My students so far today

Today one of my students said, just like many other times before "this doesn't have sense" - How can I get them to memorise the equivalent phrase in English?  "make sense" - this doesn't make sense. Repeat, repeat repeat but what if they just don't bother?

Another student online: when asked how are you?  he says "I am blessed and you"  no punctuation marks, by the way. Apparently he's heard it many times. videos about how to answer the question in what I called "international English" instead of this  "culturally charged" reply, influenced by their country socialising questions, where religion plays a bigger role than in our more secular Europe.
An near-B1 who wants to be C1 in about 6 weeks.

ted talks about english

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/aug/13/behemoth-bully-thief-how-the-english-language-is-taking-over-the-planet-podcast  

patricia ryan : don't insist on english https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_ryan_ideas_in_all_languages_not_just_english#t-98197 

the worlds english mania

https://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania 

Judy thomson - the secrets...

[11:57] Cristina Bustos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgd9G1oBsUI&ab_channel=ThompsonLanguageCenter spaghetti

patricia khul the linguistic genious of babies

https://language101.com/biology-of-language-learning/
Great 5 first minutes - ability to learn sounds, acquire lg as an adult,  ages, etc.

the birth of a word

https://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti_gFEe1XNY  
how to talk like a native speaker, marc green   cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge7c7otG2mk
learn a language? speak it as if you're playing a video game marianna pascal  cool. 
 

Reported Speech

REPORTED SPEECH WEBSITES and resources

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech.html

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/reportedspeech.html

engvid

intermediate  http://www.engvid.com/english-grammar-reported-speech/

http://www.engvid.com/say-tell-reported-speech/  say and tell

advanced  http://www.engvid.com/grammar-reported-speech-indirect-speech/

slideshares (many)

http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/report.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/reported.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/tm-reported1.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/lm-reported.html

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech

http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/reported_speech.htm

http://www.eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/REPORTSP/Rs1.htm

     games online (search)

grammar spectrum:  pre intermediate and intermedia

new english files
english grammar in use
how english works
longman grammar

domino (reward)

in company...

etc.

grammar grammar grammar

Three out three people i have asked, so far, agree on what helped them most in their learning in class was that they learn best when doing grammar classes dealing with one grammar area: ie present perfect and past simple. Pure grammar, comparing, talking, correcting, translating, contrasting... They need to understand and contrast. They want to understand the rules. This goes a bit against the sort of teaching some methods encourage: eliciting, integrating grammar in a given situation, etc. According to their feedback, I reckon they think they will be able to integrate this whereever it is needed if they know how to produce the sentece, if they know the equivalent: in Spanish we say xxx whereas in english to communicate this idea we say yyy or xxx. It's important to know when translating word by word can be done and when can not.