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Hi, I’m Luca. I weave old and new patterns together to develop approaches, techniques, and insights for language education professionals.
Category: Teaching Tips
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Sometimes, instructions for relatively simple and straightforward tasks can become weirdly difficult to give. Let’s take an example. Most of us are familiar with running dictations (if you don’t know what they are, you definitely should—have a look here!) It’s a great warmer / lead-in, and a very simple activity that requires minimal preparation and…
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I don’t know about you, but I find that there are some grammar points that most course books seem to just not be able, for whatever reason, to address properly in their grammar banks at the back of the book. The list varies from textbook to textbook, but there are a few recurrent suspects, especially…
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We all know how important it is to display clear aims and goals at the beginning of our classes. In addition to this, as suggested by David Byrne and Mark Heffernan in their introduction to their new MET column “On Reflection”, and following the approach adopted by the school I work for, I always try…
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Any TEFL teacher with some experience teaching higher levels will be familiar with this scene. You are teaching a classic reading-guided discovery-practice class, and the lesson is going according to plan. The target grammar for today is a thorny topic: reported speech. When it is time to check students’ comprehension of the guided discovery elicitation…
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