“It is amazing how easy it is to influence people’s behavior using these friendship tools [the eyebrow flash, the authentic smile and the head tilt]. Alone or in combination, they allow you to make people feel better about themselves and, in turn, encourage them to make you feel better [...]
These are some of the questions that students said they would like to ask one another using the present perfect. It is interesting that the hot items always cluster around the same themes. Questions about four topics are always winners, and they showed up here. These Top Tier Topics [...]
The Special Person questions are not regulated to lower level classes. They can be adapted to any level. And if you want to target a specific verb form with Special Person questions, you can. With practice you can make natural sounding questions and conversations that lean towards almost any [...]
Yesterday the students in my 7th hour Spanish I class asked if they could interview the student teacher. This was compelling stuff for them. The energy and interest were there and the questions kept coming, so the interview continued for the entire class period. I was very proud of [...]
The "Special Person" activity is a way to engage students and really connect with them with real language. The questions are on the website in Spanish and French, and now they are available in Japanese.Thanks to Betsy Paskvan of Anchorage, Alaska for the translation! SPECIAL PERSON QUESTIONS IN JAPANESE
Another question about preteaching vocabulary with the Persona Especial interviews. Steve writes: I heard/saw nearly all of your webinar. I loved the stuff about personalization. Personalization is the best way to get truly compelling CI and your ideas look like the best way of personalizing I have ever seen. Question: [...]