Chain story to practice past tense

Open windows analysis for curriculum development

Humans attention span

Acording to a search on lgoogle humans can only retain attention for 15 20 minutes at most, this is useful, so that I can plan accordingly. 

dinamicas grupales

teaching methods

why is speaking the most difficult skill to master?

They get nervous

They need to get used to that

how to teach multilevel classes

How to define the perfect grading proportion

 how much weight to give to each item 

exam

writen exam

speaking exam 

homework

attitude?

Book review how to design curriculum

 This book gives you guidance on how to desgin courses 

how many units to teach in a semester * which is fundamental to ensure the quality of the contents and that you can teach them in an appropiate time. 

Example of a course division

Feedback from my sample class

Don't forget to perfect the structure

Avoid talking about alcohol

Focus more on the audience on the right side.

Give more contextual clues to enhance understanding.

Preguntas de conversación

 

Accidents at Home Adoption Advertising Advice Age: Youth & Old Age Airplanes Amusement Parks Anger Animals & Pets Annoying Things Arguing Art The Art of Conversation Bags and Purses Baseball Basketball Beach Beauty & Physical Attractiveness Behavior Birthdays Body Language Books & Reading Bullfighting Business Cars & Driving Celebrities Change Charity Cheating Childbirth Childhood Children Chores Cities Classrooms Cloning Clothes & Fashion College Colors / Colours Comics Community Commuting Complaining Computers Conflict Corruption Countries Creativity Crime Culture Cultural Shock & Adapting to Canada Dangers Dating Death & Dying Diets Disabilities & Handicaps Disaster Disaster Preparation Discrimination Dogs & Cats Do You Wish...? Dreams Drugs Earthquakes Easter Education Encouragement English Literature & Books English study Entertainment Environment & Pollution Everyday Questions Eye Contact Facebook Fads & Trends Faith & Faithlessness Family Family & Alternative Lifestyles Famous People Fashion Favorites Fears Feelings Films in Your own Language Fire Safety First Dates

Food & Eating Free Time & Hobbies Friends Fruits & Vegetables Future Gambling Garage sale Gardening Gay Community Gender Roles Generation Gap Gestures Getting to Know Each Other Gifts Goals Going to a Party Gossip & Rumors Habits Happiness Have You Ever ... Health Healthy Lifestyle Hobbies Holidays: Holidays April Fool's Day Christmas Halloween Saint Patrick's Day Thanksgiving After a Vacation Valentine's Day Home Homeless Hometowns Homework Honesty & Truthfulness How Long...? How often do you...? Humor If You Were...? Immigration Internet Inventions Job Interview Jobs & Occupations Jokes Languages Leaders & Leadership Learning a Foreign Language My Life so Far Likes & Dislikes Living Arrangements & Dream House Love, Dating & Marriage Machines Makeup, Lotions & Skin Care Manners Marriage Martial Arts Meaning of Life & Reasons for Living Meeting People Memory Midlife Crisis Mind, Body & Health Money & Shopping Motivation Movie Industry Movies Moving to Another Country Music Names Neighbor Complaints Neighborhood News New Media New Year's Day New Year's Resolutions Dreams, Daydreams & Nightmares Olympics Body Painting Parenting Going to a Party Planning a Party Personality Photography

Plagiarism Plans Police Politics Pope John II Possessions Poverty Prejudices Privacy Procrastination Race Religion House Renovation Restaurants & Eating Out Nursing Homes & Retirement Communities Retirement Russia & the World Safety Inside & Outside of Home School Science & Technology Secrets Self-employment Service Industry Silly Questions Single Life Sleep Smoking Social Problems Social Networking Sports Standardized Exams Stereotypes Stress Super Heroes in Comics Supernatural, Ghosts & Superstitions Talk About Four Things Talk About Three Things Teachers Teenagers Telepathy Telephones Television Tell me about...? Terror Texting Time Tipping Trade Fairs, County Fairs & Industrial Exhibitions Traffic Accidents Transportation Trauma Travel Tsunami Two Unemployment The Unexplained United States University Moving to the United States About the United States United States Geography United States Leadership Vegetarian Volunteer Work War Weather Weddings Weekends What if...? What would you...? When did you first...? When was the last...? White Lies Who is the greatest...? Wishes World Peace Would you ever...? Would you rather...? Drills Are You Good At ...? Days of the Week How do you...? Months of the Year

about the power of pictures to teach.

"An image says more than a thousand words".

Everyone understands better when they use pictures to explain something.

Some words cannot be described by using words. 

They are better described by using pictures.

Pictures of drawings can even express complex situations.

Actually some of the most efficient languages in the world, e.g  Chinese. Written system is based on ideographs called kanji. One small character can express an elaborated situation.

Teaching languages with stories

on teaching children and having complex elaborated activities ready.

Seasonal activities are a relief when you reach children. They also work well for adults.

Blooms taxonomy to plan classes

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juego para practicar preguntas con cuánto cuántos cuántas cuánta

Diseño del diagrama de flujo de un programa para decidir que condicional usar.

Teaching the best content with the right technique.

Excel with videos

estructura de la clase

Preguntar la fecha
Preguntar por el clima de hoy
Preguntar por el clima después , mañana en la tarde.
preguntas de las 12 areas de la vida

Repaso de la clase antepasada
Repaso de la clase pasada

Gramática tomando en cuenta idiolecto de hablante

Derivar expresiones relacionadas
Mostrar dentro del mapa del curso dónde estamos.

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