foundations like a 20-year-old's clothes off a 70-year-old's body. It was my upper intermediate class, and we were looking at the perennial fun favourites of relative clauses and present and past participles. Whoo. I didn't do any pyrotechnics this time round - I just didn't feel up to any, for some reason.
The evening saw me handing out information and smiles to potential students, most of whom wanted either ESOL or something more intangible - something to remove their ennui, perhaps.
Studies, theories, ideas, notes from the workface and occasional bits of stupidity.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Labels
Motivation
(12)
ESOL
(11)
Methodology
(8)
Acquisition
(7)
Learning
(7)
Portfolios
(5)
Dip TESOL
(4)
blended learning
(4)
dogme
(4)
EFL
(3)
FE
(3)
language citizens
(3)
language commuters
(3)
language denizens
(3)
language tourists
(3)
learner attitudes
(3)
linguistic hierarchy
(3)
marking
(3)
technology
(3)
#eltchat
(2)
English
(2)
Hierarchy of needs
(2)
L1
(2)
Maslow
(2)
Natural Approach
(2)
SATs
(2)
SLA
(2)
Silent Way
(2)
Speaker and listener roles
(2)
The Language City
(2)
Turkish
(2)
VLEs
(2)
attitudes
(2)
differentiation
(2)
elt
(2)
handling and manipulating
(2)
iPad
(2)
language and depression
(2)
language at intermediate level
(2)
language city model
(2)
lesson
(2)
lesson planning
(2)
moodle
(2)
phonology and phonetics
(2)
smart phones
(2)
speaking
(2)
teaching
(2)
ALTE
(1)
Arabic
(1)
CEFR
(1)
CLL
(1)
Cadbury's Creme Eggs
(1)
Classroom activity
(1)
Communication
(1)
DTLLS
(1)
ELT Unplugged
(1)
ETS
(1)
French As An Evil Language
(1)
GLAW profilies
(1)
Higher level students
(1)
L1 context
(1)
Language Interaction
(1)
Observations
(1)
P4C
(1)
Steve Krashen
(1)
Syllabus
(1)
TPR
(1)
actuive vocabulary
(1)
advice
(1)
affective filter
(1)
ambiguous language
(1)
approaches
(1)
apps
(1)
articulator
(1)
aspect
(1)
blockbuster
(1)
boardwork
(1)
bullying
(1)
childhood acquisition
(1)
citizen
(1)
citizenship
(1)
city guide
(1)
classroom techniques
(1)
cognitive tasks
(1)
conjunctions
(1)
copyright
(1)
creating content
(1)
curating content
(1)
diagram
(1)
digital literacy
(1)
dimension
(1)
disruption
(1)
distance learning
(1)
e-learning
(1)
easter
(1)
encoding
(1)
english uk
(1)
examiner
(1)
experiments
(1)
failure
(1)
fossilization
(1)
future forms
(1)
grade scales
(1)
grading
(1)
grammar
(1)
group work
(1)
handedness
(1)
holistic learning
(1)
integration
(1)
interlanguage
(1)
l2
(1)
lesson ideas
(1)
lexis
(1)
listening
(1)
literacy
(1)
manager
(1)
meaningful interaction
(1)
mindfulness
(1)
mondays
(1)
neologism
(1)
online content
(1)
page o rama
(1)
passive grammar
(1)
passive vocabulary
(1)
podcast
(1)
politics
(1)
power law distributions
(1)
presentation
(1)
problem solving
(1)
provider
(1)
register
(1)
research
(1)
resolutions
(1)
routine
(1)
sentence structure
(1)
silent running
(1)
skills and systems
(1)
stereotypes
(1)
style
(1)
suggestopedia
(1)
teacher talk time
(1)
tense
(1)
tenses
(1)
total bloody genius
(1)
tutorial aids
(1)
tutors
(1)
twitter
(1)
using IT
(1)
validity
(1)
varieties of English
(1)
web profiles
(1)
world englishes
(1)
writing
(1)
No comments:
Post a Comment