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...
by Fatime Losonci | general
We had a chat about the importance of TEACHING IELTS (as opposed to just TESTING it) with Mohammad Nabil today. Among many other points I mentioned that if we TEST (‘and scold’) our students instead of TEACHING, i.e. • choosing concrete ‘micro’ processes...
by Fatime Losonci | general
Watch this space! 😉
by Fatime Losonci | general
As some of you might know, my IELTS teacher training course, How to Teach IELTS -The Ultimate IELTS Teacher Training Bootcamp– is becoming MODULAR and SELF-STUDY in January. I’m looking for a few more REVIEWERS to do a module FREE, in exchange for...
by Fatime Losonci | general
After being completely locked down in one place (a nice place, Cancun, but still…) during the pandemic, this year I’ve had to move around… TOO MUCH. Or so it feels… The last time I travelled was last week, this time from Miami to Merida, Mx,...