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Диалоги AT THE HOTEL на английском языке с переводом

Перед вами несколько диалогов на английском языке на тему AT THE HOTEL (в отеле). Все диалоги даны с переводом на русский язык. Диалоги В ОТЕЛЕ посвящены разным ситуациям, а потому мы разделили их на несколько категорий:

Бронирование отеля / бронирование номера в отеле – диалоги на английском.

DIALOG 1. Hotel Reservation

RECEPTIONIST: Hello, Waterside Hotel.

CLIENT: Hello. I’d like to make reservations for 3 nights beginning March 6.

RECEPTIONIST: Yes, of course. What kind of room would you like?

CLIENT: I’d like a double room. How much would that be?

CLIENT: O.K. I’ll take it.

RECEPTIONIST: What is the name, please?

CLIENT: The name is Scott, Nil and Susan.

RECEPTIONIST: And what time are you arriving?

CLIENT: We’re planning to arrive around 8:00 in the evening.

RECEPTIONIST: Very well. We’ll have your room ready for you.

CLIENT: OK. Thank you.

RECEPTIONIST: Thank you for calling Waterside Hotel.

ПЕРЕВОД ДИАЛОГА

Администратор: Здравствуйте, отель Waterside.

Клиент: Здравствуйте. Я хотел бы забронировать номер на 3 ночи, начиная с 6 марта.

Администратор: Да, конечно. Какую комнату вы бы хотели?

Клиент: Мне нужен двухместный номер. Сколько будет стоить?

Клиент: Хорошо, я хочу забронировать его.

Администратор: На кого бронировать?

Клиент: Скотт, Нил и Сьюзан.

Администратор: Во сколько вы планируете приехать?

Клиент: Мы планируем прибыть около 8:00 вечера.

Администратор: Прекрасно. Ваша комната будет готова к тому времени.

Клиент: Отлично. Спасибо.

Администратор: Спасибо, что позвонили в отель Waterside.

DIALOG 2. Reservation

CLIENT: Hi there, I want to reserve a hotel room.

RECEPTIONIST: No problem at all. Could I have your full name, please?

CLIENT: Sure, John Muller.

RECEPTIONIST: Hi, Mr. Muller. I’m Michelle, at your service. When do you need the room?

CLIENT: My plans are to be there June 14th to the 17th.

RECEPTIONIST: We have new room rates, sir. Will that be acceptable to you?

CLIENT: It depends on the price, of course. What is it?

CLIENT: I have no problem with that.

RECEPTIONIST: Great! Would you prefer smoking or nonsmoking?

CLIENT: Definitely nonsmoking. I can’t handle that smell.

RECEPTIONIST: Nonsmoking. Now, is a queen-size bed okay?

CLIENT: No problem.

RECEPTIONIST: Great, Mr. Muller. Your reservation is confirmed. Now all I need is your phone number.

CLIENT: Of course! It’s 626-555-1739.

RECEPTIONIST: Thank you so much, Mr. Muller. We look forward to seeing you!

ПЕРЕВОД ДИАЛОГА

Клиент: Здравствуйте, я хочу забронировать номер в отеле.

Администратор: Без проблем. Ваше полное имя, пожалуйста?

Клиент: Джон Мюллер.

Администратор: Здравствуйте, мистер Мюллер. Я Мишель, к вашим услугам. Когда вам нужна комната?

Клиент: Я планирую остановиться у вас с 14 по 17 июня.

Администратор: У нас обновились цены на номера, сэр. Это вас устраивает?

Клиент: Зависит от цены, конечно. Сколько за номер?

Администратор: 308 долларов за ночь.

Клиент: Без проблем.

Администратор: Отлично! Вам комнату для курящих или для некурящих?

Клиент: Определенно для некурящих. Терпеть не могу запах табака.

Администратор: Хорошо, для некурящих. Кровать в номере большая, хорошо?

Клиент: Никаких проблем.

Администратор: Отлично, мистер Мюллер. Ваш номер забронирован. Теперь мне нужен только ваш номер телефона.

Клиент: Конечно! 626-555-1739.

Администратор: Большое спасибо, мистер Мюллер. Мы с нетерпением ждем встречи с вами!

Заселение в отель / регистрация в отеле – диалоги с переводом

DIALOG 1. Checking in

RECEPTIONIST: Welcome to “Travelodge”. May I help you?

CLIENT: I’d like to check in. I have a reservation.

RECEPTIONIST: What’s your name, please?

CLIENT: Andrew Swenson.

RECEPTIONIST: Yes Mr. Swenson. You requested a single room for four nights, is that correct?

CLIENT: Yes, that’s right.

RECEPTIONIST: Could you fill in the registration form, please. Thank you. Your room number is 1409. Here’s your key. Enjoy your stay at “Travelodge”. Would you like assistance with your bags?

CLIENT: No thanks, I only have one. I can manage.

ПЕРЕВОД ДИАЛОГА

Администратор: Добро пожаловать в отель «Travelodge». Чем я могу вам помочь?

