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Hi I taught 2 children aged 4 and 12 aged 5 and *loved* it. Consequently I was really passionate about developing stuff they enjoyed doing. I thought I'd share some of the keepers from my repertory. In general terms I used arts activities like painting and crafts as a stimulating way for them to rep...

Hi I'm thinking of adding a component into my course that would involve having the students watch an episode of something (min 30- max 60 minutes) and critique like a reviewer but I feel I'm reinventing the wheel. I'm wondering if anybody knows some good materials out there I should look at. Googlin...

...actually I am using a kind of testing and emerging 'skills deficits' address approach, which involves studying the students and picking specific exercises for trends spotted in diagnostic pre-tests. I didn't make that clear but it'd have been too much to cover anyway. But thanks for the reply. So...

Hello, this is my first post. I have just recently finished designing my own 12-week course for iBT TOEFL prep. Basically I took one of the models from one of the few available books and I injected a whole lot of review and even more pure skills-enrichment. That's a gross summarization but the resul...