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  1. Introduction
  2. Visual Aids in the Classroom
  3. Magazine Photos in an English Lesson
  4. Magazines and Their Use
  5. How Do You Get a Student to Start Speaking?
  6. October 31st? It's time to celebrate Halloween!
  7. Some Suggestions for Class Participation
  8. Tips for Personalizing English
  9. How Can We Help the Students Build up Their Vocabulary?
  10. Teaching Polite Words
  11. Stimulating Comprehension Using Jokes
  12. Organizing the Teaching Week - First Lesson
  13. Organizing the Second Lesson of the Week
  14. The "Creative" Lesson of the Week
  15. If I wanted to teach IF clauses, I would do it this way!
  16. Adjectives Are Everywhere
  17. Writing Dialogues
  18. Happy Thanksgiving!
  19. What Do You Say?
  20. Stimulate Conversation
  21. A Language for Every Country
  22. Take the Time to Compliment
  23. Learning Adjectives That Describe a Person's Character
  24. English Is a Language Full of Exclamations!
  25. Everyone Has a Favourite Author
  26. Test Your Vocabulary!
  27. Christmas Is My Favourite Holiday
  28. New Year Resolutions
  29. Calendar - Let's Celebrate Holidays!
  30. Martin Luther King Day
  31. Getting More Information About Teaching "To Get"
  32. Describing a Photo
  33. Let's "Emphasize"!
  34. Another Look at Building Vocabulary
  35. Short Answers Say a Lot
  36. When To Use the ING-Form
  37. "Student" Conversation
  38. Comment, please!
  39. Happy Saint Valentine's Day
  40. Let's Talk About Families!
  41. Presidents' Day in the USA
  42. What's Your Name?
  43. Oh, You Poor Thing!
  44. Compimenting Is an Art!
  45. What Would You Say... ?
  46. Women's Day
  47. A Proverb for Every Occasion
  48. Happy Saint Patrick's Day
  49. Hunt Up Slogans!
  50. HELP, I Don't Understand!
  51. Advanced Students and University Exams
  52. Teaching Young Children
  53. Advanced Students... Keep Talking!
  54. Let's Talk About Abbreviations
  55. Happy Easter!
  56. I Wonder...
  57. Body Language
  58. Computer symbol @, the well-known e-mail symbol
  59. "To Be or Not To Be..."
  60. Dear...
  61. Hi, how's everything?
  62.  “Feelings are everywhere…..”
  63. Happy Mother’s Day!
  64. Why not study OPPOSITES?
  65. Using Prefixes and Suffixes Increases Vocabulary
  66. A Word about TRIVIA!!
  67. Excuses, excuses, etc...
  68. Try writing "long" sentences!
  69. Who, What, Where, When, Why??
  70. "Teach" it nice and easy!
  71. Let's go to the cinema!
  72. "Sign" watching!
  73. CROSSWORDS help build vocabulary
  74. Happy Father's Day
  75. More Jokes to lighten your lesson!
  76. Some "guided" conversations!
  77. Teach some Synonyms and Homonyms
  78. Still More adjectives!!!
  79. Learning new vocabulary words…..the easy way!!!
  80. Make them Think!!!
  81. Add some Expressions...to your English
  82. "Free time" is quality time!
  83. Well wishing!!!
  84. Discover New York City!
  85. Keep a Diary!!!
  86. The Five W's
  87. Collecting "Words of Wisdom"
  88. Talking about Professions
  89. Reading a Newspaper Headlines
  90. Writing "Want Ads"
  91. Evaluate, how we evaluate!
  92. The Twin Towers: buildings that no longer exist
  93. There's no place like home!
  94. Collect, collect, collect...
  95. What's an Ellipsis?
  96. Do you mind...?
  97. Going Shopping!!!
  98. How long...?
  99. A Class Magazine? Why not?
  100. California Dreaming
  101. Talk, talk, talk...
  102. A "bunch" of useful expressions!
  103. Borrow or Lend?
  104. Blue jeans, an American story
  105. Getting to know you...
  106. Use the dictionary!!!
  107. Label it!!!
  108. Write what you "feel"...
  109. Geography? Yes, in English!
  110. Visiting the Island of Ponza
  111. Who am I?
  112. Creating time lines!
  113. Gone with the Wind
  114. Where's the party?
  115. "You are what you eat!"
  116. The one, the only...Charlie Brown
  117. How's the weather?
  118. T-Shirt are for Everyone!!!
  119. The Story of the White House
  120. Laugh your way to good health!
  121. Meet me in the kitchen!
  122. Talking about the future...your future!
  123. STOP...Do not enter!!!
  124. Why don't we...?
  125. To teach or not to teach...by the book!
  126. Correct, please!!!
  127. A world famous skyscraper!
  128. Be Polite!
  129. Having a Discussion
  130. Let them sing!!!
  131. Take that photo!
  132. "Know that Verb" Quiz
  133. Confusing words
  134. The woman of crime!
  135. Aloha, Hawaii!
  136. What's a nickname?
  137. Time to Eat !!!
  138. Homework yes, but only Intelligent homework!
  139. License plates...personalized!!!
  140. Numbers, learning about them!
  141. Happy birthday origins
  142. Chocolate, the true story
  143. Try writing poetry!
  144. It takes...
  145. Raise the flags!!!
  146. I had a million dollars...
  147. Cars...
  148. Words and meanings
  149. Who invented what?
  150. English courses abroad???
  151. Whoever teaches English has a great responsability!
  152. Look who's planning the lessons!!!
  153. Difference between British and American English
  154. Teaching Literature in English...beware of methods!!!

