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I think some simple and significant gifts are meaningful, and i don't think it is necessary to always give them gifts. Maybe after a period of hard work, everyone should be given a small gifts for their hardworking.

Some teachers said that if you teach elementary students. you shoud prepare some small gifts for them to encourage them. Do you agree with this opinion? Personally I don't agree, because in this way students will focus on the gifts and in order to get the gift they will compete or even fight with th...

Have you noticed that ESL students always misuse modal verbs?
For example, I find that most students always use "should" instead of "might" when they make suggestions or show a kind of possibility.
If you have found the same problem, how do you do in your teaching?

1 Always tell students that English is not difficult. They just need to use English in their daily lives as much as possible.
2 Give students some small gifts as a kind of encouragement.
3 Make sure that students could get enough input everyday.

I think you can ask students to do self-assessments or peer-assessments. You can calss the students into several groups and every one have to assess all the members of the group. In this way they can get a sincere assessment from their classmates.