Currently, a huge number of senior students get a job and begin to combine two types of activity at once: labour and education. Sometimes this step is dictated by the desire of the student himself, but most often by necessity. How to combine work and study so that...
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07/02/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Guest Posts
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Quick Ways To Get Your Students’ Attention If you are looking for some quick ways that can help you get your students’ attention, check out the following suggestions. Use a signal for Zero noise. E.g. if I clap once, I want you all to keep silent and pay...
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06/02/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management
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Research shows that classroom management is one of the main preoccupations for novice teachers; in many cases, it may be more important than subject knowledge for them. However, during preparing training courses for teachers, classroom management receives little attention when compared with more general aspects of the methodology....
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02/02/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Classroom Management
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Views of English Learning Earlier views of English learning focused primarily on the mastery of grammatical competence (GC). According to this view: English learning was viewed as a process of mechanical habit formation. Good habits are formed by teaching students to produce correct sentences. Making mistakes is not...
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30/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Lanaguage Teaching Approaches
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1. Number the jumbled words as you hear them: Don’t be restricted to nouns only, include adjectives as well. Use content words rather than form words (i.e. no prepositions, conjunctions or articles). You might include 1 or 2 words that do not spell as they sound, like ‘eight’...
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28/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Listening Activities, Testing and Assessment
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What is Gentle Teaching? Gentle Teaching is a teaching approach. It has four teaching purposes. It aims at teaching students how to: Feel safe, Feel loved, Be engaged, Show gentleness and love to each other. These purposes are achieved through using repeated words of affection, eye contact and...
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25/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Brain-based ELT
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A Good Language Test Should Be: 1- Valid: It means that it measures what its composer supposes to measure. It tests what it ought to test. E.g. the test which measures control of grammar should have no difficult lexical items. 2- Reliable: If it is taken again by...
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08/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Although learning to teach well occurs over time after going through a lot of teaching practices but it involves mainly four things: knowing, planning, doing, and reflecting. If you keep doing these four things, you will be able to achieve a degree of master in your teaching and...
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01/01/2020 Mohamed Ramadan
Professional Development
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Here are the main nine patterns of questions to test writing skills and tips to excel in writing each pattern. 1. Fill in the missing vocabulary items in sentences: The first sentence should have no gaps. Provide sufficient textual clues for students to answer. Each sentence should contain...
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30/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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Below are some patterns of questions to test reading skills. Each pattern includes what students are asked to do to answer the question and some guidelines to help the teachers write this kind of question in a good way. 1. Read the following sentences and number them in...
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29/12/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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