 



 


 


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Very often a teacher finds it difficult to evaluate her students' capabilities.
Too often it is left to the textbook which offers "tests" for the teachers to use.

Unfortunately most of these tests do not evaluate correctly. They give  texts to "fill in the blanks" without noting that the vocabulary is often above the students' level of  comprehension. If the students can't understand the text, they certainly aren't capable of choosing the correct word. They may understand the points of grammar to be evaluated, but they are not able to SHOW the teacher that they understand them due to the way the test is written.

Another factor is that the test is generally timed. This limited time period is often not sufficient for the work that has to be done on  the test. So I ask, are we really interested in discovering what the student knows, or do we leave it all up to the textbook  authors to determine what and how the evaluation is made.

A very simple way of evaluating the students' knowledge of  certain grammar points, is to let them show you if they are capable of using it in a sentence.
Ex. You gave them  a lesson on possessives.

Ask them to write 6 sentences using these possessives adjectives and another 6 sentences using the possessive pronouns.
Give them a chance to change from the possessive adjective to the possessive pronoun in a group of sentences
This is my brother's pen.        Ex. This pen is his.
These are her books.
Those are their cars.

You'll probably are saying, "Wow, that's too easy."
And I'll answer, THAT is the English grammar,  Simple rules to learn, The important part is that they understand these rules and are able to use them.
Is it necessary to complicate something that is relatively simple? 
I prefer hearing my students comment after a grammar lesson:  "Now I understand." 

Textbooks have a way of explaining a grammar rule that generally confuses more than explains. There is usually  no more than one or maximum 2 sentences given as examples and then the students are expected to confront pages and pages of written exercises.  I also find that too many different grammar rules are introduced in one lesson and too often the grammar is given in pieces, that is, a bit in one lesson and then a few lessons later another bit and continuing in this way, the students never get to see the entire explanation in one place. I judge that to be very confusing.

The wise teacher will prepare additional photocopies to Simplify so that she is sure the students can understand the point and are capable of USING it themselves in sentences. This time reserved to having the students Try Out the grammar is invaluable and definitely a good means for them to try using it in conversation.

In previous posts on my blog I described how the students can practice using the language. (using an ID to ask questions about a person, using magazine photos to write up short dialogues, using various topics to talk about, etc.)

What is teaching English?  It's an opportunity to stimulate your class so that they willingly will try to use the language in conversation.

      

A Nice Thought

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