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This Teacher Used This One Awesome Trick When Teaching and You Won’t Believe What happened Next (or how I learned to get learners talking in fewer than ten photocopies) – The Portable TEFList
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Fits in your pocket. This Teacher Used This One Awesome Trick When Teaching and You Won’t Believe What happened Next (or how I learned to get learners talking in fewer than ten photocopies). July 27, 2016. July 27, 2016. There will be time, there will be time. To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet. What do The Japanese Civil War, Batman vs Superman and Tidying Guru Maria Kondo. All the World’s a Stage. In 1957, Erving Goffman published his book. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life.
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Teaching Kids 101 | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. July 18, 2016. November 18, 2016. Teaching kids can be one of the biggest challenges new (and even not that new) EFL teachers face. You’ve done your CELTA, you’ve taught a few adult classes, everything has gone well; and then, suddenly, you find yourself in front of a class of 8 year olds. These are my top ten tips for anyone new to teaching kids. 1 Choose shorter activities. 2 Let them move. 4 Get them creating. It’...
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5 Games for Advanced Students | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. 5 Games for Advanced Students. October 5, 2016. October 5, 2016. We’re all familiar with the games teachers habitually play in the EFL classroom: hangman, 20 questions and so-on. When your students have a high level of English, though, it gets a bit tricky – those games may be fun, but they present little to no linguistic challenge for your students and as such don’t have much value. So, what can they play? Answer correct...
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Teaching Beginners 101 | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. November 11, 2016. Several months in, I thought I’d pretty much got the hang of this teaching gig. Eliciting, concept checking, explaining grammar rules – sorted. Until I was given a class of beginner students. How on earth was I meant to get them to understand anything when the first bit of target language was ‘Hello’? 1Teach what you expect them to produce. Don’t be surprised if ‘How are you? Showing students a dictiona...
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EFL Advent Calendar – 24th December | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. EFL Advent Calendar – 24th December. December 24, 2016. December 23, 2016. Christmas Adverts – 24th December. Yesterday I talked about Christmas music, and it made me remember another thing Chrismas wouldn’t be Christmas about: Christmas adverts on TV! Here’s a round-up of Christmas advert activities:. Lesson plans based on John Lewis adverts. This time for B1-C1 students) based on John Lewis’ the Snowmen advert. Some of ...
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Merry Christmas! | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. December 25, 2016. December 24, 2016. Today’s post is a final round-up of festive activities – I’ve tried to choose fun ones that don’t take too much prep time. If you’re teaching today it’ll be a unique experience, but try to make the most of it. Larry Ferlazzo has a great list of Christmas videos. Bingo, Pictionary, Hangman, 20 Questions/Back to the Board (use Christmas vocab throughout! Childrens’ party games:. You are...
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Native Speakers Aren’t Better – So Don’t Believe It. | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. Native Speakers Aren’t Better – So Don’t Believe It. January 5, 2017. January 9, 2017. Students want native-speaker teachers, don’t they? If you’re interested in some more in-depth reading (and what to see for yourself exactly what students thing, Ahmar Mahoob’s paper. In my experience, students’ first priority is to learn. As long as you’re a good teacher, who cares what your native language is? Think of a renowned scien...
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I don’t know: What if my students ask me a question and I don’t know the answer? | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. I don’t know: What if my students ask me a question and I don’t know the answer? October 3, 2016. October 3, 2016. I’ll let you into a secret: this happens to us all. It happened to me last week. The longer you teach, the less frequent it hopefully becomes, but no one (no matter how experienced) is completely safe from the dreaded unexpected question. Be able to come up with an answer. Although it sounds flippant saying i...
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Planning on a Daily Basis | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. Planning on a Daily Basis. November 22, 2016. During your CELTA or Trinity, planning takes. Are you staring at your computer screen now with an expression of abject horror wondering when you’re ever going to have time for all your planning? Or are you fed up with spending all weekend, every weekend, in the staffroom or at home, but poring over coursebooks? Have you got your coffee/tea/wine/beverage of choice? Again, anoth...
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2 Ways to Make it a Game. | The Best Ticher
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EFL advice, tricks and tips for newbie teachers…. Advice and Tips for New Teachers. 2 Ways to Make it a Game. June 23, 2016. We’ve all had classes at some point where there is time to fill, or some sort of pacing schedule which limits the amount of ‘book material’ we can cover in any given lesson. For me, teaching became a lot easier when I figured out a few more ways to fill time! To make feedback for an activity/homework fun. To motivate students to do grammar/vocabulary exercises. Ask the students to ...
