Maine Workshop In October

Below is the flyer information from Skip providing the information about my upcoming visit to Maine. And don’t forget that Susan Gross will be in Japan on the 18th and 19th of this month: The World Language Department at Poland Regional High School will host Ben Slavic, author of TPRS in a Year! and PQA in a […]

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Nathan Black

There is currently a great Big Picture presentation on diving that syncs great with a lot of year-beginning vocabulary.  It’s called “Diving In” and can be found at: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/09/diving_in.html In Circling with Balls,  we are using the verb “jump” an awful lot, and this picture set takes that and drills it wonderfully.  I used the terms

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Susan Gross

Susan Gross is coming to Japan for the first time, giving a three day workshop September, 18-19th and 20th, 2010. If you are in Japan or nearby, don’t miss this rare chance for TPRS training. The workshop will benefit teachers who teach any language and any level. For more information and to register contact Martha

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It's All Gravy

The Circling with Balls activity (this site/resources/workshop handouts), is an excellent way to begin the year in first year classes because it addresses both the personalization piece and the establishment of the rules piece (see this site/posters for the most current version of the rules that I have developed over the years). By getting to know the

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Heather Frackiewicz

Heather has very kindly clarified some things about ways to use this site: Bonjour to all of Ben’s readers! I recently fixed an issue with the RSS feed from the blog – if you tried to use it, it would not download the posts. As I have an iPad and am using the Blogshelf app

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Rick Winterstein

[Ed. note: I’ve been up in the mountains if you’re wondering why it’s been quiet here lately. Things will slowly crank up as we get back into August, when we can talk about ways to reach the kids with personalized comprehensible input in those first all-important weeks of the year. The week of July 26

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Jennifer

Jennfer sent me this interesting email: Ben, I have always been a 4%er, and now I may know why. I’m wondering how this can impact my classroom… I picked up my Russian copy of Bednaya Anya (Poor Ana) and have been happily reading through it as my bedtime reading. As such, I have been re-reading

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