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'gift' is not the case, while what the thing is, why they can get the gift? and why some others have no gift?? Gifts are only kinda 'symbol', in reflection of their hard work/intelligent ideas...... when only they 'pay out' can they later get the gifts, otherwise, you could impossibly get your share...

Is she good at other things in school? Are there problems with learning other things? Who is bringing her to lessons and why do they want her to learn English? What does she like to do in her free time? What subject does she like at school? Have you interviewed her parents, her teachers to find out...

get them more native-english input~~if what they heard is sooo poor english how could we expect they speak out nice one?

Hi everyone~ im with a class consist of 23 7-year-old kids. when i design in-class activities, i'm at a loss on whether i should focus on every single kid or all do whole class games?? focus on single ones : i know each kid could definitely get good chance to practice and i could clearly know their ...

Maybe you just need to have five minutes at the begining of class for students to ask questions (in English) that are relevant to class or current events. . Totally agree!! my class gets 23 7-year-old kids with endless weird questions, what worse is ,they all stick to their own questios but donnot ...

kids pick up language do not by clear grammar but imitation. i saw so many bilingual or even multilingual kids ,they can turn the language code exactly from one situation to another. When they grow up, success will come when conditions are ripe.

I'm a teacher of a group of kids about 20 kids aged 6-7 years old. i divided them into 5 teams as i usually organized games in class. Recently i noticed a boy refused to join any games with weird excuses as' i'm sleepy/ i dont wanna....i once tried to encourage him but that didn't work, i know i can...

I think you can try your best to find her interests first by chatting with her. That's quite right. Don't push her so hard, you might begin with discussing sth. favored by her age, and what kind of an english teacher she's got at school, the crucial thing is what she likes/dislikes about this teach...

I once got exactly the same experience. Your might to initiate his interest about learning but not making him view you just as an english only to infuse what he should learn. My that kid was an avid fan of NBA, so i mingled 'what he should learn' with facts of NBA. e.g, one unit of his textbook is a...