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Thanks so much. That's a great help

Thanks Sally,

But I'm really just looking for advice or tops for marking her writing work. I have the IELTS band descriptions but is there anywhere I can more specific marking guidelines on how to mark and advise her on the writing section?

Thanks

Hi, I'm starting to give one-on-one IELTS lessons today for the first time. First I want to give my student a practice test to see what level she is at. However I'm unsure of how to make the writing and speaking bits. I've downloaded copies of the band descriptors but is there anything else that cou...

Hi everyone, I have a student who I give private lessons to. We just started this week and she mainly wants to work on her conversation skills. She has said to me that for the next lesson she wants to practice conditionals. She says she knows the structures when writing but that it gets all mixed up...

Thanks a million. I think this will really help.

Hi everyone I've started to teach a private lesson weekly and it's going quite well. Today we did prepositions of time and place (in, at, on) and next week they want me to have conversation/speaking activities to practise this grammar point. Does anyone have any ideas? There are two of them. In addi...

Does anyone know a good song for a running dictation for a pre-int/int class?

Thank you!

thanks for your reply.
is the book you mean-A Grammar Companion for Primary Teachers
by Beverly Derewianka

thank you

Hi Sorry if this is in the wrong area. I have just qualified as a TEFL teacher but as yet have no experience. However an acquaintance of mine has asked me to start giving him private lessons. He is Russian and has no problem conversing or communicating at all but where he needs help is grammar. His ...

does anyone have any ideas for games or activities for a class combining the past simple and the past continuous?

thanks..