Learning – Learning tips
Motivation and language learning
'I want a raise, and to get it I need to improve my English.'' You get all fired up and motivated at the start of your plans, but then your motivation vanishes.
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Vocabulary – Vocabulary
30 travel idioms
Even beginners are faced with idioms if they travel to an English speaking country for a holiday. That’s why it’s important to include idioms in all levels of language courses.
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Prompts – Conversation prompts
50 travel conversation prompts
The most requested topics in a conversation class with my older students is travel. Making the second or third lesson in a course about travel helps the students feel more comfortable with each other and improves speaking confidence.
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Learning – Learning tips
Dealing with language learning burnout
Do you want to throw the towel in on your language learning journey and just give up? If you said yes, you may be burned out.
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Learning – Learning tips
How to massively improve speaking confidence in conversation classes
What’s the one thing most students are afraid of? Making mistakes and looking silly in front of the other students. Here's how to get past that.
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Teaching – Teaching
Choosing conversation topics
When choosing conversation topics, it’s most important that you pick topics the students like and want to talk about. If they aren’t interested in the topics, they’ll stop coming to class, or just stop talking. No teacher wants that!
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Teaching – Teaching
Starting a new conversation class
If you are anything like me, as both a teacher and a student, starting a new conversation class is terribly scary.
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Prompts – Conversation prompts
Illness and treatments
Most of us have been ill. We’ve all done things to ‘fix’ our illness, even if it’s just the common cold. Unfortunately, this also happens when you are traveling, on holiday or for work.
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