Artículos escritos por profesores particulares de Inglés nativos

Tusclases

¿Cómo se dice "¿Me estás tomando el pelo?" en inglés?

¿Has visto la foto que acompaña a este artículo? ¿Te puedes creer que alguien haya sido capaz de hacer un dibujo de su gato perdido y pegarlo en un árbol con la esperanza de que la gente del barrio lo reconociera  y le avisaran? ¿O será so...

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Sophie

Need help with British dialects for watching TV series?

Many of you watch TV series in the English language, which is a great and fun way to improve your listening. That said, several of my students have commented that some of the British dialects, particular forms of language pertaining to different reg...

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Tusclases

How to teach Marx’s Theory of Communism with Sweets!

Is it possible to teach 19th century theories using sweets in a secondary school classroom? I have found a new way of teaching abstract concepts like  “private ownership of industry,” “classless society,” and “economic competition” in a way tha...

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Tusclases

Stop Grading Students - It Tells Them Nothing

Why grade? The goal of grading students is to establish their level of competency in a subject - isn’t it? Or is to measure their progress when compared with the results of a previous test? Or is it to measure the competency of the teacher? Or is it...

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Tusclases

Learn a language SMARTER using the 80/20 principle.

Can you learn a language in 3 months? What if I told you, YES.  The trick is very simple - SPECIFIC LEARNING.  If I gave you 3 months to learn english with an english language book do you think you could do it? I doubt it. There is to...

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Sophie

Who's hungry? : Food idioms you'll love in English

Ever met anyone who's all gong and no dinner? This is a Northern English phrase meaning all talk and no action. It refers to the practice of banging a small gong to summon the family to dinner and reflects the disappointment felt when...

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Michael

The Fun Method: Gamifying Learning! It is obvious that students want to learn, and teachers wish to

When we decide to learn another language, a lot of old thinking about the learning process comes up for us. We remember the long, slow, sleepy days of dull classrooms, and the awful expectation that we must "learn something" (though what we were sup...

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Blanca

What is the ''Mindfulness''? Focus your brain in the present moment.

  As a teacher I am always searching for new ways or methods, in order to improve my classes and help my students. This days I have heard a lot about the ''Mindfulness'', a new innovative way of focusing. Moment-by-moment awarenessof thoughts,...

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Sophie

King Arthur and the Four Conditionals explained

As well as talking about the here and now, it's useful to be able to discuss future outcomes and to speak hypothetically in English. To do this, we need to look at the 4 conditionals, to which I've decided to give an Arthurian theme, since the King...

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Sophie

Am I going on a trip, travel, tour, voyage or journey? Holiday or holidays?

With the Easter break just around the corner (and a 4-day weekend if you live in Spain!) you might need to know the difference between these words; especially if you're planning to go further afield. We'll look at each of them one-by-one. The first...

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Gisela

If Valentine´s about love...guess what? I love teaching :)

Well....today is Valentine´s day and I have been given a task....to write about the time I fell in love with English...and I must confess that it is hard to know exactly when because I started studying English when I was like 8 :) But honestly...

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Adryana

My Love for Teaching started when I was really young...

Everything started when I was more or less 16. My mother used to tell me that I was gonna end up being a teacher, but at that time I wanted to be a scientist ,so I was just thinking about studying Chemistry, Biology and Physics . So at that time, wh...

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Igor Tavan

Intensive Musical Training Workshop - Taller de desarrollo de habilidades para instrumentistas...

Publicidad de la presentación del curso en el Conservatorio profesional de música de Valencia:El batería de Jazz Igor Tavan junto a colaboradores como el trombonista Toni Belenguer actual profesor del conservatorio superior de jazz de Valencia y del...

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Carlos

Technology production function, an introduction*

For Neoclassical economics a firm faces technological change in terms that certain combinations of inputs produce a given amount of output. Examples of technology are defined according to relationships (or combination) between inputs such as fi...

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