Success! A lesson plan on how to get there + reported speech. CEFR B1-B2
A lesson about success with Richard St. John’s TED talk 8 secrets of success, and JK Rowling’s commencement speech on the benefits of failure at Harvard.
A fun class for Young Learners about the power of friendship, time, and connections
Today was a great day! My blog has been visited by more than 1000 people from 85 different countries. I have plenty of reasons to celebrate just because of that. However, I’m even happier because of a wonderful lesson I had with my group of YLs. To inspire you, my dear teachers, I’d like to share what …
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A little controversy doesn’t hurt – A video lesson plan about PARSNIPS (hot topics)
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj2lzLZ6YxM&t=310s Whenever you have to talk about sex, religion, politics or drugs, how do you feel? Are you comfortable discussing these hot topics or can you feel the cold sweat coming down already? If I had to guess, I’d say basically everyone has reservations when it comes to controversial issues. I certainly …
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The Perfect Lesson Plan (but not really) – A sample to help you plan your own lessons
Versão em português – LESSON PLAN SAMPLE 1_português Is there such a thing as the perfect lesson plan? I challenge you to think about that. Have you ever delivered a lesson that felt like you rocked big time? The way I see it, there are no perfect lesson plans. Some might feel perfect to you or …
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Extra Activities for Oxford’s American English File 2nd Edition
Hello, dear English teachers! I’d like to share the entire planning I did for an immersion course in January this year. The course was given to 4 groups at the language center of UniEvangélica. I designed the activity plans to substitute or complement at least one activity in every lesson, and also integrated some project-based …
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Neuroscience of Learning/Second Language Acquisition – Part 2 – Neurociência da Aprendizagem/Aquisição de Segunda Língua – Parte 2
Neurociência da Aprendizagem_parte2 – texto em português Ok, let’s go on with the learning tips from our new favorite subject: Neuroscience! It’s worth stressing that the claims contained in this post have been tested all over the world and, thus, are science-based, which means they shouldn’t be neglected. I do not wish to say that …
Are there times we shouldn’t speak a foreign language in public? An inspirational lesson plan for your students
Given the recent discussion I had with my peers on Facebook about Dilma’s attempt to speak French on TV (check out the BrELT group on Facebook if you work with ELT), I’ve decided to share this lesson plan with you guys. I’m sharing a dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qhlk8337kiclh2n/AACDvYT0pwKTsLo7tdL26FMRa?dl=0 There are two ppt lessons and a video …
Neuroscience of Learning/Language Acquisition – Neurociência da Aprendizagem/Aquisição de Segunda Língua
Neurociência da Aprendizagem – texto em português Last year I traveled all the way to Israel to meet Neuroscience expert Dr. Avi Karni at the University of Haifa. The reason? Quite simple: 1) my wife was going to present at a conference there; and 2) I had heard about Dr. Karni’s research on a TED talk …
