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Recently a friend asked me for my suggestions for three 18-hour workplace workshops on "vital workplace communication skills" for ESL students. The workshops have to also be open to native English speakers. Does anybody have some practical tips on what should be included? How would you structure it...

I was a poor soul at Physics, brngs back bad memories CLIL is a buzz word now and it takes a LOT from the staff side to make it come into reality. Lithuania has all the potential to start doing so.

If it's ot too late, I'd like to join. I teach individual students, some are Intermediate level.

This time yours truly is in need of ideas. I've got 3 more lessons wo go with kids aged 7-9, 10-12, 12-14. Groups are a terible mix, so the smallest kids spend their time colouring because they cry if I give a handout. I need some good games for various levels using minimal reources (a pen, a paper ...

Why do you need to? To do some fairly pointless practice to get some sort of possibly useless qualification? If so it isn't your fault, but maybe it is about time the academic community stopped turning all students into characters about as welcome as Jehovah's witnesses. The best you are going to g...

It's a problem that I need to carry out a research but I cannot do it until teachers provide the facts from their own classroom.

I am still struggling with my article 'Using Translation into L1 in TEFL' and finally the theory part is done. I have compiled a questionnaire for TEFL teachers to share their views about the topic. I would be grateful if you could take part. PM or email me for more info, thank you!

It surely depends on the audience. For example, I come from Lithuania where online tutoring tradition is just developing. We have some distance courses but the majority of people prefer face to face lessons. Also, older people are not very computer literate, so if it's Skype or Mars, the same thing ...

Please give some example sentences of their mistakes so that we can have a better idea of what is going wrong.