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🎄🌴🌳 Do you know all the names of the parts of a tree?

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry

This can be said about every learning course we develop as teachers and methodologists.

Reading of the text doesn't mean its comprehension. Some useful tips to help children develop their comprehension skills. Hint: we move from oral literacy to reading...

5 Ways to Support Students Who Struggle With Reading Comprehension These strategies can help students who are able to decode well but have difficulty understanding what they read—and they’re beneficial for all students.

Активно осваиваю Quizlet для учителей. Наваяла инструкцию для нубов как добавиться, читай присоединиться к курсу.
https://www.notion.so/Quizlet-a3be75f67bf2429b9f02c08c87fc2590

Explore FOOD! Very detailed video for all types of meat! [10 min]

Spoken English Lesson - Different types of meat (Learning English Vocabulary) Spoken English Lesson - Different types of meat (Learning English Vocabulary) Blog: http://www.learnex.in/different-types-of-meat-vocabulary Facebook: http:/...

Отличная брошюраhttps://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/pub_Starter%20Teachers%20A%20methodology%20course%20for%20the%20classroom.pdf для Starting Teachers и Teacher Trainers. Базовые вещи доступным языком. Понравились активити на vocabulary recycle. Привожу тройку самых интересных.

# Collocation pairs
1. Ask participants to form pairs of A and B.
2. Explain that A will write down the first, third, fifth words etc. while B will write down the second, fourth, sixth words etc.
3. Check the instructions have been understood.
4. Dictate the following words: absolutely recognition deserve information high influence highly amazing inside rise reliable unlikely sharp evidence strongly inadequate woefully expectations
5. Ask pairs to make collocates: high expectations, highly unlikely, absolutely amazing, deserve recognition, inside information, strongly influence, sharp rise, reliable evidence, woefully inadequate.

# Rub them out
1. Write up a list of words on the board from recent lessons.
2. Divide the class into two teams.
3. Ask a person from one team to come to the front and explain a word, then rub it out.
4. Next, ask someone from the other team to do the same.
5. Continue until all the words have gone.
Note: Coursebooks usually don’t recycle new vocabulary enough (a minimum of 20 times is needed!). You need to introduce activities that compensate for this i.e. those above and activities such as Vocabulary Relay (students grouping words in sets on board), Hot seat, Word box etc.

# Things that are ...
1. Choose a colour e.g. red, blue, yellow.
2. Ask the students to work individually and make a list of ten things that are of the colour you have chosen. Set a short time limit to keep up the pace of the activity.
3. Put students in pairs, but tell them NOT to show their list to their partner.
4. Explain that the aim of the activity is to see who in each pair can guess the most things from their partner’s list in five minutes. To do this they will ask yes/no questions.
Be sure to check students understand what kind of questions they can ask. For example:
A: Can you eat it? B: Yes. A: Is it a fruit? B: Yes. A: Does it grow on trees? B: No. etc.
5. Give learner A in each pair five minutes to guess. After the time limit, swap roles with learner B guessing. At the end, find out the who guessed correctly most often.
Note: Adrian Tennant, course director, first came across this idea in Alternatives by Richard and Marjorie Baudains (see bibliography).

И на пунтуацию. Просто и не скучно.

# Board punctuation
1. Write up a short text (can be from a coursebook) on the board but leave out punctuation, capital letters etc.
2. Students take turns coming up to the board and correcting the text.

TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. — Louise Erdrich

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Happy Sunday! 😉

The regret & the 3rd conditional [the dude in the video is hot and his British accent is exemplary]

Expressing regret in English | Learn English with Cambridge Join our presenter Greg where he demonstrates how to express regret in English in varying expression types such as: 'to regret' and 'should have'. Greg also ...

Секрет в успешном изучении чего-либо (иностранного языка или сальсы) в преодолении фрустрации на начальном этапе, этого ужасного чувства, когда ничего не получается и ничего не понимаешь. Чем дольше ты практикуешься, тем лучше твой результат. В статье пара советов как преодолеть трудности первого этапа [🇦🇺, 5 мин]

The Hardest Part About Learning Hard Things - Scott Young - Pocket It may never get any easier, but it’s always worth it.