Фортепиано и раннее музыкальное развитие

08/10/2015

My latest article for EFL Magazine

Using First Language In One-To-One Classes by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

21/07/2015

My new post in EFL Magazine.

One-to-One: Creating Comfort by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

28/06/2015

I'm currently teaching a teenage 1-2-1 student and in this post I'm sharing some techniques that I've found to work well.

Recently I've been working very intensively with the most difficult kind of student you can imagine - an undisciplined and unmotivated teenage boy. I'd like to share some ideas that let me survive ...

09/06/2015

My new post on learner autonomy in the EFL Magazine.

One-to-one: Promoting Learner Autonomy by EFL Magazine. Check out our great, free resources for English language teaching. See more details about it on EFL Magazine.

06/06/2015

I was asked a question in an ELT workshop: "Where should a beginner teacher start his or her reading?"

My answers off the top of my head were:
- Jim Scrivener "Learning Teaching"
- Scott Thornbury "A-Z of ELT"
- Luke Meddings, Scott Thornbury "Teaching Unplugged" (this one is very subjective, I know).

How would you answer this question?

05/06/2015

This passage from from Scott Thornbury's blog is one of my favourite ELT quotes:

"Lucrezia’s teaching method was clever. She invited me to gossip away in Italian as best I could, discussing what I would ordinarily discuss in English; when stumped for the next expression, I’d pause. She’d then provide the missing word. I’d write it down in a notebook I kept week after week. … Day after day I trekked to Lucrezia’s and she tore out the seams of my shoddy, ill-fitting Italian and found ways to tailor it to my needs and interests.”

https://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/

Scott Thornbury's blog