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i hate cutting edge! i am using the upper intermediate and advanced texts, i assume yours are beginner texts? the school director chose it for these classes because she thought the other books were "too easy" (the passages series). but i don´t think cutting edge challenges the students any more, exc...

I tutor a painfully shy fourteen year old girl three hours a week. I would say her English is at the lower intermediate level. I spend the entire lesson trying to coax her to talk, and most of the time when she does I can´t hear her! I´ve scoured the idea cookbook but haven´t found anything particul...

i found that the "too cool" kids are often also kind of show-offs. if you can get them talking or doing some activity that can make them feel like they're being funny and therefore impressing their classmates but ALSO has them doing the work you want them to do, this is good. with my class of ALL 16...

I was wondering if anyone could suggest a good reference book on English grammar, more for myself than for my students. I haven't had any formal TEFL training, and my teaching experience has been conversational. I'm going to Brazil in February to teach "for real" and I think I need to study my gramm...