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New Reader

Greg just published a new FCR reader on Teachers Pay Teachers: Las aventuras de Nancy y Rodolfo https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Las-aventuras-de-Nancy-y-Rodolfo-FVR-SSR-e-book-Descubre-3-Chapter-1-3780022 For more products: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Ci-Guy

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No Planning

If they tripled my salary and begged I might consider doing more planning. I may want to plan a little when doing a Movie Talk or something, but not with one of the Invisibles stories. When we work with emergent targets, we are freer to follow a story line that is much more interesting to

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April/May Bailout

Sometimes we just need to get to the end of the year. There is a “Bail Out Moves” category but some of those posts are about TPRS and dated so they all may not be relevant to what we are doing now. But here is one idea that is a good way to eat up

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Sick Can

I posted this here in 2008, and am reproducing it here, with a few changes, as it fits in with one of the most important threads here about keeping in emotional and mental balance in the hard work that we do: If students really don’t care then go the book.  But, as it was with me anyway, their not

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Motivation

Jonathan shares: Ben- Some may have already seen this, but it seems to give voice to some of the spirit of the discussion on this blog here. Video Clip from Steve Kaufmann of “Lingq” What do you all think? Sounds like his top value on “what makes a good language teacher” is overwhelmingly their ability

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Kentucky

Tina and I will be in Louisville, KY this weekend. PLC members can attend for free so if you are in the area come by: Louisville Collegiate School 2427 Glenmary Ave. Louisville, KY 40204 I’m not sure about the starting time so call 303-995-0526 or email benslavic@yahoo.com for those details. I think it’s 9:00 –

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