teaching - training & coaching in words

People are intelligent… there’s no doubt about that… even if most people will tell you they’re not and they have a problem with this or that topic… and can’t learn… That’s all wrong… false and fortunately so… but what people really lack most today is...

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Linking lessons is key to a successful English course and an essential part of lesson planning… Students need to find a logic in the progress of the course to progress themselves… helping their understanding and memory jog along the way… Students often...

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Before going into teaching #English #teachers should study how we learn… especially since English course books are designed to suit a syllabus which most teachers never bother to check before they use them… a syllabus only imposed by publishers… and not...

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Why I dropped English Books 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...

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Stop Look Listen The problem with a lot of teachers is they are convinced they are excellent teachers… they never stop and think… they blame their students for their poor results yet never ask their students what they think… there are also teacher who...

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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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You probably wouldn’t believe the number of teachers who suffer from Class Fright… or maybe you are one… Those teachers always make me think of a tamer walking into a lion’s den… they fear their students so much they become negative and aggressive for...

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Too many teachers today touch and go material supposedly suitable for teaching English and languages... most of it irrelevant in content, objectives and level... To learn well our brain needs to find a logic in the approach applied... for want of which...

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The #Sounds of #Language I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and doughOthers may stumble but not youOn hiccough, thorough, tough and throughWell done ! And now you wish perhapsTo learn of less familiar traps. Beware of heard, a dreadful...

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When we were kids playing in our garden one of my sisters used to throw the ball up real high and the ball would almost infallibly every time fall… on her head or on her… You may laugh and a few people will find this funny… but the funniest thing about...

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