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Lorikeet:

Thanks for trying......your last example almost explains it but still doesn't quite get us out of the dilemma. e.g. I need a satisfactory explanation to justify why the reply can't be, "what did she wear?".

Magpou

I've spent the last few days teaching my class of adult students the Simple Past and Past Progressive tenses and it seemed that they had grasped the concept until we stumbled upon the following example. I found it difficult trying to provide a clear explanation as to why the Past Progressive is used...

Hello Iain: It's nice of you to continue with your input. My tutoring mission has been contracted to me by a private language school whose experience is mainly focused on teaching foreign students from abroad - adolescents and young adults at an intermediate level. Therefore their teaching materials...

Hello, Lorikeet: Thanks a million for your ideas. You've deifinitely helped to bolster my confidence! Will keep in touch with you as the classes progress. Hello again, I'm glad you are getting ideas. I looked back at some of the materials my friend and I had written for the several courses we prepar...

Lorikeet: Thanks a million; your suggestion has most certainly helped me to "nail it". That's the direction I was wanting to head, to introduce activities that would be relevant to their work situation and for the exercises to be useful. You are absolutely correct when you say their expectations hav...

Hi, Iain: I would take the same queue, i.e. exercises from a textbook, if my students were younger. However, being adults and business people to boot, my thinking is that I may have to be more creative with the lesson. Thanks, all the same. I was looking for some suggestions re ideas for lesson mate...

The points you have raised are all pertinent and it was my intention to spend some time in the first lesson to establish the students' needs and then plan the course from that. I am sure that many of the needs that you have addressed with your group will be similar in mine. I was looking for some su...

I have just been assigned a tutoring job to a small group of businessmen who work for a cement plant. The only information I have been given so far is that these individuals want lots of practice with Listening and Speaking. Would welcome ideas for what topics would be suitable for classroom discuss...