Клиент: Я хотел бы заселиться. У меня забронирован номер.

Регистратор: Как вас зовут?

Клиент: Эндрю Свенсон.

Администратор: Да, мистер Свенсон. Вы забронировали одноместный номер на четыре ночи, верно?

Клиент: Да, все верно.

Регистратор: Пожалуйста, заполните регистрационную форму. Спасибо. Ваш номер 1409. Вот ваш ключ. Приятного пребывания в «Travelodge». Вам нужна помощь с багажом?

Клиент: Нет, спасибо, у меня только один чемодан. Я справлюсь.

Dialog 2. Checking in

CLIENT: I have a reservation under the name of Muller.

RECEPTIONIST: Could I see your ID, please, sir?

CLIENT: Of course! Let me take it out of my wallet.

RECEPTIONIST: Thank you, sir. Now, do you have a credit card, sir?

CLIENT: Yes, of course. Is American Express okay?

RECEPTIONIST: I’m sorry, sir. Only VISA or MasterCard.

CLIENT: In that case, here’s my VISA.

RECEPTIONIST: Thank you. Your room number is 507, queen bed, nonsmoking. Is that agreeable to you, sir?

CLIENT: Yes, I’m easy to please.

RECEPTIONIST: Very good. Here is your room key, sir. If you need anything at all, please dial 0.

ПЕРЕВОД

Клиент: У меня забронирован номер на фамилию Мюллер.

Администратор: Могу я взглянуть на ваше удостоверение (паспорт), сэр?

Клиент: Конечно! Позвольте мне достать его из бумажника.

Администратор: Спасибо. У вас есть кредитная карта, сэр?

Клиент: Да, конечно. American Express подойдет?

Администратор: Извините, сэр. Только VISA или MasterCard.

Клиент: В таком случае, вот VISA.

Администратор: Спасибо. Ваш номер 507, для некурящих, большая двуспальная кровать. Подойдет?

Клиент: Да, мне легко угодить.

Администратор: Очень хорошо. Вот ключ от вашего номера, сэр. Если вам что-нибудь понадобится, наберите 0.

Диалог В ОТЕЛЕ

DIALOG: Hotel Services

ROOM SERVICE: Hello. Room service.

CLIENT: Hello, I’m calling from room 113.I would like to order dinner.

ROOM SERVICE: What would you like to order?

CLIENT: I’d like the roast beef dinner, with mashed potatoes and green beans.

ROOM SERVICE: Would you care for something to drink with dinner’?

CLIENT: Ah, yes a large glass of milk.

ROOM SERVICE: Any dessert?

CLIENT: A dish of vanilla ice cream

ROOM SERVICE: Thank you. We’ll bring it up in about thirty minutes.

ПЕРЕВОД:

Обслуживание номеров: Здравствуйте. Обслуживание номеров.

Клиент: Здравствуйте, я звоню из комнаты 113.Я хотел бы заказать ужин.

Обслуживание номеров: Что бы вы хотели заказать?

Клиент: Я бы хотел на ужин ростбиф с картофельным пюре и зеленой фасолью.

Обслуживание номеров: Не хотите что-нибудь попить?

Клиент: Ах, да, большой стакан молока.

Обслуживание номеров: Как насчет десерта?

Клиент: Ванильное мороженое.

Обслуживание номеров: Спасибо. Мы принесем вам ужин примерно через тридцать минут.

Выезд из отеля – диалоги на английском

DIALOG 1. Checking out

RECEPTIONIST: Good morning. May I help you?

CLIENT: Yes, I´d like to check out now. My name´s Adams, room 312. Here´s the key.

CLIENT: What´s the 14 pounds for?

RECEPTIONIST: That´s for the phone calls you made from your room.

CLIENT: Can I pay with traveller´s cheques?

RECEPTIONIST: Certainly. May I have your passport, please?

CLIENT: Here you are.

RECEPTIONIST: Could you sign each cheque here for me?

RECEPTIONIST: Here are your receipt and your change, sir. Thank you.

CLIENT: Thank you. Goodbye.

ПЕРЕВОД ДИАЛОГА

Администратор: Доброе утро. Могу я вам помочь?

Клиент: Да, я хотел бы рассчитаться за пребывание в вашем отеле сейчас. Меня зовут Адамс, комната 312. Вот ключ от номера.

Клиент: За что я плачу 14 фунтов?

Администратор: Это за телефонные звонки, которые вы сделали из номера.

Клиент: Могу ли я оплатить дорожными чеками?

Администратор: Не могли бы вы подписать каждый чек здесь для меня?

Клиент: Конечно. Вот ваша квитанция и ваша сдача, сэр. Спасибо.

Клиент: Спасибо. До свидания.

