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Hi Fluffy, thanks for your thoughts on this. Reading your comments makes me see that my examples were not very good ones. I like your example of saying something and then saying "Me too!" much more. It's more common, more natural, and more useful for the students. I'd never heard of "ostensive" befo...

Hi colleagues, I'm a relatively new (3 years) and untrained teacher of Adult Beginners. I am pretty comfortable teaching vocabulary where I can use pictures or realia to make clear what the word is, but need some ideas how to teach or explain words that can't be taught visually! The words that came ...

I don't know anything about Kuwaiti immigration laws, but here in the US if someone only had a work permit, it would be impossible to do what your friends did, leave the country without permission and expect to get back in legally. I would guess that their work permits will be invalid now? But it de...

Dear harmony, lorikeet and sally, Thank you so very much! You three have the best suggestions! I've looked up your other posts and am very impressed with all your experience and suggestions. I'm thrilled to see that I seem to be somewhat on the right track, judging by the fact that what I've done so...

Hi, My first post, so I'm sorry if this has been covered at length already! I am teaching (my FIRST class ever) a group of adults at the low beginner level. Some of them can't understand anything, others know quite a bit of English already. I'm following a textbook (Foundations-Molinsky/ Bliss) but ...