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The Power of a Pause
My eight o’clock one-on-one class was over. My nine o’clock hadn’t arrived yet. Friday morning. I was on pause; I waited. And fiddled on the computer, wondering what I could read to make the best of the time. I clicked on the double-arrow symbol at the top of my Internet browser screen. I thought I’d…
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Wishes, hopes and regrets (or: where’s the magic?)
This week, we were up to the unit on conditionals, and I noticed the caption Wish and Hope in the class activity book. My imagination went wild immediately; although, be honest: isn’t the topic of wishes and hopes enough to make any introverted, creative individual diverge into an ecstatic reverie? Wishes… hopes… palm trees swaying…
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Here’s to 2019!
In one word, how would you describe your Christmas vacation? I gave each of my adult business English students a pale blue hashtag-imprinted post-it. The students kind of gave me a funny look, then took out their pens and began to write. When they were done, I asked them to stick them on the conference…
Claire Maria Ford, Coach 