A panoply of teaching resources.
A thesis sentence is the like a map. It helps students focus their writing in a specific direction. When students learn to write a thesis, their writing (as well as their speaking and thinking) will become sharper and clearer. This exercise teaches students to write one thesis sentence pattern.
Here are some odd bits of information about language learning. My hope is to inspire and motivate students. The information about learning words comes from this useful site.
A website from the University of Waterloo suggests how easy it is to forget new material if we do not review.
This graph shows the speed of forgetting. It starts with material that students learn in a one hour university lecture.
It’s a new week and time to get back to reading. Well I hope that’s not the case. One objective of Extensive Reading is to develop a reading culture which continues after the training session.
This is a worksheet I scooped from a colleague’s website, ERRockstar. The purpose of the worksheet is to build awareness of reading as a part of culture.
This week, the trainees will start to make short book reports. The purpose of the report is less about making a concise summary and more about reporting how the