Yes, well done Kamal. It’s exactly that!

Indeed, the meeting last Sunday seemed to be a big success. I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to join you! Thank you for all of your feedback.
I tried doing the error correction with my daughter today. Sometimes just reading the sentence aloud, was enough for her to recognize the mistake eg He’s more tall than his brother (taller not more… Read more

For this task I taught “Be going to + base form for future plans.” I practiced it with my daughter. It was a good experience because it felt closer to a real class situation.

I started by writing the two model sentences and asking her if the sentences were talking about the past, present, or future. From there I elicited that it was about the… Read more

This activity seems to have been a great success. Just a couple of top up points
1) it’s not the end of the world if we occasionally just tell them the correct version instead of trying to get them to self correct or peer correct. Occasionally!
2) don’t feel like you have to know the “rules” – you just say “that’s for another lesson”

Thank you Emillie, it was a good group activity. Looking forward to the next one.

it was fun to do it together

I agree with your point here Kamal. Some errors are easier to correct than others, whereas other errors require different guidance in order to correct a student in a way that they will understand and remember.

I totally agree with you and the fact that we all learn from each other. I find group exercises like this one gives a different perspective on how to teach. How everyone’s personality, language, experiences come into play when teaching.
I really like the way you question student’s (clear and accessible) and how you change intonation when asking questions.

It was indeed not straight forward for some of the errors. But you seem to be good at eliciting and ccqing to help students understand their mistakes.

We noticed during the group call today that using hand gestures, such as swapping words, counting words on our fingers, and pointing to the error, was very useful for helping students notice their mistakes. We also found that giving students a few options can help guide them to the correct answer. For example, with prepositions we could ask: “I… Read more