I turned the page and hmphed at what I saw. Number vocabulary. Numbers listed in order, some blank lines, and a quick little listening exercise. My students could count, so why waste time on this? I moved on. Well, as it turned out, every other teacher at that school did the same thing. Even the […]
“What’s your goal?” I asked the class on the first day. “Learn English!” they chorused back, smiling like they’ve just solved world hunger. “Graduate university!” added someone from the back. Cool. Great. But here’s the thing – those weren’t goals. Those were wishes you make when you blow out birthday candles. I learned this the
Do your students ask for your advise in learning vocabulary? Its a common question, right? You might want to take a brake in your lessen to insure your students have a through knowledge of commonly confused words. But first, what causes this confusion? English is full of word pairs that look similar, sound similar, or
I’d been teaching Saudi students for almost a YEAR when I finally figured out that they’d been trying to tell me something crucial with a gesture. For a year, I completely missed my students’ pleas for more time to think. It looked like I was refusing to give them time to formulate their answers or
