Exchange handy info on how to teach, or more importantly how to avoid appearing stupid when difficult questions are asked by your students. E.G. When confonted by a difficult question simply let that question serve as the students homework.

Whenever you inadvertently commit mistakes, tell them you're only human.

on  the first day show them whose the boss >!!!!!!!!!

on the first day stae the ground rule>>i ma your teacher....youre my students!!!

the answer is at the tip of my tongue. can you please get the answer with the tip of your tongue? 

nice advice. i'd use it.  :tongue2:

beware: the time is near!!!!!!!!!!!! :o  repent repent, REPENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >

if you're asking for example of emergencies, and a student can't think of the right words so he makes a circle with his thumb and index finger on one hand and inserts the index finger from other hand into aforementioned hole, and says "man like this, stuck", you might think the meaning is pretty obvious. However if you then write "sex with small objects on the board", you will be wrong. its obviously a man falling into an open pit. duh

:uglystupid: WE ARE THE BORG; LOWER YOUR DEFENSES RESISTANCE IS FUTILE........

... websites abound with many teaching forums and advices from professional esl teachers...

in my case, I rely on wit... smile.. and say  "you got me there!"

then immediate shift to the point of your lesson...


it would be rarely that a student asks a difficult question if only we prepare for it (all the ins and outs of our lesson)

if youre caught off guard, delaying tactics would do the trick.

Best solution is to be prepared all the time before  entering  the classroom. If it's unavoidable  of mental blocked tell them that's for homework. Let's face it sometimes the student's are more researched oriented than the teacher? joke ...but i'm sure all of you teachers here at BPC are very smart and talented.

...first thing in the morning...give them quiz....like current events, or something about society, religion, love, anything under the sun....just to harden their thoughts....or better yet pakantahin mo cla one by one di mo namamalayan tapos na oras mo...wahahaha...(chinese style isu).... ;D