А еще я купила такую штуку, давно присматривалась. Надо дёргаться 😂 так что, дети мои, держитесь...

I shall continue my little challenge collage for burnout resistence - photos of what I liked last week.

1. White nights in Saint-Pete
2. A quiant little school in an old mansion
3. A room for introverts
4. Watching my intern teach instead of me and do a great job!

Продолжаю свой мини челлендж - делать фото того, что мне нравится, для борьбы с выгоранием.

1. Белые ночи
2. Причудливая маленькая школа в особняке
3. Интровертошная
4. Наблюдать как моя прекрасная интерн отлично ведёт урок (вместо меня) 😂

#random_musings #burnout_resistance #work #interns

Hello, amazing new people!

I am Yulia, and this is my blog about random stuff, no false advertising here.

I talk about #methodology in general, different tricks, teaching teens, #CPD, conferences (#conference) and whatnot (#random_musings) . I love psychology and fight burnout with all my considerable might (#burnout_resistance). Here you also might stumble upon some ready-made materials (#materials), but it’s not the purpose of my blog. The first idea for my blog was just for word vomit (#random_musings and #rants) actually.

Why should you listen to me, you might ask?

Well, first of all, I am very proud to call myself relatively clever. My certifications might help me prove that claim as us, teachers, often consider them our greatest accomplishments. I am with you here, guys.

So here is my list: TKT (3 modules), CAE (pass A), CELTA (pass A), IH YLT (International House – Young Learners and Teenagers Teaching Certificate), CPE (Pass A) and lots of other Russian certificates (here is a post about it https://t.iss.one/random_musing_s/145)

Care to share what your accomplishments are? Let’s wow each other.

#accomplishment #CPD #start #English

Кому не хочется читать на английском, под катом – на русском. Вот так я вас всех люблю 💗

Привет, прекрасные люди!

Я – Юля. И это мой блог о всякой всячине. Никакого миснейминга.

Я тут размышляю о методике, о разных штучках, преподавании подросткам, самообразованию и всякой ерунде (хотя это не ерунда, конечно #random_musings). Обожаю психологию и воюю с выгоранием (#burnout_resistance). Так же иногда всплывают материалы для работы, но это – не цель блога. Я вообще ничего (пока) не продаю. Основная идея – болтология (#random_musings и #rants).

А зачем вообще меня слушать-то?

Сейчас расскажу. Ну, вообще-то я относительно неглупый человек). Возможно, сертификаты помогут мне это подтвердить. Многие из нас, преподавателей английского, считают их нашими медалями. Я с вами, ребята.

Так что вот мой список: TKT (3 модуля), CAE (pass A), CELTA (pass A), IH YLT (International House – Young Learners and Teenagers Teaching Certificate), CPE (Pass A) и куча сертификатов наших, родных, русских (можно почитать тут https://t.iss.one/random_musing_s/145 и по тегу #CPD).

А у вас как с достижениями? Поделитесь, мы вместе порадуемся.

#accomplishment #CPD #start #Russian

If you are not willing to answer here, here is a link to a word cloud. Let's make our definition of a good teacher together.

Some questions to help you:

What was/is your favourite teacher like?
What kind of people do you look up to?
What do you envision yourself as a teacher when you will have reached all your CPD goals?
https://ahaslides.com/ZCC0B

If we make one, we could see how we match with our students 😊

With this collage I am summoning all the Harry Potter nerds! Wake up from your long slumber, comrades!

So I've got a little hair-brained idea to analyse the lessons in Harry Potter movies and evaluate them. I have not the foggiest as to how to teach Transfiguration (alas, I am not a witch... well, debatable), so I will be judging the lesson as if these amazing characters are teaching English.

What do you think? Should I go for it?

Ok, this part is not up for debate, I am doing it either way. But you can help me if you wish...

#methodology #funsies

If you want to watch it in better quality, I'll be posting a link in the comments as soon as the video uploads to my Yandex drive.

#methodology #funsies #harrypotter

❓❓❓ What are questions? You know what questions are, don’t you? I wonder if you also know all the ways of practicing them in fun ways... ❓❓❓

Well, even if you know all of them, I am still going to remind you about some.

⭐️ Interview Level 1️⃣

Prepare a list of questions and have the students answer them in pairs. Make some simple yet relevant questions for lower level students. Or some strange and interesting questions for higher level students. Or both. Make sure they keep track of their partner’s answers to report back to you/class later.

⭐️ Interview Level 2️⃣ (based on facts)

Say, your topic is inventions. Give your students some information about inventions, have them read it. Then give them time to prepare an interview role-play with one student being an inventor, the other – a journalist. Don’t forget to tell them what kinds of questions they’ve got to use, how many from each person and, of course, how long the dialogue should be.
Make sure to let them know they can interview anybody in the story, even a ghost or an animal (for instance, my students interviewed a stolen chick – if you want to know the full story, let me know).

⭐️ Interview Level 3️⃣ (based on imagination)

Have the students invent a topic. You could use some flash-cards (I use a game called Story inherited from a lovely colleague – hey, Yulia!) to give them some ideas. Follow the same procedure as above.
You might wonder why it is level 3. Well, it’s a tad bit simpler for you, but might be a lot more difficult for them as they need to make the story from scratch.

⭐️ Interview Level 4️⃣ (based on research)

Give your students a whole list of questions that might fit some kind of vocation. Have them transform the questions into the type or types you wish them to practice. Then make them do research. It’s a whole project!
After that, your students can interview a «real» person, as well as learn something new. Maybe even get inspired by someone. Win-win all around.

I’ve done all of the above mentioned activities with my B2 level students. I can rest assured that now they can use indirect and tag questions quite well.

In the comments you will find some beautiful (I am not humble in the least) question sets for the last activity. Enjoy!

If you want to find out more details about how to organize the Level 4 interview, react with some kind of emoji to this post.

Thanks for reading!

#methodology #activities_ideas #speaking #grammar #materials

The photos from Trendy St.Pete are here!

Can you imagine I was worried I wouldn’t have any? The thing is I didn’t even notice the photographer… I wish I could say that the reason for my absent-mindedness was that I was extremely focused on my talk, but… mostly I was too terrified to pay attention to the nice lady taking pictures.

If you are interested in my experience as a speaker, you can find my insights using #conference

#methodology #conference #workshop

Which meme cat are you today?

I guess I am 5 - hurtling towards the weekend at top speeds

Have you got any exciting plans? Care to share?

#meme #funsies