Email Writing: Four Formulas That Actually Work (B1)
🎙 From the classroom: Over eighteen years in hospitality, I wrote hundreds of emails to VIP guests, suppliers, and managers. The best emails I ever received — and sent — all had one thing in…
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Numbers and Counting in the Kitchen (A1)
🎙 From the classroom: As a barista, I measured everything: 18 grams of coffee, 93 degrees, 28 seconds. Numbers are everywhere in cooking and every kitchen in the world. Using the kitchen as a context…
Daily Routines — What Do You Do Every Day? (A1/A2)
🎙 From the classroom: My morning in Réunion: wake up at 5am, drink coffee, look at the ocean, walk to the bakery. Every day, the same. Routines are where the Present Simple lives — and…
Body Parts in English — Head, Shoulders, Knees (A1)
🎙 From the classroom: Young learners learn body parts fastest when they move. Touch your head. Touch your shoulders. The old song works because kinesthetic memory is one of the strongest kinds of memory —…
Animals in English — A Safari Around La Réunion (A1)
🎙 From the classroom: Réunion Island has remarkable animals: giant petrel birds, green sea turtles, chameleons in the garden, sharks in the lagoon. My daughter learned 'turtle' before 'table'. Children learn the words that mean…
Colors in English — A Rainbow Activity for Young Learners (A1)
🎙 From the classroom: My daughter is learning to name the world. Every day it's a new colour, a new shape. 'Papa, blue! Blue water!' That moment — when a child connects a word to…
Writing: The Topic Sentence — One Idea, One Paragraph (B1/B2)
🎙 From the classroom: When I submitted my first written assignment on the teacher training course in France, my observer wrote three words: 'one idea only.' I had put four ideas in one paragraph. In…
Speaking: The Information Gap — A Task That Actually Works (A2/B1)
🎙 From the classroom: My most successful speaking task in Brittany was simple: I printed two versions of a map of Réunion. Student A had the beach. Student B had the volcano. Neither could see…
Listening: Before, While, After — The Three-Stage Framework (B1)
🎙 From the classroom: For years in hospitality, I had to listen to VIP guests and understand their needs instantly — often in a language I was still learning. The trick I discovered: prediction. If…
Reading: Gist vs Detail — Two Questions That Change Everything (B1)
🎙 From the classroom: Before I taught reading, I gave students a text and asked them to 'read and answer the questions'. They panicked, re-read every sentence, and ran out of time. One change fixed…