Sunday, June 15, 2008

Teaching is a political act.

I have once come across this message and I think it has helped me every time I have felt discouraged. It is what Doctor Brown points out in Teaching by Principle (1994, P. 441)

Equally Shared Parenting...what´s all that about?

Saturday, June 7, 2008

How to make presentations

Pronunciation: a key question

Why and how to teach pronunciation?
That is a troublesome issue for many teachers who find that only repetition doesn´t help.
Try showing them examples of misunderstandings due to bad pronunciation.
Here is an example.




Provide them with the lyrics and work on /i/ and /i:/eg: give/live/leaving and on examples of assimilation as in withoutyou, letyou go and hadyou there.

Why do kids enjoy celebrating Halloween?


Teachers can take advantage of kids´eagerness to celebrate Halloween by organizing activities and games to revise vocabulary and grammar items.