Dave Kees
Teach English In China

It's a new day with a new way in an old country.
Teaching English in China is exciting.
You never know what will happen next.
They never know what I will do next.

22 May 2009

Teaching IELTS writing - keeping it simple

One of the big problems with all of the IELTS writing books is that they use very complex high-level examples of writing to demonstrate how ...

15 May 2009

Understand oral English testing in schools better

1. According to research, it is too difficult for highly trained examiners to measure English proficiency spanning more than 9-10 levels. (C...

08 May 2009

Those #&!*% boring books!

One major problem teachers have brought up is that material is boring. Although it is quite easy to find that material is boring it actually...

03 May 2009

Grab your students with suspense!

A teacher asked for help, "A student has asked me to suggest TV shows that have easy-to-understand dialog. I'm afraid that I'm ...

24 April 2009

Literati and Scrabble

One of the most popular on-line games on Yahoo is Literati. It is just like Scrabble. I described this game to this list several months ago ...

17 April 2009

Scrabble and Liar Liar for vocabulary practice

SPELLING AND VOCABULARY REVIEW SCRABBLE: It's almost embarrassing to get paid money to play Scrabble but we're professionals and hav...

12 April 2009

High-speed correcting

If you find yourself with a large number of tests to correct and little time to do them you could make a cut-out template to help you. What ...

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