Our Junior B students have recently come up with some truly wonderful work when they were asked to create their own town, write about it and present it to their classmates. Rather than doing more and more exercises on tedious worksheets, they had to communicatively use structures such as "My town has got/hasn't got", "In [...]
Teenagers are frequently regarded as unmotivated learners, as it is often the case that their parents sign them up for classes they do not want to attend. Therefore the challenge to us teachers is to help our students motivate themselves, by involving them in activities that are interesting and valuable to them. Some creative writing [...]
What's the point of learning a language if you know nothing about the culture of its speakers? We thought that introducing our young French learners to the world of the legendary French cuisine would boost their motivation and ultimately their learning, since it would connect their learning experience to the real world. The results exceeded [...]
