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		<title>Word Games &amp; Tiny Twists #3: How do you spell&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite games which you can use at all levels and for a range of different purposes.  In a nutshell, you call out words and pupils spell them.  Sounds riveting, doesn’t it?  Well, there’s a bit more to it than that.  The basic questions which underpin any activity on this blog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=422&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word Games &amp; Tiny Twists #2: Word Stairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this game, all you need is a write-on whiteboard or visualiser.  Write up dashes across and down the board so that each successive line has an extra dash: Pupils suggest words to fill in the dashes, each word being one letter longer than the previous word.  For a beginner’s class, that can be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=403&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Word Games &amp; Tiny Twists #1: Word Chains</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new series of posts looking at ways of kicking off a lesson.  I’ve always preferred getting going as soon as the first pupil arrives.  It gives value to the start of the lesson rather than allowing a couple of minutes of down-time from which I’ve then got to drum up some pace.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=387&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carrot and Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I received this question on the blog from Giulia: Hi James, interesting views and good to have the updates. One of my teachers is having problems  with discipline and classroom management with some boys that tend to be distracted and distract  others around them. Could you give us any tips to overcome this in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=370&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Planning for spontaneity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this post, I want to look at how we can review the last term to see how pupils are using classroom language and how to use that to plan for this term and next September.  This is more about how pupils are interacting than how they are advancing in their content, or topic, language.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=324&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Term!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!  ¡Feliz Año Nuevo!  Bonne Année ! Thank you for joining me again in a new term.  When I started writing this blog in February 2011, it was mainly as a way of forcing myself to be specific in my thinking about what I am trying to do with my classes as well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=308&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sticky Grammar! #6: The Sentence-Construction Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The activity I’m going to describe in this post is the climax of a whole series of activities intended to teach pupils how to use direct object pronouns in the perfect tense in French with all the agreements. Throughout this whole process, my aim has been to help pupils use this particular bit of grammar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=295&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sticky Grammar! #5: Gender Walls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the end of article #4 in this series, I had presented the new vocabulary for Christmas presents and repeated it with the class using a song (12 Days of Christmas) and various activities to be done in pairs, but we hadn’t looked at any techniques for remembering the gender of the nouns, and as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=283&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sticky Grammar! #4: 20 clues, 20 questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, where were we?  In this series of posts we’re looking at ways to make grammar stick with classes of all abilities, especially the difficult bits that are often reserved for higher sets, by incorporating visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles into the way in which the language is presented and practised.  More briefly put, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=275&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sticky Grammar! #3: Walking Backwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Stubbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The example I set out in this series of posts comes from a Year 10 unit in January lasting four weeks on three lessons per week, in which pupils will, at the end of it, write a letter to a shop to complain about some faulty goods they were given as Christmas presents and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jamesstubbs.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19905738&amp;post=268&amp;subd=jamesstubbs&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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