5th July, 2015
English for adults
Our first blog.
This is so exciting.
This week we are getting ready for the biggest English Teacher's Conference in Israel 'ETAI'. We will be giving a workshop on how to use our 'advanced conversation' resource book. We will give a short introduction about 'Teaching Gems', show how to use one of our lessons interacting with the teachers. After that we will demonstrate a 'Left Over' and finally play a fun game to review 'Small Talk'.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Debz and Shaz.
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Our 3rd advanced level workshop held in May 2015.
6th July, 2015
Our 5th Advanced Level Workshop
The workshop will take place in Jerusalem on 18th August, 2015 from 09:15-12:30.
For more details and registration please contact Debz or Shaz.
11th July, 2015
Etai Conference 2015
We had a great time at the ETAI (English Teachers' Assossiation of Isreal) Conference.
We met some very interesting people and went to a couple of workshops on different teaching subjects.
We had our 'Advanced Conversation' resource book on sale and our three new games. The games were a hit and we are delighted that the teachers liked them.
We gave a 90 minute workshop on how to use the 'advanced conversation' resource book and finished off with a 'Scrambled Conversation Starters Word Game'.
Thank you to everyone that came to the workshop and bought our book and games.
Enjoy using them!
The games are for adults and for children from the age of 13/14 and/or English Speakers.
1. A Tenses Bingo Game that reviews the tenses - Present Simple/Progressive, Future and Past Simple/Progressive.
2. A Happy Families to review and reinforce the question HOW for example: How long...? How many..? How often...? How much...? How & adjective.
3. A Conversation Starters Scrambled Words Game to promote small talk. There are 18 subjects to talk about.
Divide the class into groups of four or five students. Give each group a set of word cards which they spread face up in front of them. Tell the students that all the words are 'small talk' words.
Write the first scrambled word on the board, for example: 'doof'. Each group looks at its cards. The first group to find the word 'food' picks it up, names it and receives a point. Continue with the next word, etc. The winning group is the one that receives the most points.
After all the words have been found each student has a minute to talk about one of the words. We suggest using different ideas; this will help students focus on a variety of ways to express themselves.
8th July, 2015
3 NEW GAMES!
1st December, 2015
The New Year
Lots of gems for the new year.
Our beginners book will be ready for the new year, it will include 30 lessons, fun games and left overs.
Our intermediate book will be ready by April.
We will holding Workshops for each level all over Israel.
For more information keep posted!
Happy Hanukah and Merry Christmas
Shaz and Debz
24th May, 2016
Teaching Beginner Level Workshop
Having fun and learning useful teaching tips using our Teaching Gems resource book for teaching adult conversation to beginners.
We covered several lessons from the book, played a game or two and did some 'leftovers'.
Shaz and Debz
13th March, 2016
Beginner Games
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The games are for adults and for children from the age of 10.
1. A Grammar Bingo Game that reviews the grammar points taught in the Beginner Book. For example: a/an/some - Present Simple or Present Progressive - WH questions and answers.
2. A Memory Game based on vocabulary at a beginner's level.
The pairs are made up of a category and an object from that category. For example: number/three, clothes/shirt and body part/knee, etc.
3. SNAP - a vocabulary based game.
The students have to say 'snap' when they put down two cards from the same category.
For example: coffee/tea/juice/water. Any two from these cards are from the 'drinks' category.
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Enjoy playing and teaching through our games!
Shaz and Debz
1st June, 2016
See our first newsletter and find out about teaching through suggestopedia and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
1st June, 2016
See our first newsletter and find out about teaching through suggestopedia and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
31st May, 2016
Our 1st 'Pool of Ideas'
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This meeting will take place in Ra'anana on 7th June, 2016 from 10:00-12:15.
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For more details and registration please contact Debz or Shaz.
8th June, 2016
Our 2nd 'Pool of Ideas'
Summertime is nearly here!
Time to open our pool...
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Don’t you wish you could generate new ideas for your teaching in a relaxed motivating atmosphere?
The meeting will take place in Ra'anana on 21st June, 2016 from 19.30 - 22.00.
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For more details and registration please contact Debz or Shaz.
