Para professores de idiomas trabalharem com alunos de todas as idades.
D) Dias da semana (praticando os dias da semana)
Material: 35 cartões com os dias da semana por escrito.
Sugestão: você pode digitar em seu computador os dias da semana e imprimir 5 páginas com as…
Amidst current global political changes taking place, I would like to share with you a story and activity that can be used with learners of English. My hope is that it will help people to have a clearer picture of multicultural Britain. The short story is about an…
SLANG
HIS AND HERS
THE GENTS (UK)
BANHEIRO PÚBLICO MASCULINO
I need to go to the gents.
Eu preciso ir ao banheiro.
Gent é uma forma abreviada de gentleman. O banheiro público para mulheres chama-se the ladies ou the ladies’ room. Exemplo:
Is there a ladies…
Before talking about the importance of reflective teaching, it is crucial to define what it is. Reflective teaching is all about looking at what you do in the classroom, gathering information, analyzing and reflecting on the things that are being done, and why they are being…
Brain to mouth: Are you receiving me?
How to improve fluency through individual and group practice
One of the main objectives of most language students is to be able to converse with confidence and fluency in a variety of situations, in short, to speak the language…
The challenges of teaching and learning idiomatic expressions (idioms) - Ricardo Madureira
24/06/2016
Idiomatic expressions pose an exciting challenge to students because their individual words take on a new meaning when the expression is considered as a whole and what is more, some expressions are completely opaque (that is, obscure in meaning), even when the students know…
Teaching English to 6-to-10-year-old children at a public school in Vitória/ES - Paulo Torres
By Paulo Torres
23/06/2016
It all started in February 2013. After passing a public contest in 2012, I had to choose the school I was going to work at. Among the possibilities was a school which had never offered English as a modern language before. I ended up choosing this school because I would have…
Summer holidays are often cherished moments for teachers and learners, especially in regular schools. In language institutes, the scenario is usually different, as many students enroll for intensive courses. In any case, it is not the ordinary school term and it may be a…
How often do you actually stop what you are doing in order to analyze your objectives as a teacher? Have you recently asked yourself why you are teaching? What and how you are teaching? In addition, most importantly, who you are teaching? Teacher development starts…