Does teacher talking time matter? If you’ve been in the profession long enough, chances are that you’ve either been told that your teacher talking time (TTT) was way too high or that you’ve told another teacher (perhaps during peer observation) that his or her teacher talking time was too high.
Here’s another post in the test your English series. This one focuses on the use of the gerund or infinitive after the word to. Look at the sentences below. Would you use go or going to complete each one? 1. No, you didn’t wake me up. I am used to _____ to bed late. Don’t …
In the last twenty years or so, I have changed my mind about a lot of things: my mom, Celine Dion, politics, my career, MAC computers, McDonald’s, oral correction in class, soap operas, Ford cars, task-based teaching, grammar teaching, shampoo, drilling, suffering fools gladly, communicative language teaching and Lindt chocolates. I do hold, however, two …