1st July, 2016
See our second newsletter and find out about teaching through VAK and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
1st August, 2016
See our third newsletter and find out about 'Part of planning a class is also planning the room', and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
11th July, 2015
Etai Conference 2015
We had a great time at the ETAI (English Teachers' Assossiation of Isreal) Conference.
We met some very interesting people and went to a couple of workshops on different teaching subjects.
We had our 'Advanced Conversation' resource book on sale and our three new games. The games were a hit and we are delighted that the teachers liked them.
We gave a 90 minute workshop on how to use the 'advanced conversation' resource book and finished off with a 'Scrambled Conversation Starters Word Game'.
Thank you to everyone that came to the workshop and bought our book and games.
Enjoy using them!
4th July, 2016
Etai Conference 2016
We had a great time at the ETAI (English Teachers' Assossiation of Isreal) Conference.
We met some very interesting people and went to a couple of workshops on different teaching subjects.
We gave our workshop using our 'Beginner and Advanced Conversation' resource books. The books were on sale as well as our 3 beginner games and 3 advanced games. The games were a hit and we are delighted that the teachers liked them.
Our workshop was based on:
ENGAGE - ENHANCE - ENERGIZE
We engaged people in conversation about STRESS!
We enhanced their basic grammar.
We energized them with a fun vocabulary game.
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We would like to thank everyone that came to the workshop and bought our books and games.
Enjoy using them!
1st September, 2016
See our fourth newsletter and find out about 'Brain Gym' exercises used in the class, and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
1st October, 2016
See our fifth newsletter and find out how games are used in the class, and our upcoming events.
Shaz and Debz
24th May, 2016
Teaching Beginner Level Workshop
Having fun and learning useful teaching tips using our Teaching Gems resource book for teaching adult conversation to beginners.
We covered several lessons from the book, played a game or two and did some 'leftovers'.
Shaz and Debz
1st October, 2016
Teaching Advanced Level Workshop
Having fun and learning useful teaching tips using our Teaching Gems resource book for teaching adult conversation to beginners.
We covered several lessons from the book, played a game or two and did some 'leftovers'.
Shaz and Debz
1st November, 2016
See our sixth newsletter and find out about some advantages of giving homework to adults.
Shaz and Debz
1st December, 2016
See our seventh newsletter and read about how to choose a topic of conversation for the students.
These are the dates for our December workshops:
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15th December, 2016 - Intermediate Workshop
Ra'anana- 19:30 - 22:30
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19th December, 2016 - Intermediate Workshop
Ra'anana- 9:30- 12:30
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Shaz and Debz
6th December, 2016
Our 1st Intermediate Level Workshops
The workshops will take place in Ra'anana, please see flyer.
For more details and registration please contact Debz or Shaz.
What can I do?
When students ask, "What can I do to improve my speaking skills?"
Enthusiasm in the classroom
How do you deal with it?
The benefits of connecting a seasonal topic or events to your lesson.
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Why is this invariably a very successful lesson?
15th March, 2017
Teaching Gems is holding a joint event with Wiz Kids.
For all the information see the flyer.
We look forward to seeing you all next Monday evening.
21st March, 2017
Teaching Gems held a joint event with Wiz Kids.
We would like to thank Wiz Kids for an excellent evening. We look forward to more joint events in the future.
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We would like to thank all the participants that joined us for the evening. We thoroughly enjoyed it and hope you did too.
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1st April, 2017
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More ideas on how to get ESL adult students to speak in the classroom
​For many ESL adult students, speaking out loud is difficult and challenging for them.
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1st July, 2017
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How do you get ideas when you've got no ideas?
Are you ever at a loss for ideas? Do you ever feel that you absolutely have no ideas?
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1st August, 2017
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Ice Breakers…
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In a first lesson some of your students may know each other, but sometimes they don’t.
In either case, students are often inhibited to talk or communicate with others and ‘ice breakers’ are an excellent way to start the lesson.
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1st October, 2017
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Over the last couple of months we have been writing our Grammar Supplement which accompanies our Intermediate Resource Book.
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Our book covers this by giving students a chance to drill and also talk using the different grammatical subjects.
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10th October, 2017
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We are coming up North!!!
Our next workshops will be held on Kibbutz Hasolelim near Ramat Yishai, Shfaram and Tivon (close to Hamovil junction).
For all teachers teaching adult conversation classes - some teachers had a taste of our workshop at the recent ETAI conference.
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