Teaching vocabulary by Jeremy Harmer

Why are words so important? Words are what a language is made of. Their meaning, how they related to each other, what the other words they like to be with, how we can bend and twist their meaning to our own advantage.These are the things that make language fun, creative, humanistic. There are many vocabulary books available and being written about the topic vocabulary. But vocabulary is more than merely lists. In the first place meaning is a slippery concept. Secondly students need to know the ways words are formed, how we can change a verb into a noun, or if a word can be made into an adjective and so on. Perhaps the best vocabulary exercises are reading and listening lots and lots of reading and listening and if the students are motivated, the words they meet there are likely to be better learned and acquired. Other ways of teaching vocabulary are by showing objects or pictures, listing a number of things in categories such as vegetables, or music or matching words with definitions, fill-ins, and so on. (JH is a teacher trainer and materials writer who has worked extensively in the UK and Mexico and led training sessions all over the world.)

In life....

In life, it is not where you go. It's who you travel with.

A Hug Certificate for You

Gift Certificate to you from ME! A Hug Certificate for You! If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you And share with you its beauty On the days you're feeling blue. If I could build a mountain You could call your very own; A place to find serenity, A place to be alone. If I could take your troubles I would toss them in the sea, But all these things, I'm finding, Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend who's always there..

A little bit about grammar.Shall we?

I know, I know. Everything concerned to grammar usually makes people turn noses up. Lets try to understand why grammar is so important.Jeremy Harmer is a teacher trainer and materials writer. He has worked extensively in the UK and Mexico and has books published by Longman. He has an interesting opinion about this subject and states that teachers are interested in grammar, but students are not and prefer exercises like fill-ins and sentences completions. Although, we can't abandon any approaches to grammar but it does suggest that teachers should be sensitive to such needs. Choosing methods and activities pragmatically .Sometimes a simple situation which provokes five or six models sentences seems to be an ideal way to expose students to some new grammar, e.g. six things that somebody does every day to teach the present simple, a passage with several ways of talking about the past or a list of adjectives and theirs comparative forms . Deal with it is very important. Grammar is the study or use of the rules about how words change their form and combines with other words to make sentences(Cambridge Int Dictionary). Without this we would not be able to string words together in any meaningful way. See you.

One-Moment Meditation How to Meditate in a Moment - YouTube.flv

 Look at this. We can learn while we relax. We relax while we learn. Good, isn't it? Love, Cleo.

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The happy side of life

How to make flowers grow where there are only ashes? How to make a closed heart open for joy? If you find a person like this, patience. Let him talk and expose his feelings. But show him, the cheerful side of life and trust in time. Time will, little by little, clear the ideas, like the dirt that stays on the botton of the waters. Do not let the discouragement of the others put you down. Those who trust in God win the discouragement. Thoughts of the book "Peace Every Day" by Lourival Lopes Have a worderful week. Cleo.

New methods and techniques of teaching and learning a foreign language Technological Devices

Nowadays we all belong to the hightech generation. We are the digital generation indeed. We're inserted in a world surrounded by computers, notebooks, i-pods, dateshow, pendrivers, internet, e-boards, celphones, smartphones and so on. Tech devices are important tools to help teachers. When to use it or how to use it, in benefit of students, is the question. This modern way of teaching and learning a foreign language is a result of a natural process of evolution, although, sometimes, we find teachers that resist to change i/o trying to adapt themselves.Different methods and techniques can bring conflicts but it can be constructive to achieve success on practice and on dealing with teacher's routine tasks. Students need a motivation to learn and hightech can mean a big and pleasant approach. Approach is axiomatic, a method is procedural and a technique can be implemented.Common sense will tell how and how much to use those sources.New high tech devices mean more dynamic and appealing classes but can also represents a time consuming that requires special attention.Educators must find the balance and have always a dominion over the contents and prepare it well and in advance.See you.