by Fatime Losonci | general, IELTS listening sub-skills, IELTS reading sub-skills, IELTS speaking sub-skills, IELTS writing sub-skills
Thinking and writing are really connected for me. And perhaps you’ve noticed that I like to think (=write…) about • IELTS Listening SUB-SKILLS • IELTS Reading SUB-SKILLS • IELTS Writing SUB-SKILLS • IELTS Speaking SUB-SKILL –obviously… 😀 as...
by Fatime Losonci | CPD, general
I talk a lot about how to teach IELTS. Now here’s a chat about how NOT to do it as well, to avoid ‘demoralizing’ (our learners) and ‘fossilizing’ (their typical mistakes) … Check it out! What’s ONE of your current IELTS...
by Fatime Losonci | general
I’m looking for contributors to my blog! Are you an English teacher who’s also passionate about teaching SKILLs well? Do you feel you have ‘stuff to stay’ about how skills (/a particular skill or sub-skills) could be taught? Are you interested...
by Fatime Losonci | feedback, general
THANK YOU if you signed up to be a reviewer of one of my IELTS teacher training courses, • How to Teach IELTS Listening • How to Teach IELTS Reading • How to Teach IELTS Writing • How to Teach IELTS Speaking and sent me your reflections...
by Fatime Losonci | CPD, general, IELTS listening sub-skills, IELTS reading sub-skills, IELTS speaking sub-skills, IELTS writing sub-skills
Grammar is not a SKILL! Chat GPT doesn’t seem to know this (yet), but if you teach #IELTS, I hope you do! And teaching skills is more challenging than grammar or vocabulary… Here is why: — — Hi. I’m Fatime. I’m an IELTS Teacher...
by Fatime Losonci | CPD, general, IELTS listening sub-skills, IELTS reading sub-skills, IELTS speaking sub-skills, IELTS writing sub-skills, lesson planning
Here is my talk with @Billie Jago of @ELTcpd on “How to Teach Skills for IELTS”. Have you watched it yet? What was YOUR biggest takeaway? — — Hi. I’m Fatime. I’m an IELTS Teacher Trainer, helping CELTA-qualified...
by Fatime Losonci | general
“…I prefer teaching reports, because it was a challenge for me to get my head around when I started teaching them (I’d never had to report on a chart or diagram before), I had to learn the tricks from scratch myself, so passing on that learning is...
by Fatime Losonci | general, lesson planning
When I talk to IELTS teachers, sometimes they wonder ‘out loud’ whether focusing on any ONE sub-skill at a time is ‘artificial’… Because yes, in real life PROFICIENT USERS of a language do rely on a bunch of these MICRO STRATEGIES at a...
