teaching - training & coaching in words

A good teacher is a good learner… and a good teacher should always listen to his/her students… As I had been teaching English for some 20 years to people from all walks of life at all levels and it came to me one day that the feedback from the students...

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Preparing A Lesson is best done when the teacher has already tested the students’ levels and audited their needs before setting objectives and preparing English lessons to reach those objectives… Testing the students’ level will help you take the course...

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Students may tell you their level is this or that… although it is very difficult to assess one’s own level when one is not an English teaching professional… hence the need for a thorough audit of the level, needs and objectives… This audit will not only...

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Students may tell you their level is this or that… although it is very difficult to assess one’s own level when one is not an English teaching professional… hence the need for a thorough audit of the level, needs and objectives… This audit will not only...

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Starting an English Course is best done when the teacher has already tested the students’ levels and audited their needs before setting objectives and preparing English lessons to reach those objectives… Testing the students’ level will help you start...

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Singin’ To English #2 – Seven Songs To Sing About for #English teachers & students puts Singin’ To English into practice… The songs included here may be used on their own or to supplement a course or a lesson… to introduce a topic or as filler material...

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List Dropping and Dropping Lists Expand Messages Lists are like phrase books they’re a total waste of time… Most English students have at one time or another been given a list of irregulars verbs, prepositions, phrases and expressions, this or that or...

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When I was nine my little sister was really learning to speak and walk and I undertook to do my impossible to get her to speak and walk… or at least die trying… from the day she was born I had spent as much time as I could with her… caring for her almost...

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Nothing, in no other language, is more pedagogical than a lot of popular English lyrics… especially British pop lyrics… British English hosts a wealth of key phrases and expressions that repeatedly turn up in everyday and business conversations… If the...

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I never really understood that urge English teachers have to put their students through endless grammar exercises… and as a teacher myself felt I had to do it too… but, as I realised much later, only both under syllabus and peer pressure… All I remembered...

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