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Thanks Fluffy, I apprecaite that. And indeed the idea cookbook does have some good and some bad ideas. And until you actually test them in the classroom yourself you don't know whether they will work for your situation or not. You are very thoughtful and have some good ideas, some of them I may be a...

Brian, I did not ask for people to plan the lessons, I asked for help for ideas for this particular type of class. Yes, I am familar with the cookbook, and BEFORE I posted here I went through it. I did find some things there that I may be able to use after spending some time to alter them to adapt t...

Thank you for your reply Sally. However, this is the first time for me that I have asked this particular question. I went through the links you sent me, both of them, plus two more than were mentioned in one of the threads. To be honest, after looking through them, I really did not see any real idea...

Hi, I need help thinking about some ideas for my class. Situation: I have been asked to teach a one hour class at a prestigous high school, it is a club only, it is not a real class for the students, it is something fun for them. There are several high schools involved and every week about 50% of th...

one issue I have is that most of these students are studying like 2 hours a week and expect miracles. I do my best in this 2 hour class to present what I can to them, what they choose to do during the next 6 days is up to them Quite. If you gave piano lessons instead of English lessons, what would ...

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Hello All, apologize for my four days of no reply. Been busy. Thank you all for your comments. The student who thinks learning anything is simply a question of being spoon-fed information is never going to progress beyond a basic level. And in my experience, the ones who say "I've paid so why aren't...

Wow what interesting things have come out of my posts... Not blaming the students at all. But it is the responsibility of the student to ask questions and do their homework. Indeed the teacher has a lot of responsiblity also, and indee dhave clear objectives. I am not arguing that at all. Yes, it is...

I don't want to give the wrong impression, I am not lazy. I understand that students want to know, but how they ask sometimes makes me feel that they do not have the motivation to really learn, they just want it handed to them, they don't want to come to class every week, they don't want to study at...

Hi guys, I am looking for some articles in well known publications that put an end to the question(s) How long will it take to learn a langauge well, or how long will it take to be fluent in English, or why can't I learn faster, etc. Especially if the student is not taking classes everyday, some of ...

Thanks for your quick reply fluffy and info. I recommend a lot of things to my students already, but it never seems to sink in. I am in Taiwan by the way. I can hold a conversation with my students, they are at that level. I don't need to teach them ABC or 5000 easy vocab words, actually they want t...

Hello fluffymamster, Thank you for your comments. AL forums? Can you give me the link, seems I may not be familar with that site yet. Indeed I have been doing a lot of research, but am not finding much, and my schedule does not allow me to do as much as I would like. Yes, I do think it is my respons...

Hi guys, I am looking for some articles in well known publications that put an end to the question(s) How long will it take to learn a langauge well, or how long will it take to be fluent in English, or why can't I learn faster, etc, etc, etc, you see where I am going with this. I get tired of my st...

Hi all, I am wondering if there is an assessment test already out there that someone has done. I've gone though these forums and have not found anything pratical at all, most of the threads have absouletely no links in them, only people giving advice on what questions they should ask. To me, that is...