This unit reflects what I have long felt about course books, albeit the experience being that the course books were for my second language - mandarin chinese...
Teaching and as well relearning pronunciation and phonology is something that I feel that as native English speaker may have a hard time explaining why certain words are pronounced in a certain way rather or even stress sounds on different words indicating different meanings...
Seating arrangements can affect the ambiance of an entire class, and has to be carefully considerate of each student's study habits, strengths/weaknesses, as well as personalities...
I wish I could do more receptive activities since I feel that my students are stronger in reading and writing than they are in speaking, however my role at the high school I teach at is to make English more communicative...
Unit 6, on the utilization of past tenses, has given me invaluable ways to outline the general uses of different verbs with clarity, present simple formulas to apply, and anticipate common problems...