You may be a teacher, one of a second or foreign language. Well, that’s is a marvelous enterprise. Now I wanted to draw some lines about what a good lesson could be, according to my experience plus others’ one. Thus we can start the class with a warmer or warm-up activity. I ask my dear students about today’s date, and about the weather. Then, within that warmer, we practice saying sentences with such or such grammar structure, one we are practicing lately. Or they answer some questions by me. Or by them, to each other. Then we work on the homework set on the previous lesson. Every day I set some homework, at the end of the class. And usually they’ll have to review what done in class – me giving examples of what and how they may revise at home. And next we may work either on photocopies I hand out, or on the textbook we are working on. Much weight should be given in class to speaking in the target language. I plan each and every lesson, on a notebook for that purpose, even some
One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “English irregular verbs are an interesting grammar point Spanish students have to study year after year, increasing the list of them each academic year. Quite many more verbs of this type existed in Old English, before the 11th century, perhaps most of the English verbs then. In other words, the way each verb took the form of past simple and past participle was more complicate than the simple – ed ending. With centuries passing, fewer and fewer verbs remained as such ‘irregular’ verbs, in fact those verbs native speakers used very often. Because of that those verbs remained being ‘irregular’, while most of the English verbs, roughly speaking, were taking on the regular form of – ed for past simple and past participle. This can be due just to linguistic evolutions that actually occur in every language, with the language common people speak, year after year. Beside the fact that many words, so verbs too, were entering in the E
A small laugh or smiling by the teacher is good and sometimes necessary to break the ice, to have the students relaxed. I’m referring to adults, but with young students can be helpful too. Good humor defuses and takes the small drama out of the class conducting. It makes the students more prone to work and learn. Give it a try. / Photo from: Pretty-teacher-smiling elkgroveins com
Today is Saint Joseph. Have a nice day if your name is that one. He was the father of Jesus above all when this latter one was young. Better said, he was Jesus’ father always, also when he was and is in Heaven. Fathers can turn to Saint Joseph in order to educate their children. And not only fathers, but mothers, teachers, educators. He taught Jesus to work as a carpenter. He may teach our students to work nice and hard. For those of you that are not Christian, now you may learn that Jesus Christ is true God and true man. / Photo from: HolyFamily wau org
Class management: an important subject for the teacher to pass. However, if you shout quite often now, can you please tell me what you’re going to do when you really should shout because of grievous misbehavior? / Photo from: man-shouting www playbuzz com
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