TEFL tip of the day- Prepositions of time
Marcelo Montecinos, an English teacher from Chile, suggests the ATONIN Time Pyramid- which is basically to get your students to learn the “word” ATONIN and then to remember that the three prepositions in it are in order of the lengths of time we are talking about, being: points of time for AT, dates for ON and longer periods like years for IN.
A very nice tip indeed, which I will try next time I am teaching this point. In return, Marcelo has asked me to provide a link to a TEFL word game he is selling- www.phrazzleme.com . Haven’t tried the game myself, but a teaching idea for a link seems like a fair deal to me, and better than taking cash for randomly mentioning TEFL International in your blog as seems to be their latest marketing tactic. If anyone else would like to swap a good TEFL tip, article or whatever for a link, please contact me using the relevant box above and to the right.
