Teaching adults… This is a post I’ve been stalling on for weeks, but, difficult to write as it is, I can’t put it on hold anymore. I’d like to begin by sharing three seemingly unrelated anecdotes which, by the end of the post, will hopefully have made some sort of sense.
Here’s a one-minute video to help you present should have. There are grammar discovery questions on the screen, but you might want to show students the actual scene only and devise your own questions.
Haggling is obviously culture-specific, so this post might make more or less sense to you depending on where you’re from. But if you teach students who are familiar with the concept of haggling, here’s a fun video you can use for role playing in class:
Timelines for teaching verb tenses are great. Seriously. I’ve been telling teachers to use timelines for as long as I can remember, but, strangely enough, they used to play a lesser role in my own classroom practice. I believe this has a lot to do with my baffling inability to make sense of anything that bears the …
