ESL: Under Your Nose!

Sniffing Your Way to Better Understanding English!

© Mario R. J. Corbin

Oct 23, 2006

Time to pinch your noses or take in the sweet smell of nature!


Using your noses has never been so easy nor as taken for granted as any other sense we posses. It is as simple as having your students smell a flower that just might be thr trick to helping them relate their new found English vocabulary to their native one.

We make the mistake too often of assuming that our students don't understand basic English concepts when it is in fact the language, not the concepts that they are struggling with. After all, every culture, indeed, mostly every language has a vocabulary dedicated to concepts that are identical to English.

By helping your students access this information in a different way you are empowering them by helping thema ssociate the two together.


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