Marcela Cintra –
When asked about our students we, all remember the brilliant or the devilish ones. We boast about those students who excelled in their studies or professional lives because of our lessons or laugh at the displays of misbehaviour we faced throughout…
José Roberto A. Igreja –
Vicious
As aparências realmente enganam! O adjetivo vicious não pode ser traduzido por “vício”. Pode até significar “vicioso” na expressão vicious circle (círculo vicioso), mas quase sempre funciona como um adjetivo que…
Jane Godwin Coury –
Introduction
Teaching advanced students on a one-to-one basis can be a privilege both for the student and the teacher. The student has the teacher´s full time attention and has the opportunity to ask any niggling questions. The teacher can…
Gladys Garcia –
Critical thinking is one of the so-called 21st century skills, it means, it is one of the skills required from professionals in the 21st century. However, it is not only that; it is a life skill. First of all, we must consider what critical thinking is.
Choosing and preparing a song for a class activity may be a hard task. Here are some tips on how to select and prepare a song activity, not necessarily in the order presented. Songs have to be appropriate to the level of proficiency of students and intelligible;
Take…
Marcela Cintra – 19
Some weeks ago I was talking to a colleague about going to conferences as she said she was not very fond of such events. Her reasons were very plausible: more of the same, an enormous amount of money she could be spending on something else…
