Tag: work

Two words: phrasal verbs.  Phrasal verbs are combinations of a verb plus one or more prepositions, and they are nightmares for my students because the meaning of the same …

Ever had that terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad feeling when it’s 15 minutes before class and you have absolutely no material or lesson plan or idea what you’re going to …

My Difficult Student was absent on the date the midterm test was administered. The following week, I had the corrected exams ready to hand back to the other students, …

Most group classes have what I like to call the Difficult Student. It’s the one who’s always playing with their cell phone in class, or who is chronically 30 …

I currently spend about 6 hours per week preparing and planning my English classes. This is time for which I am not paid, and it’s not strictly necessary, since …

For a long time, I would get annoyed at the way people walk on the streets of Salvador: 1) Slowly 2) Illogically – sometimes people seem to change their …

I wrote this article for the website of Teaching House New York, where I got my CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults). I teach in Salvador, capital …

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your …