CLAIRE MARIA FORD

January 28, 2019

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 […]
January 17, 2019

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 […]