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Hello John, I'm too inexperienced to be enthusiastic about much more than teaching, really. I've just started my second year, children and adults in Spain. I'm doing my best to learn more all the time and read the posts in these forums with interest. If I have a more intelligent reply to you anytime...

Although you are working with adults, I thought perhaps the following reply from Sally Olsen about grammar with primary children could be useful... One idea is to have the parts of speech in different colours. You can make flash cards of words and have coloured chalk for writing on the board. They n...

early learning centre might be worth a look

Hi all, Hoping someone can help me. I have a group of smart, interested eight year olds, and one dyslexic eleven year old who knows lots more than the rest but really struggles to write. The class is working well so far but the children are very competitive and I obviously want this child to benefit...

Hi, BBC Radio Scotland online will give you a host of audio - you can do listening work with them. There are loads of Scottish accents. West/East and North/South are the main splits but that's rough. A major feature, at least in the west, is the glottal stop. There are also different vowels in Scotl...

Hi, I've just started my first ESL job. My only experience is teaching adults - Cert TESOL - and teaching Eng Lit to UK schoolkids. I have classes with two 8 year olds and rapport wise fine but they are translating everything I say and I don't know how to direct their learning. What should I be expe...