Update

I just want to say how grateful I am for you all. We are a good group, there’s no denying it. I have just turned down visits to England, Seattle, and UC Boulder precisely bc the people I would be presenting to are not you. Most people in formal presentations want to take pieces of the […]

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jGR Has Fangs

For the past weeks I have been using and continuing to see greater and greater value in “the JGR”. I knew it had power when this week Annick Chen – a truly gifted CCI Mandarin teacher – came into my room (I had asked her to observe me in a reading class to clarify a few

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Past vs. Present

The topic below is a good one to revisit from time to time – use of tenses. Kelly sent in this question for consideration by the group: Hi, Ben, I am really struggling with asking the stories in the past tense. It just feels so unnatural to me. When I have actors and the story is

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Response to Magic Bean

Corinne in CA sent this: Ben, In response to your Magic Bean post, I’ve allocated some jobs this semester. The two French combined level 2&3 sections enjoy checking that they can keep in L2 as long as each other, so that timer is popular. My “barometers” (I know we don’t call them that ) enjoy

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