Read more about the article TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 3 Planning Under Pressure
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TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 3 Planning Under Pressure

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis’ Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT. See Part 1 and Part 2. Recently, a JTE asked me, shortly before class, if…

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13 August 2026
Read more about the article TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 2 Choosing the Right Expression
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TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 2 Choosing the Right Expression

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis’ Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT. For Part 1, click here. After teaching the first lesson, one question stayed with me.…

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10 August 2026
Read more about the article TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 1 Building the Framework
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TPPT in the Real Classroom: Part 1 Building the Framework

Alan Granada is an ALT in Kanagawa, teaching English across elementary, junior, and senior high schools. He helps students build communicative confidence by starting from what they can already do and using Adrian Leis' Task 1-Present-Practice-Task 2 framework, or TPPT, to guide them through input noticing, flexible output supports, and interaction tasks that gradually increase…

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27 July 2026
Read more about the article Commandment 6 – Make the Language Classes Interesting
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Commandment 6 – Make the Language Classes Interesting

I was positively giddy on the first day of my TESOL certificate's Teaching English Grammar class. Although we were all there to learn how to be good language teachers, I was probably the only one who was that thrilled to get into the nitty gritty of English grammar. Most people probably…

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13 January 2022
Read more about the article The 10 Commandments of Motivating Language Learners
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The 10 Commandments of Motivating Language Learners

This week we are going to take a look at a very interesting paper written by Zoltán Dörnyei and Kata Csizér. It’s called “Ten Commandments for motivating Language Learners” and while we will be focusing on the contents published on page 215, do take a look at the abstract: The question…

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22 June 2021