The lesson

🧭 The lesson takes place online, usually using Google Meet.

🧭 Each lesson lasts 2 hours, allowing time for the mind to warm up, focus, and cool down.

🧭 Each group includes a minimum of 5 students, encouraging peer-to-peer collaboration.

🧭 Lessons usually occur at the same time and location each week for consistency.

🧭 Netiquette Guidelines (for online classes):

- Please mute your microphone if there’s background noise.
- Please keep your webcam on so classmates can see you and feel your presence.

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Materials for the lessons

Materials are provided by the teacher and adapted to the students’ needs and preferences.

I use a combination of academic and non-academic resources, ensuring a broad and inclusive range of content.

Your personal interests will play an increasingly important role in the choice of materials as the group becomes more fluent and we move into the second term of the course.

Tapping into what interests you is essential for staying motivated and making real progress in using a new language.

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The "Method"

I draw on a mix of approaches to match the group’s dynamic and individual needs:

- Conversational and interactional (based on students' input)
- Task-Based Learning (TBL) activities, designed in-house
- Dogme: lessons using authentic, spontaneous materials
- Guided discovery and reversed class: you try first, then we explain and correct
- Etymological exploration (to deepen understanding of grammar or vocabulary roots)
- Callan’s Direct Method (helpful for students with dysgraphia)
- Total Physical Response (TPR) (great for beginners)
- Drama-based situational practice (to simulate real-life use)

The choice of the method also depends on wheather the class needs to build a sense of group or, some people are not exactly on a par language level with the others, or whether people look already tired at the start of the lesson.