ELTChat Summary: Conversation and Situational English

New to ELTchat? If you have never participated in an #ELTchat discussion, these take place twice a day every Wednesday on Twitter at 12pm GMT and 9pm GMT. Over 400 ELT educators participate in this discussion by just adding #eltchat to their tweets. For tips on participating in the discussion, please take a look at this video, Using Tweetdeck for Hashtag Discussions. What do you think? Leave a comment! Defining conversation and situational lessons. On Wednesday 20th of July the first ELTchat of the day discussed the subject of teaching conversation and situational English. The chat...

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Using Soundcloud in an Unplugged One to One Class

Note taking is one of the central tenets of Teaching Unplugged, and the more I try to practice it, the harder I realise it is. This is especially true in a one-to-one setting. I find it's particular tricky because I want to sustain genuine face to face conversation, and having me scribbling away feels like a level of artifice that distracts from the quality of the conversation. Furthermore, if I'm being honest, I find it difficult to concentrate on both things at the same time. Both the conversation and the note taking suffer, so nobody wins. This is where technology can step in and help...

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