Breaking Bad Teaching Habits - TEFL Videos.com

[maym86]

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[rbmafia]

Hey, thanks for this. It' really helpful.

[superfoodguru]

good vids, though teachers have to be careful not to write too much on the board w/o interacting with students

[dancingbearspainted]

thanx for the advice

[jptalkfulable2]

lol "...we all done it"

You should check your grammar before telling us all how to teach english.

[BridgeTEFL]

@jptalkfulable2

Actually he says "we've probably all done it."

I hope you are enjoying our videos!

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[manuelurdangarin]

@jptalkfulable2 Watch your manners dude!!

[SenMuJie]

@jptalkfulable2 oooh grammar nazi strikes

[xbR0wNsUgArx]

Nice tips ;) btw you're cute

[metallic1slim]

The way you write "I" looks strange to me!! lolz

[ElQuixot9]

Man, I learned about echoing when I took ICELT but it is still an issue.

Another thing I have to work on is reducing my talking time. Tips on this matter are welcome.

[BridgeTEFL]

It depends. If you are planning on traveling quite a bit in the next year, then I would recommend the 1 year subscription, so that you are able to access it from anywhere. But if you will traveling to locations where you will have poor internet connections, then the DVDs would be a better choice.

[misticosan]

What do you recommend : Buying a 1 year subscription or the DVD's?

[remond5]

Yep I got that at the end, because the first time I saw the video I thought she was making a mistake, but let's imagine that's the case, you don't interrupt her, you let her finish and then you say: "there's something that you need to change" (you can give another tip or make gestures) and ask another student for help, so he/she can say taller than... What do you think? Is right what I'm saying? Or would you do it in another way?

[BridgeTEFL]

If that were the case, then I think what you said would be a good error correction technique. It's always good to elicit the right answer from another student if you can (as long as you return to the original student and make sure they repeat the sentence with the correction).

[BridgeTEFL]

Thanks for the comments! Actually, the student was looking at 2 different people at different heights on a ladder, not a short person and a tall person.  Hope that clears it up.

[Ralexroj2]

Ummm Yeah I think we always use taller but maybe this video is arranged only to show what they want to not to teach an structure.

[madhwee87]

"This person is higher than that person"

Don't you think you should have corrected this?