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Could anybody help with suggestions for coursebooks to use for short (4 week) intensive courses with adults.

I need to make a deccision about this soon.

thanks for any advice

Alex

Could anybody help me with a major problem I'm having.

I'm teaching a pre-intermediate class and some students are definitely intermediate level, others are false beginner.

What can I do with this mix of levels? I'm getting frustrated, please help!

Alex

Hello Edwin, You could try to set this up as project work. Group all the tourism students together, doctors together etc. In their groups, they prepare a presentation for the rest of the class. If their English isn't good enough for a presentation, they could make a poster. They can use the internet...

I don't agree with using reading to teach pronunciation. First of all if you listen to native speakers reading a text, their voices often become monotonous and a lot of intonation is lost. Secondly, using poems doesn't seem the best way. Poets often adapt pronunciation to fit with the rhythm of what...

Hello auntie,

You gave me some ideas for planning a series of lessons but I don't understand what you mean by pronunciation that comes up naturally.

Can you please explain

thanks, Alex

Dear Auntie, I've just taken over a class of teenagers from another teacher who was having trouble with them and I can see why. They don't want to work together, they laugh at each other, they don't work hard in class and don't like the course book. I think the book's too easy and childish for them ...

Dear Auntie Lucy,

I have a new textbook to use with my students that was chosen by someone else. The level is too high and it doesn't suit my teaching style.

What can I do with it? Please don't say change it. I have no choice, I have to use it.

Thanks

Alex

Dear Auntie,

I would like to try planning a series of lessons instead of giving one-off lessons.

How do I go about doing this?

Thank you

Alex

Dear Auntie Lucy, I'm teaching low intermediate students who make mistakes with basic tenses. They also get comparitives and superlatives all wrong. When I try to present the language they complain that they know it all already. What can I do with them? They won't be able to pass to the next level i...

Can you help me with pronunciation for Spanish students?

My students never get the pronunciation of words like stream or string right.

They all say "estream" or "estring". I don't know what to do.

Thanks

Alex

Dear Auntie Lucy,

I've been teaching for about a year and want to try using newspapers with low levels. Any ideas?

Thanks

Alex