Vocabulary

Vocabulary and Grammar – An Elementary lesson for CELTA trainees at CELT Athens

Olha Madylus teaching vocabulary necessary for her revision of the past simple with our elementary students [vodpod id=Groupvideo.10723618&w=450&h=325&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] 1st collector for An Elementary class at CELT Athens – Part 1 Follow my videos on vodpod These are the first fifteen minutes or so of a 60 minute lesson observed by […]

How not to teach English

Here are some of the things that still happen in many classrooms in Greece – do they also happen in other parts of the world? The teacher and the students talk to each other mainly using the students’ mother tongue. The teacher asks the students to read a text aloud. […]

Word for Word

<![CDATA[Panayotis used to be one of my Proficiency students. When I took over his class, he had already taken the examination twice… and failed both times. There were few words for which Panayotis could not provide synonyms, antonyms, but translation was his forte! Always keen to share his treasure trove, […]