Feelings are a special kind of vocabulary. We can’t point to them like objects (“Look, it’s a dog!”) or teach them like colors (“This one is blue”). Feelings are internal states that you experience inside your body. Think about how your body feels when you’re sad. Is there...
Although this is much less common than with vocabulary and grammar, gestures are a perfect way of eliciting, teaching and practising phrases like “Please help yourself” and “Here you are”. This is particularly useful for situations in which the gestures themselves will also be useful, s...
of course. Russian is hardest language to learn in my opinion, because of the different alphabet, way of thinking, arrangement of thoughts, and the ability of deep expression of thoughts and feelings in a wariety of ways. Russian language is very rich in terms of expanded vocabulary and huge...
was to create what I called “Short Asides.” When something I was writing about sparked an idea that deserved a bit of a detour, I’d go ahead and write about it, and the Short Aside format helped me keep track of the larger picture. ...
For the first meeting, we started off with introductions (name, pronouns, grade/school, and favorite ice cream flavor), then a discussion of the book with questions I prepared. I had also prepared some comics vocabulary on a whiteboard, but all these kids were already fluent readers of the...
complain pushy organize pressure When I was young, my parents asked me to do many things, but I don’t like doing them. My parents were ___. They ___ my life. I ___ a lot. Because I was under too much ___. pushyorganized complained pressure Read and match Para 1 a. ...
Here is a list of the times when you would use the imperfect for descriptions. Use the imperfect for: Describing physical characteristics (what things or people looked like) Describing mental or emotional characteristics (someone's personality, feelings, or state of mind) Telling time or ...
introduce a new theme or topic (Christmas/colours/feelings) break the ice in a class where students don't know each other or are having difficulty communicating change the mood (liven things up or calm things down) teach and build vocabulary and idioms ...
Present Continuous and vocabulary mimes Make a list of Present Continuous sentences with vocabulary related to the lesson (e.g. collocations with sports like “doing kung fu” and “playing volleyball” or travel compound nouns like “putting luggage into an overhead + locker”) for students to...
introduce a new theme or topic (Christmas/colours/feelings) break the ice in a class where students don't know each other or are having difficulty communicating change the mood (liven things up or calm things down) teach and build vocabulary and idioms ...