Category: Verb tenses

Una de las partes más importantes de la gramática son los tiempos verbales, y el presente simple es básico cuando aprendes el idioma inglés. 
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Afirmativa: SUJETO + VERBO (+ s/es/ies en tercera persona)​

Ejemplos:

Puede agregar una palabra de pregunta (why, where, when, how long, who, how, etc.) antes de do o does para solicitar más información.

En la tercera persona del singular, la mayoría de los verbos siempre terminan en -s.

Hay 3 formas de verbos irregulares:

• have = has (He has a new car - Él tiene un auto nuevo).
• go = goes (She goes to the park every day - Ella va al parque todos los días).
• do = does (He does his homework after school - Él hace su tarea después de la escuela).

Los verbos terminados en: vocal + "y" se le agrega "-s"

• pay - pays (She pays with cash - Ella paga en efectivo).
• play – plays (The dog plays with the ball - El perro juega con la pelota).
• say – says (The parrot says "Hello" - El loro dice "Hola").

​​Los verbos que terminan en: "-y" cambian "-y" por "-ies"

• deny - denies (The president denies the affair - El presidente niega la aventura).
• marry = marries (A happier man loves the girl he marries - Un hombre más feliz ama a la chica con la que se casa).
• study = studies (She studies and works - Ella estudia y trabaja).

​Los verbos que terminan en: "s", "z", "sh", "tch" y "ch" se le agrega "-es"

• buzz = buzzes (The bee buzzes like a lawnmower - La abeja zumba como una cortadora de césped).
• miss = misses (He misses you so much - Él te extraña mucho).
• wash = washes (He washes his car every weekend - Él lava su auto todos los fines de semana).
• watch = watches (She watches television in the living room - Ella ve la televisión en la sala).
• teach = teaches (The trainer teaches in a gym - El entrenador enseña en un gimnasio)

Category: Teaching

Here are seven mistakes by teachers that cause us to be less effective:
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Attempts to re-create the brick-and-mortar classroom learning experience, methods, and modes to the online environment is a basic error. Is online better than F2F? If you are asking this question, you should probably continue teaching F2F. 

In the first few days of teaching online, we have to build social-emotional skills of learners  to increase their motivation. There is a strong connection between mental health and academic success because poor mental health can negatively influence learners’ ability to learn.

Online learning requires a higher level of student engagement than F2F learning.  So, reduce the number of contents and focus on assignments to help learners achieve the most important learning outcomes. Learners who study fewer topics, but study them in greater depth, are more successful in academics over their peers who study more topics and spend less time on each.
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Attendance is an archaic and almost meaningless metric in distance learning. Many teachers are monitoring learners' engagement and who is submitting assignments rather than daily attendance because not all learners are able to participate in online learning. Besides, many of them are facing additional barriers than others, like caring siblings, Wi-Fi issues, and financial problems. 
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Here are a few engagement measures to consider:

• Are learners logging on often?
• Are they submitting their work on time?
• Are they asking questions and seeking additional resources?
• Are they responding to feedback? 

Writing documents and recording videos with a bunch of instructions for the lesson won't help, especially if the learners will need more input on a topic. Finding the best way to deliver your content and get your learners to understand you in a face-to-face teaching environment can be challenging. Doing that in an online environment can be even more challenging due to different distractions at home. 

Using different content types can help minimize distractions and keep students engaged in the learning content.

Here's a list of content types:

Videos are an important feature of many online courses. Replacing your lectures with self-made videos can boost learners’ engagement and free you up to work with them directly. Video allows teachers to save hours of repetitive teaching. 

​For many teachers, flipping the classroom begins with live recording their lectures. Sending recorded lectures to learners allows them to pause and rewatch if they didn’t understand it the first time. With recorded lectures, learners will be able to pause the video, rewatch the lesson multiples times according to their learning pace and needs. Also, by adding images and sounds, it is possible to approach learners and make them more interested in what is being taught.

Research on instructional videos shows that learner engagement with videos begins to drop after the 6-minute mark,  ​so multiple short videos are better than one long video instead.

Here's a list of free video editors online:

1. Wondershare Filmora.
2. PowToon.
3. Clipchamp.
4. Animoto.

As your learners are learning from a distance, it is important that they receive consistent feedback on their progress. If they receives a 100 or a 75, that doesn’t necessarily tell them as much as verbal feedback or print feedback, so really there’s going to be an emphasis on teachers giving learners feedback rather than their grades.

​If there is no feedback loop taking place though, learners and parents have no way of knowing what they have done well nor what their next steps are. It also gives the impression that the teacher doesn’t care about the tasks being completed by the student. 

Online teaching comes with its own challenges. Traditionally, teachers develop their courses alone but in online learning, especially for first-time instructors, is a great opportunity to be more collaborative in our approach to teaching. Ask for help. 
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Category: Topics in the syllabus

It sums up the story or article. It’s usually in a larger font and often in bold.

It’s a secondary headline that provides additional information about the story.

It has two elements: the name of the place from where  a story originated and the date on which it was written. It usually appears in bold letters.

It briefly gives the most important information.

It supplies additional information. It’s divided into small paragraphs.

They are used to make a text easier to understand or more interesting.

It used to describe a photograph. It is known as cutline in the US.

Category: Topics in the syllabus

A TV program, also called television show, is a segment of content intended for broadcast on television. 

A cartoon is a program that features animated characters.

Examples: ​The Simpsons, Dragon ball super, Naruto, Rick and Morty, Pokémon, The fairly oddparents & SpongeBob SquarePants.

A TV program hosted by famous chefs, who teach people how to cook.

Examples: ​Iron chef & Celebrity cooking showdown.

A documentary is a non-fictional program that documents real life events, usually created for educational purposes. 

A fictional or true story, featuring actors and actresses who are dealing with struggles of daily life. 

A game show that features contestants who play competitive games or solve quizzes/ puzzles, usually for money.

Examples: ​Who wants to be a millionaire?, The secret password is… & Jeopardy​

TV programs produced for children.

A TV program that helps people change their image or lifestyle.

A show that reports world events as they unfold. 

Examples: ​CNN News, CBS Evening News & 60 Minutes.

A show with ordinary people, showing what they do in strange situations.

Examples: ​Big brother, Survivor, Keeping up with the Kardashians & The bachelor.​

An entertaining TV program with characters in different amusing (comical) situations.

Examples: ​Two and half men, The big bang theory, Modern family, Malcolm & Friends.​

It's a drama serie dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters.

A TV program that features sports or sporting events. 

Examples: ​Super Bowl, Mexican Soccer League, Olympic games, World cup, Grand slam cup, Formula 1 & WWWE.​

A show about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures and how they live. 

Category: Topics in the syllabus

Examples:
Marvel movies, The fast and the furious, Superman, Transformers and James Bond.

Examples:
Saving private Ryan, The thin red line, Platoon, Schindler's list and 1917.

Examples:
Tombstone, 3:10 to Yuma, Brokeback mountain, Django unchained, Unforgiven and Back to the future part III.