What is your ideal teacher like?

Teaching is not a particularly easy job to carry out. Actually, there are more and more cases of people who try it and give it up after a while. We have had some examples at school.

 

Not long ago remember we were talking about... More demanding jobs and stressful lives

It is true that it is a very demanding job as you have to be proficient in the subject you teach, you have to be highly motivating, you have to cope with students' misbehaviour in an appropriate way, you have to be a Super Teacher using ITC tools, there are more and more laws, changing every minute, you have to keep families informed... and so on.

What should teachers be like? Many students would prefer a super-teacher who would be telling jokes the whole time, giving high marks to everyone and not making them work (among other things). On the contrary, as you grow older, or when you miss chances in life because you are not well-prepared, you appreciate other characteristics, but perhaps it is already too late.

Before going on, let's just stop for a minute and see the difference between 'ADVICE' and 'ADVISE' (Learners' questions, BBC Learning English)

 

Anyway, here are some pieces of advice to become a good teacher.

The 10 Best Pieces of Teaching Advice for Every Educator    

 

Listen to this song

You Have Made A Difference - A Teacher appreciation song

and read its lyrics to see if you agree with it.

 

And here's some advice to become the best teacher of English. Unfortunately, the article is in Spanish. Do you agree with it?

Here's a most interesting TED talk about Education by Rita Pierson: "Every kid needs a champion"  

Revise the PREPOSITIONS OF TIME with Papa English

For my 1º ESO students, here's an important piece of news:

Let's read Sinbad   >>>>    SINBAD  

What can we do to improve our marks in 'Sinbad':

• Prepare for the control we will have

• Read aloud at home and listen to the reader (the audios are available in your pendrive)

• Do the activities proposed in the book

• Translate it into Spanish using your dictionaries (NO TRANSLATORS!!!!)

• Make a comic

• Do the (BOOK REVIEW) CONTROL SHEET ON TERM READER

Here's a listening exercise for you to do: Chatting to new people  (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) Can it be good for your mental health?

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Stories for Children >>> Milly and the Rainbow (BBC Learning English)

 

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Shall we eat? Yes, but...

Are you allergic to nuts or gluten? Are you lactose intolerant? There are so many people nowadays who have some kind of food allergy that it may be a big issue when eating out as you have to check everything before you order your food.

Would you like some FROZEN YOGURT?

Here are some articles for you to read about the issue and then you have a listening exercise to do:

• Why are food allergies in children on the rise – and is there anything parents can do to protect them? (The Guardian)

• Why the world is becoming more allergic to food (BBC - Health)

• Allergies: the scourge of modern life? (The Guardian)

And here's another previous post about food allergies:

What to eat or not to eat? that is the question!!!

Here's a listening exercise to do: Are food allergies more common now? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

Talking about the word spot we recently saw in class, here's another meaning: To have a soft spot ?(The English We Speak)

 

Learn about fruit, vegetables and nuts with Lucy

 

And some food phrasal verbs

 

How To Say Common English Expressions! | 💬 Small Talk PART 1 by mmmEnglish

6 Minute Vocabulary: In, at, on with time expressions (BBC Learning English)

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