According to Brown (2001), “for most second language learners who are already literate in a previous language, reading comprehension is primarily a matter of developing appropriate, efficient comprehension strategies.” Following are ten reading tips meant to help…
After being part of the APIES (Associação dos Professores de Inglês do Espírito Santo) Board for 7 years, time has come to say goodbye. I was the representative of APIES in the south of Espírito Santo for one year, the secretary for four years, and since 2015 I have…
Teaching family members used to be a touchy subject to me. When I started planning a lesson from any textbook, I would always think about my students and ask myself lots of questions: Do they have all/most of these family members?, Do they live with their parents?
Teaching English to children at a public school in Vitória/ES
Class 5 (50 minutes)
Target Vocabulary
Parts of the face (hair, eyes, nose, ears, mouth), colors (six colors were taught in the first grade. These six colors were recycled in the second grade. Four more colors…
Teaching English to children at a public school in Vitória/ES Class 3 (50 minutes)
Target Vocabulary
Parts of the face (hair, eyes, nose, ears, mouth), colors (six colors were taught in the first grade. These six colors were recycled in the second grade. Four more…
Teaching English to children at a public school in Vitória/ES
If you have read my June post, you may recall that it was about how I designed the syllabus and created the modules I work on with my 6-to-10-year-old students at a public school in Vitória/ES. This month, you…
Teaching English to 6-to-10-year-old children at a public school in Vitória/ES - Paulo Torres
23/06/2016
It all started in February 2013. After passing a public contest in 2012, I had to choose the school I was going to work at. Among the possibilities was a school which had never offered English as a modern language before. I ended up choosing this school because I would have…
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My April post was about using songs in class. In order to exemplify some of the tips given, I decided to prepare a song activity. This activity was prepared for an A2 group and we were working on weather words. Below you will find the instructions and…
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…
