Daily bread 01/09/2015

• How to Teach Business Etiquette in ESL | eHow

• 80 FREE ESL business worksheets

• FREE Word Scramble Maker: Make your own word scramble!

• English for Business: EFL/ESL Lesson plans and Worksheets - Linguahouse.com

• Etiquette & Manners (Upper-Intermediate ESL/EFL Lesson Plan) English Current

• Etiquette & Manners (Advanced ESL/EFL Lesson Plan) English Current

• Excellent Chart Featuring Popular Academic Latin Phrases for Student Researchers ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

• Dave Dodgson: A year in review. Three Quick Ideas to Start your 2015 Classes | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

  "R&R: Reflections and Resolutions An obvious angle to go for at the start of the New Year is Resolutions. However, this lesson can often have the same problems as resolutions themselves – generic, hollow, and something that is quickly abandoned or forgotten. However, a couple of years ago while focusing on reflective practice during my MA course, I decided to apply some of the principles of teacher reflection to a New Year’s lesson for my students and the results were much better and it has now become a recurring feature of my late December/early January teaching. First of all, I ask students to think about everything they did, were a part of, or witnessed in the year just gone. Their first task is to identify and list the three best things from the year. This is done as a silent individual activity with plenty of thinking time – it’s often harder for people to remember the good things than the bad!   Next, the students pair up to compare their personal ‘best of’ lists with plenty of questions encouraged.   To complete the T-P-S (Think-Pair-Share) cycle, each student shares what their partner told them with the rest of the class.   Now time to focus on the things that could have gone better. Again, students get thinking time to consider what didn’t work out so well (whether through their own involvement or something beyond their control) but they must also identify why these events could have been better. I generally tell them to stick to one or two things so the overall tone of the lesson remains positive.   Steps 2 and 3 are repeated as the students compare and discuss with a partner before sharing with the class.   And now for the resolution part. Focusing on those things that could have been better, the students must decide what they can personally do in the New Year to address these shortcomings, solve these problems, or make these improvements. Their goal in this stage is to write out two specific and focused resolutions (with help from the teacher to modify and reformulate when necessary).   These can then be shared either orally or through Post-Its on the wall or a class blog if you are into that kind of thing. Don’t forget that students will appreciate their teacher taking part in this process too!"

• BBC Learning English - Course: lower intermediate / Unit 13 / Session 4 / Activity 1

• Top 20 Words We Borrowed From German | Brainscape Blog

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