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LIFE TIPS: Smart People Deal with People They Don’t Like
WORLD is not perfect, whenever we try to make to be, IT WON’T BE PERFECT! Living in this hectic crazy world, sometimes it makes us meet people making this life getting crazier and crazier. According to Robert Sutton (a professor of management science at Stanford University), it’s neither possible — nor even ideal — to…
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Post-it Notes: WAYS TO MAKE TEACHING LIFE EASIER (PART II)
TEXT BOOK NOTES Do you find your students making notes in books you will use with future students? Give each students a pack of post-its to use for notes in the book. Simply peel them off before giving the book to your next students. CLASSROOM CALENDAR Need a calendar large enough for all your students to…
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Post-it Notes: WAYS TO MAKE TEACHING LIFE EASIER (PART I)
CREATE A SEATING CHART Create a flexible seating chart using post-its. You can easily move your students around in class and on paper to change your classroom dynamics. Include essential info about each students on the notes. DAILY OBSERVATIONS Make the personal comment section of report cards easy by jotting down any observations about students’…
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TEACHING READING SKILLS: Skimming AND Scanning
Skimming and scanning are two techniques that many people use. To understanding more the differences between two, just check the explanation below: SKIMMING SCANNING Skimming is reading a text quickly to find out the general theme, topic or meaning Scanning is reading a text quickly in order to find specific information. For instance: figures…
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My Instagram, My Friendship with WORLD
Hmm, it might be the right answer when some don’t get why I’m active on social media, especially this Instagram 😂😂😂😂 ” – This is how I see the world isn’t as small as where I’m living now, – This is how I see and understand that there are many things – out there…
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WAYS TO INTRODUCE NEW VOCABULARY (PART II)
INTRODUCE COUPLE Try teaching pairs of words at one time. Antonyms are the perfect materials for this type of vocabulary instruction. You can also pair synonyms, homonyms or any other sets of words that have some connections. GET PHYSICAL Use Total Physical Response, the EFL/ESL technique linking a physical movement to English words. Illustrate new…
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WAYS TO INTRODUCE NEW VOCABULARY (PART I)
PICTURE IT Use picture of new vocabulary words to introduce them to your students. You may choose to use flash cards, magazine imagines, online pictures, picture dictionaries or photographs when helping your students picture new words. KEEP IT REAL Using real objects to introduce new vocabulary will aid your students in remembering the new words.…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART V
Catch flies: To sit with one’s mouth hanging open. Chav: An ignorant, trashy, lower-class person. Cheeky: Playfully impertinent. “Did you just whistle at that old lady? You cheeky monkey.” “Get stuffed!”: An angry rebuke, similar to “Go f*ck yourself!” Knackered: Exhausted. Aggro: Aggressive/in someone’s face. “Are you having a laugh?”: Statement of incredulity, like “you’ve got…
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Simple British Slang Phrases YOU SHOULD START USING ^_^ – PART VI
Slag: A contemptible person; possibly a promiscuous one. “Sod it.”: “I give up.” Used in a sentence: “I’ll never understand this math problem. Sod it, let’s go down to the pub.” Sprog: A child/offspring. Starkers: Naked. Balls-up: “Gone wrong”, as in a situation that hasn’t gone according to plan. Barmy: Crazy, insane. Bimble: An ambling walk.…
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Activities for Teaching the Future Perfect Progressive (PART II)
BY THE TIME Students work in pairs. Students starts by identifying a future time with the phrase “By the time…” + a sentence in the simple present. Student 2 completes the sentence with a main clause using the future prefect progressive. A complete sentence could be, “By the time I finish “War and Peace”, I…