Learned Words | Kymberly Fergusson
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Teaching
- Learning how to weave & spin
- Learning as an adult
- Encouraging children to learn
- Teaching and language learning resources on Patreon
- Resources for English teachers and students
- Prepare for conversation classes
- Written homework is important for conversation classes
- Choosing conversation topics
- Starting a new conversation class
- What if you won a medieval village?
- A traveling teachers toolkit
- Bite-sized language prompts for students and teachers
Prompts
- Conversations based on photos
- How did you choose ... ?
- Telling stories
- Gaming conversations
- Basic questions for beginners
- Talking about dreams and ideas
- Interview someone
- We are all experts
- Write about a dream
- Memorable moments
- Moving overseas
- 50 travel conversation prompts
- Illness and treatments
- Talking about the past
- Natural pests
- Moving house
- Solving tricky problems
- Complaints
Vocabulary
- 3 word games for vocabulary building and practice
- Australian animals word search puzzle
- 30 travel idioms
- Words about cars
- Words rhyming with ‘ale’
- Professions crossword
- Food and ingredients crossword
- 15 Idioms from around the world
- Word brainstorms for vocabulary building
- Words ending with -ill
- Words for basic office supplies
- Spelling checkers for language learners
- Learning dialog tags
- 20 Cooking and food idioms
Learning
- Interact to learn a language faster
- Learning Japanese without a teacher
- How to learn new words and remember them
- Daily language learning hacks
- When you get stuck while learning a language
- How to be an independent learner
- Motivation and language learning
- Dealing with language learning burnout
- How to massively improve speaking confidence in conversation classes
- Use it or lose it
- Bite-sized podcasts for English fluency
- Can you learn a language fast with language hacks?
- Learn English with free ESL podcasts
- The two things you need to learn languages easily
Writing
- Tiers and rewards at Patreon refocused
- August bonuses for the Learned Words Patreon
- Virtual artist dates
- Developing a writing practice
- Tools I use to write and teach
- Resources for writers
- Read to write
- Switching from Evernote to OneNote
- Writing isn’t just for writers
- Simplified language is not stupid