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Engaging our students is critical to improving their
learning
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- to make an effort to understand and deal with someone or something
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We all learned our first language.It was not a download!
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We learned by getting absorbed by the activity
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We had incomparable powers of noticing and attention
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of attention.Jim Rohn
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We didn’t like being asked to do something we did’t want to do!
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What works is being challenge at our level. Engagement is the key to that!
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What happens when we go to school? Many times we need to passively listen to the teacher.
People rarely succeed unless they are having fun in what they are doing.Dale Carnegie
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Of course there are changes as we grow up! We need to deal with them as well.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavour he does not like.Napoleon Hill
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Some are to do with habits of thought and the emotions we generate.
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One answer in classes is to make sure students are being involved and engrossed in what they do.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.Denis Waitley
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We can show them that languages is all about creating a lot from a little?
onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightnine ten
eleventwelvethirteenfourteenfifteensixteenseventeeneighteennineteentwenty
twenty onetwenty twotwenty threetwenty fourtwenty fivetwenty sixtwenty seventwenty eighttwenty ninethirty
onetwothreefourfivesixseveneightnine teneleventwelvethirteenfiftwenty
How many words do we have to learn to be able to count to 999,999?
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Is all language learning be like this?
The greatest danger for most of us lies in not setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.Michelangelo
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"Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.
But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever." North American Indian saying
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The Story of Professor Agassiz and the Fishis a great story that tells us many things about what teachers need to do
AND about what learners need to do!
We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.John Holt.
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Discover from this table:- how many ways we can say “a”- When do the sounds change- Which other letters cause it to change?- In what spelling environments does it change?- Etc
Enjoy the challenge!
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