For those who don’t know, ao dai is the name given to Vietnamese national costume, and yes, there is a private museum in Saigon dedicated to ao dai. I had opportunity to visit this place, located about one hour by taxi from the city center and I was really impressed.
The focus of the lesson: Animal body parts and present simple 3rd person singular
Size of the class: 40 students
Age: 11-12 years old/grade 6
Level: Elementary
Length of the lesson: 45 minutes
Here we have another interesting case. The text below (in italics) is just a brief of a couple of emails so you can understand what is going on.
At some point in life, each of us start asking ourselves if we are still young enough for doing certain things, such as teaching English abroad. Many people find teaching English abroad a very exotic thing, others consider it an adventure and others see it just a way of earning easy money.
/tʃ/ and /dʒ/ are the only two affricate phonemes in English language. Exactly like in the case of plosives and most of the fricatives, the affricate phonemes /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ come in fortis/lenis pair. The voicing characteristics are the same as for other consonants.
Adverbs are words that modify a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, noun phrase, clause, or an entire sentence.
The activities are divided into 3 categories according to when they should be done: before listening/reading, during listening/reading, and after listening/reading. Some of the activities are suitable for more than one stage but I have chosen the stage that is the most suitable for (in my opinion).
Why should you learn English? I DO believe that you need a good motivation to learn English. Without motivation, learning English will be very painful. Below are 22 reasons you should think of when you decide to learn English.
This email comes from one of my YouTube viewers who asks few interesting questions that might be useful for other prospective ESL teachers.
A typical Test-Teach-Test lesson has 4 stages: the first test stage, the teach stage, the second test stage (which is a controlled one), and the third test stage (which should be a freer one). Finding suitable activities to match the type of lesson is not an easy task. Here are some ideas of activities suitable for different stages of a Test-Teach-Test lesson (TTT).