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I have been looking for materials like these for a while .Thank you very much.

We had speakers once a week and I used to take notes on the board while they were talking. You could do the same as they listen to the recording. I used mind mapping and several other note taking techniques and varied it each week until all the students had a strategy for note taking that they felt...

Students to tend to drift off when listening to a recording. Could you read it yourself? Maybe throw in some of your own words. An activity I like to do, in regards to listening activities, is to read and make an occasional error. The student who detects the error gets an extra point, or whatever m...

Dear all, I teach the advanced in a Foundation Program and my problem is the students are not attentive and not enjoying the listening lectures no matter what I do . For pre-listening activities, I use brainstorming or some YouTube activities. However, once I start the recording they lose track and ...

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I use similar codes for error correction. These are useful for sentence error corrections.
When marking writing papers, I like to give the students some feedback about their ideas and organization as well. It is time consuming but the students will benefit from it.

Hello Selma, I believe giving feedback to students is very important. How you give feedback depends on the skill you where testing. For example, when giving feedback through the answers with the students. I focus on questions that seemed to be problematic to the students . I also give a brief summar...

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Are you in a teacher education program or is this required by your job? 1- Educational goals & objectives. These are like you stated, to build the four skills. This means that your objectives are going to include activities which give the students practice in the four skills. This is something I no...

Hi! Help us to help you! What teacher portfolio? What course are you doing? Rania Hi Rania I am teaching a Northstar - Upper Intermediate level integrated skills (listening- speaking- reading - writing & grammar). In the memo given us to us by the English Dep, the portfolio should include the follo...

Dear all, Am a new teacher , teaching for the first time in my life, and I am very worried about the teacher portfolio. I would be grateful if you answer the following questions. If you have any tips and\or advice, I really appreciate them. 1- Is there a format for the portfolio? For example, introd...