Time Management and Effective Reading
The 4th session of our course English Without Books was a soft-skills lesson on effective learning, with focus on Reading. Apart from addressing a few students´self-study issues and hanging up their written out goals around the classroom, we all shared tips on time management and effective learning strategies. INDULGE IN LEARNING I believe in learning [...]
Pub Discussion
The “Pub Discussion” session had to come early inour English Without Books course, since Czechs love going to pubs and so do native speakers living in Brno. So we agreed to meet at the Sherlock Holmes pub, at 5:30pm as usual, and talked and laughed and drank/ate and discussed the English language. A few even [...]
English Without Books: Self-study Jump Start
After our first meeting last Wednesday I was extremely excited about conducting our second session and looking forward to seeing my new students again! We were in touch via Skype, Facebook and email but to meet them all in person, as a group, easily became the highlight of my working week. I have never met [...]
English Without Books: Intro Session
As an English teacher, I have always leaned towards non-traditional, conversational, playful way of learning. I used to organize movie nights, lessons in pubs and city trips, but I still taught from books when in the classroom. Then, when my daughter was born, I had time to reconsider my somewhat traditional approach in class and [...]
