Teacher Suzan

My favorite day of the week is Saturday, in the morning! Because, I usually wake up early, but I don't go to work. I normally have breakfast. Then I look for an interesting program on TV. I feed my dog and I wait my wife to wake up. Normally, I have lunch with my wife at home, but, sometimes, we have lunch at a restaurant. After lunch, we go for a walk. In the evening, after we have dinner, we sometimes go to the movies with our friends or we watch a movie at home. Then we go to bed late because nobody works in the morning! by Rafael Basic I Private Student

My favorite day of the week is Friday. I like to think that the weekend is coming. On Friday, I wake up at 6 a.m. I usually have breakfast. After breakfast, I go to work. In the morning about 8:30 I go to Pilates. Then I go to Gerday where I work as a physioterapist. I don't have lunch, because I work at lunchtime. In the Evening, I get home and I have dinner with my husband, after dinner we watch TV. Then we go to bed about midnight. By Luana de Paula Basic I Private Classes.

What's the importance of the classroom? A reflection on learner autonomy and the importance of the classroom by Lindsay Clandfield Submitted by britishcouncil_... on 15 February, 2011 - 08:45 A reflection on learner autonomy and the importance of the classroom by Lindsay Clandfield ( ELT Blogathon Guest Post) Like many other full-time writers, I have to engage in regular physical activity to stop from becoming too sedentary. Some people I know go to a gym, others take the dog for long walks. I go to swimming classes. I can swim. My mother dragged me kicking and screaming when I was five years old to swimming classes and the teacher was of the school that believed the best way for a child to overcome his/her fear of the water was being tossed into the deep end. It eventually did work, and I happily continued swim classes until I was ten years old. At high school I joined the swim team and I swam competitively. I wasn’t Michael Phelps but I could hold my own in a race. I trained ...

Um dos momentos que me deixa mais satisfeita nas minhas aulas é quando vejo os alunos interagindo e aplicando o conteúdo estudado na prática. Acredito que este é o princípio da abordagem comunicativa: garantir a familiarização, construção e aquisição de habilidades comunicativas através de interação humana partindo de situações reais de comunicação. Para que essas situações pareçam mais naturais, procuro fugir das situações artificiais. Para isso sou entusiasta das dinâmicas de grupo, pois estas proporcionam aos alunos comunicarem-se na LE com maior naturalidade em um ambiente descontraído e amigável. Segue abaixo uma das dinâmicas que utilizo e que tem dado super certo: 1. Peça para que cada aluno escreva uma pergunta em um pedaço de papel. Deve ser algo que eles gostariam de saber sobre seus colegas. Como, por exemplo: "Have you ever traveled abroad?" or "What kind of music do you like?" Então, peça aos alunos que se levantem. Coloque uma música bem animada...