Tři způsoby, jak použít Quizlet Multiple Choice ve výuce

V tomto článku bych vám ráda ukázala několik způsobů, jak využít funkci Multiple choice programu Quizlet v placené verzi Teacher. Jedná se o možnost přidat v rámci jedné kartičky k jednomu termínu až čtyři definice. Správná definice se zapíše jako první, další definice jsou nesprávné. Tyto čtyři definice se vám zobrazí, pokud vyberete metodu Learn nebo Test. Kromě evidentního …

Return to Simplicity in the Language Classroom

I have recently attended two local online events, namely the conference Učíme jazyky online and an event organised by the Digitální lektoři duo. Both events were very useful, enlightening and actually served as a wake-up call for me. I had recently been through a professionally strenuous time, teaching a Business English course and a Czech-for-foreigners …

Hrst užitečných online cvičení na češtinu

V současné době se mi trochu proměnila skladba studentů, protože teď neučím velké kurzy ke zkouškám a studentů na češtinu mám pár a všechny online. Je to vítaná příležitost k experimentům, které mě vždycky bavily, a navíc zjišťuju, že v online prostředí musím předělávat všechny svoje aktivity do jiné podoby – to je samozřejmě zábava, ale taky to …

Ten Ways of Using Pictures in the Digital Classroom – Focus on Form

This article is written both for my colleagues that teach EFL and CzFL. It is in English, with some occasional explanations/examples in Czech. The underlying principles should be the same for each of the languages. Over the years, some of my most faithful students, both for EFL and CzFL have reached an upper-intermediate level, breaking …

Writing Tasks – TBLT and Others

Recently I have been trying to encourage my (mostly but not solely Czech) students to write more and in this post I’d like to describe some of the practices we have been doing. I only just now realised that distance learning naturally lends itself to TBLT writing, as learners, deprived of the opportunity to speak …

Cramming Before the Czech Exam

The B1 exam for the students at our department will be held this week. In the past two weeks I have been streamlining my procedures and trying to fit in as much exam prep as possible. I have namely: Turned on the online classroom countdown timer for reading and grammar exercises Prepared extra reading and …

FIVE Mistakes Foreign People Make when Learning Czech

This post was prompted in a discussion thread on Czechlist, our Facebook group for language professionals, following a post entitled Ten More English Mistakes Czech People Make by my fellow blogger Tom Czaban. Somehow it was agreed by the group that in order to tilt the balance, a post should be written for the adventurous …

Another Handful of Handy Handout Tips

I’ve recently started using some cool hand-out strategies that I’d like to share with my regular readers. As you know I wrote another post on worksheets which was fairly popular and I guess everyone likes useful tips so here’s a quick post. How to save paper I am at a risk of making a fool …

What’s the Question?

Can you hear the silence? Do your learners ask you questions in class when they want to know something? They do, really? Until recently I thought mine certainly did. But last week a student confessed after class, in Czech, that at the start of the lesson she’d wanted to ask me about the health of …

A Listicle!

I learnt two words from Matthew Noble: the word “listicle”, which had been completely new to me, and “life circumstances”, which is not new but is just the expression I needed. It’s Saturday evening, our place is quiet and I am back to blogging while giving up on watching a film with the rest of …