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Teaching vocabulary can be a challenge for new teachers. Most are quick to assume that once a new word has been taught, it has also been learned and will be remembered.
Most new teachers don’t realize vocabulary needs to be continuously recycled. Students will likely forget vocabulary if they don’t encounter these words on [...]

I’ve really learned to hate saying good-bye over here, partly because I know I might never see these friends again and partly because life is so transient when you’re living abroad. It seems like I’m saying good-bye all the time
Nevertheless, we always try to make good-byes a happy occasion, and Citizen Cain is usually [...]

With all the hype surrounding the latest Harry Potter book and movie, my students seem to be talking about nothing else. I’ve used this conversation lesson over the past week to generate team spirit and conversation in English. My advanced junior high school students haven’t stopped talking about it!
Time: 2 hours. It [...]

Citizen Cain  is one of our favorite haunts in Taipei, and it also happens to be the official meeting spot for Reach To Teach teachers and special events.  It seemed only natural to have our farewell party there last night, where we were joined Dhruva, Anna, Avi, Alex, Mitch, Vicky, Jason and Jo and Ranjit for [...]

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.
—Unknown

This is what I have to look forward to everyday… We are two happy teachers in Taiwan.

These are for our friends at GRAM English School.  John and I are very fortunate to have been a part of the GRAM team this year.  We’ve had some great times.  We’ve shared a lot of laughs and we have some great memories. 
A heartfelt thanks to Carol and Gavin, who took us in and helped us [...]

 
The Reach To Teach Team.  Season 2
We spent the day at Riverside Park in Yonghe for John’s last game of flag football with the Reach To Teach team.  After the hard rain last night, the field conditions were terrible and we had to pick our way through a muddy, wet field when we arrived.  It [...]

We had a long day today, but we’ve still going out as we’ve been looking forward to the Reach To Teach party at Citizen Cain all week.  More on that later.  Jo is on her way over to our place right now.  I’m excited to see her, as I haven’t seen her, or her husband, Range since before Chinese New [...]

Materials:  3 dice - Preferably the big, plush kind.
Rule:  Numbers 1 and 3 are ‘death numbers’.
I use this game for teaching sentence patterns. 
How to play:  Divide the class into two teams.Write the sentence pattern you are teaching on the board.   Have the two teams take turns making sentences.  Each correct sentence gains one chance to roll [...]

It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again.  Our contracts end on the 31st of March.  These next few weeks are going to go by in a whirlwind of activity as we are prepping new teachers to take over our classes. 
So, we will both be turning to Reach To Teach to help us with our [...]