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Could you please inform me about the sites which could be used to design a lesson about Christmas or New Year. My group is adults at a Low Elementary Level.

I received a job offer which involves teaching a class of elementary students using "Enterprise", but I have found that this book has absolutely no scope for communicative activities. It consists mostly of dull, uninspiring texts and gap-filling exercises. I worked with "Cutting Edge" and I found it...

Hello, Macavity, Thank you very much for your reassuring reply. I understand that it is probably OK to use L1 to give instructions and feedback or clarify some tricky grammar points, but I wouldn't like to translate while explaining the meaning of new vocabulary, since they may link an English word ...

I share L1 with my group of adult beginners, and I don't want to fall back on translation, though it seems the easiest way, and my students expect me to do just this. I almost read it in their eyes: "Stop fooling around and tell us the Russian word for THIS!" I've been taught to believe in teaching ...