A month on TPRS

Well, almost a month. Time to take stock. What’s happened? Today, I taught two classes of EFL, both without a textbook and in one I used a song. For the rest of the time, it was just me talking and asking simple questions, using information supplied by the students themselves. TPRS works. And I haven’t [...]

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Blogging with students (4)

Because the task I described at the end of my previous post, proved a little too challenging for my students, I re-cast it (see below). I’m trying to lead them to an understanding of web 2.0 What is good blogging? Visit this blog, then this one. Which is better (more interesting, more useful) do you [...]

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Blogging with students (3)

I then set them the following task: Look again at my blog entry British Sports News. Then answer the questions below on your blog. Good blogging is NOT: a diary: Dear Blog, Today I got up at 6.30. I hada cup of coffee for breakfast. I brushed my teeth. I went to work by train. [...]

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Blogging with students (2)

This post follows my previous entry on Blogging with students. Today I had another session with the one class I teach this year where we are using the Internet as an integral part of the class. Yesterday, I wrote a model blog entry in order to encourage them to write in English show them what [...]

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