Episode 77: Need to brush up on your CCQs and ICQs?

I know, we don't have much time to cram everything in our lessons but some things are worth taking time over: checking your students' understanding of vocabulary and instructions.  I mean, how hard is it? Not that hard, actually but I'm sure I'm not the only one who's guilty of neglecting a few concept-checking and instruction-checking questions from time to time......not sure what I'm on about?  This episode is for you.  Been teaching a long time?  Sure, dive in and refresh your memory.  I guarantee the last time you really looked at CCQs and ICQs in detail was your teaching course, was it not...? Useful links: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/checking-understanding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocortex#:~:text=The%20neocortex%2C%20also%20called%20the,commands%2C%20spatial%20reasoning%20and%20language. https://human-memory.net/neocortex/ https://englishhelponline.me/2010/05/18/grammatical-expression-manage-to-do-something/ https://human-memory.net/neocortex/ Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠ Theme music by @sean.cass (Instagram). Like, share, DM me and follow me on Instagram @https://www.instagram.com/everythingeflteacher/ and on Facebook @https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeflteacherdevelopment Subscribe to Youtube @Everything EFL for teaching tip videos and full podcast episodes with Closed Captions. Connect with me on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-o-byrne-90b58a55/ Subscribe to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple.... and don’t forget to tell your colleagues. Share the love. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/everything-efl/message

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