Classroom Strategies
How to Ask a Story … TPRS strategies
“Enjoy yourself. Have fun. Laugh at their funny ideas.”
Judith Dubois
Comprehensible Input
A New Metaphor
My friend Christine, who has been studying English with me for several years now. I’ve explained to her the principles of Comprehensible Input. Today she was explaining to me that she had trained to be an “ergothérapeute”. The word was new to me and I asked her to explain what it meant. She said an
Conference
Which Conference is the Best?
A traveller arrived at the gate to a large city in the dessert.
Conference
My Trip to Germany
I was struck by the friendliness, the generosity, the helpfulness and the gracious hospitality of the Germans. More than the monuments and architecture, what impressed me were the lively, animated conversations that were being carried on in the cafés and streets and trains. There always seemed to be someone laughing somewhere. I hope to return before long.
Classroom Strategies
How to stay out of the rut when working on a lonnnnnng film.
What are ways to keep a entire film interesting to our students, scene after scene after scene?
Articles from the Net
Are we fishing for reps the right way?
I often come across interesting articles that I share on the Facebook TPRS Witch page. I am going to start a new category here on the website where I will stock these thought-provoking articles so that they can be easily found.
Reflections
Qui sont-ils, les gens de TPRS?
J’aime les voir dans les cafés et restaurants d’Agen, parlant en anglais et français et parfois en espagnol ou en allemand, si ce n’est pas le bretonne ou le mandarin. Il est merveilleux de voir ces gens passionnés, venant des quatre coins du monde, échangeant leurs idées, leurs expériences, leurs espoirs pour leurs élèves.
Classroom Strategies
Jigsaw Conversations
It might be a good activity to showcase if you are being inspected by someone who wants to see « communicative activities. »
Classroom Strategies
How to Teach Writing
“Why didn’t I use the sacred red pen? Because student minds retain things that are underlined in red. They retain them …. and reproduce them. Haven’t you ever wondered why students keep making the same mistakes over and over? The mistakes that you have been so carefully underlining in red? “
Classroom Management
The Skeleton in the TPRS Closet
“It’s time to stop thinking of translation as something shameful that we do only when no one is looking.”