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/

Join my Breathe Easy, Teacher newsletter community here: http://subscribepage.io/0a49dr

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.