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Category Archives: Needs analysis
Needs analysis and instant personalised practice (TEFLtastic Classics Part 50)
Back when I was studying to teach English for Business for the first time, what I most appreciated and gained from were lessons on doing needs analysis and on planning first lessons that cover things that most students are likely … Continue reading
Extreme needs-based teaching!
I’ve been doing this for a while in one-to-one classes, but took me a while to come up with a worksheet for group classes to elicit and practise what students need in the very first lesson, even when those needs … Continue reading
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Articles and worksheets on needs analysis
I was working on a more general list of links on first lessons, but as I now have 21 links on the page on needs analysis (another chosen specialist subject, like numbers below) I think this will do for now… … Continue reading
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What we really should ask in level checks and needs analysis
What is your motivation for studying English? • too much free time • to date or marry a foreigner • to date fellow students • to save money on air conditioning/ heating • to get revenge on your boss by … Continue reading
Needs analysis TEFLtastic style(s)
Updated full list of my worksheets and articles on the topic here: https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/business-esp/needs/
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When needs analysis goes wrong
I don’t mean when they find nothing to say about their needs (I’ve got it set up so that it’s useful as a language task even when it is not as a needs analysis). What I’m talking about here is … Continue reading
New TEFLtastic worksheets etc January 2010
Guess the job 20 questions and personalisation Arrangements, plans and predictions speaking tasks Future clauses chain story
Posted in Future tenses, Going to for future plans, Going to/ will, Grammar games, Materials, Needs analysis, TEFL, TEFL games, tense review, Vocabulary, Will for predictions, Writing
Tagged GTKY
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New TEFL articles October 2008
I have to fly away from my Yahoo BB internet connection now, and I may be some time. So while I am gone from cyberspace, you all have a chance to read the over 200 articles I’ve written elsewhere- starting … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative teaching techniques, Business English and ESP, Classroom dynamics, Classroom management, Cultural differences/ cultural training, ELT publishing, Error correction, getting into ELT publishing, Grammar, Needs analysis, Photocopiable worksheets, Pre-experience learners, Problem students, Skills, Speaking, Teaching English Abroad, Teaching English in Finland, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching shy students, TEFL, TEFL career planning
Tagged Creativity
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New TEFL articles etc August 08
It was a quiet month (if you don’t count the sound of the cicadas), but that will just give you the chance to read all of them for once, starting with a new series of “well balanced…” articles on Usingenglish.com: … Continue reading
Posted in Business English and ESP, CELTA, ELT publishing, ELTgames.com, English for Academic Purposes, Error correction, Error correction games, links, Materials, Needs analysis, Self-study materials, TEFL, TEFL career planning, TEFL certificate, TEFL games, TEFL heroes- Jon Marks, Using L1 in class, Usingenglish
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Exploding baths and English teaching
Don’t know if the exploding posh hot springs resort in Shibuya (of 8 directions at once crossing and Lost in Translation karaoke fame) made the news abroad. It was another quiet news day in Japan (apparently news of Africa cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged Motivation
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