Grammar Tools in Communicative Language Teaching

I am taking a class at the University of North Dakota that asked us to do an action research project. Part of that project is to share our research and finding with other teachers. So, being the Flipped Learning teacher that I am, I created a video.

The video overviews the problem, my interventions, and the results that I saw. If you are interested in some tools that will help you teach English Grammar and you use the Communicative Language Teaching approach, you may find this helpful.

 

If you have any comments or questions about this research, please let me know in the comments below. Thanks!

Talent Show 2014

For the past three years I have performed at my school's Talent Show. It all started on March 11, 2011 when there was the 11.0 Earthquake in Japan and Fukushima disaster. About half of the students at my school left. The faculty was desperately looking for more acts to fill out the Talent Show, so I volunteered to sing. I have been involved in Musical Theater since I was in 7th Grade. I have performed in 12 musicals, many of which were lead roles. For example I have been Harold Hill in The Music Man, Warbucks in Annie, and Sky Masterson in  Guys and Dolls.

After that first year it has become a tradition that I perform something. However this year I decided to do something special. My talented wife and I decided to perform a duet. We sang "Love is an Open Door" from Frozen. It isn't as good as the movie, but I think we did a pretty good job; especially if you consider that we started rehearsing on Monday and the Talent Show was on Wednesday.

Enjoy!