Надеюсь. эти диалоги на тему В ОТЕЛЕ (AT THE HOTEL) с переводом на русский язык оказались вам полезными.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Notion

Notion is one of the fastest growing productivity applications right now, with users. It has amassed over 4M users at last count and this constantly grows each day, thanks to the flexible nature of Notion’s powerful databases, easy to use pages and speed improvements.

This is a guide to Notion and a full beginner’s overview of what you need to know.

Before we get started, quick resources that might help:

👩🏻‍💻 Advanced Notion Learning with Marie Poulin’s Notion Mastery here

*Please note above links include affiliates.

✅ What is Notion?

Imagine a lego structure.

Notion provides the building blocks and you can create your own layouts and toolkit to get work done. Many people refer to Notion as an “internal wiki” allowing teams and individuals to plan their projects, work and goals.

This workspace allows you to write in a beautiful clean space, build your own personal wiki (with endless layers of content), plan using a kanban view, a calendar or a simple list view and last, but not least, to capture your workflows and record everything creating spreadsheets and databases. Notion works across all platforms including on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Web.

Notion offers team functionality for real-time collaboration and provides the ability for teams to share, comment and assign tasks and reminders. So as much as individuals and professionals can use Notion, so can teams.

✨ How does Notion work?

The official tagline reads «The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.» and it’s totally true! Not surprisingly, people are comparing it to a mash-up of Google Docs, Evernote, Trello and Todoist.

Being able to do all these things using only one app is clearly a dream come true.

Notion works with blocks and they can be whatever you want: text, image, checklist, bullet points, code, you name it. You can easily write a sentence and then transform it in a stand-alone page or an entire database, the possibilities are (almost) endless.

If you’re still not sure of what I’m talking about, just visit their homepage and test it live in the embedded demo page (no subscription required).

Think of Notion as similar to a box of Lego: you’ve got everything you need to make something — you just need to decide what it is you’ll create. You can either follow the example on the box, or create something for yourself.

⚡️ How to Use Notion

Notion has a multitude of blocks to use.

As we said, Notion is incredibly versatile and can be used for whatever you want, but the best way to get an idea of that is to see some examples of how people are using it.

The first one is from my own account and it’s a database I use to keep track of the episode show notes I write for the Tools They Use podcast. I love that, along with this spreadsheet view, I can also change it and filter it by year, for example, or easily change it to a calendar view, and so on.

Notion itself provides you with a lot of pre-made templates for different areas of your life, from meeting notes to personal goals. Also, the ability to share pages using a unique link makes the app usable even for those who don’t have an account.

👩🏻‍💻 How Does Notion Works in Real Life?

For example, I’ve recently used Notion to create a public portfolio of my work online that people can easily visit clicking a link. Being able to drag and drop different blocks in columns, allowed me to set up the page layout with much more freedom than a normal writing document, with zero effort compared to building a webpage from scratch.

The following examples will show you how people use Notion in their day-to-day life. Twitter is the perfect platform to bring all of the amazing, wonderful ways to use Notion across their work and personal life.

I’ve just about moved my *entire* life into @NotionHQ. pic.twitter.com/ZCyAARadhQ

This is a great example from Ben about how to apply Notion to personal and work based goals. A lot of his set-up is like a web-page, allowing him to see his planning stages, goals and daily routine items.

It works very well. I use it for rules, character sheets, session logs and just about everything. Players have access to whatever I share, and it pipes updates to a Slack channel we set up. https://t.co/wkbqWq4vqe

It works very well. I use it for rules, character sheets, session logs and just about everything. Players have access to whatever I share, and it pipes updates to a Slack channel we set up. https://t.co/wkbqWq4vqe

\u2014 \uD83D\uDC4B Simone Wong (@simonewym) April 7, 2018

I’ve started taking some meeting notes in a @NotionHQ calendar view and it’s basically the best thing ever. So much better than searching email threads for meeting notes/agendas/etc. pic.twitter.com/uOwAN4SFDq

I’ve started taking some meeting notes in a @NotionHQ calendar view and it’s basically the best thing ever. So much better than searching email threads for meeting notes/agendas/etc. pic.twitter.com/uOwAN4SFDq

Look ma, @NotionHQ is helping me out with my wedding planning. \uD83D\uDE0D pic.twitter.com/MmdPDyMPto

\u2014 Rahul Chowdhury (@chowdhuryrahul) June 3, 2018

Here’s a quick look at the video research/writing/production workflow I created in @NotionHQ yesterday: https://t.co/KJViZkcYbT

The combination of a stellar templating engine + databases with multiple views (calendar, kanban, table) + Markdown is POWERFUL.

Here’s a quick look at the video research/writing/production workflow I created in @NotionHQ yesterday: https://t.co/KJViZkcYbT

The combination of a stellar templating engine + databases with multiple views (calendar, kanban, table) + Markdown is POWERFUL.

at some point i’m going to be That Person\u2122 and write a medium post about my

personal productivity tricks

at some point i’m going to be That Person™ and write a medium post about my

personal productivity tricks

How Much is Notion Priced at?

For more info on the plans and to compare all the features, be sure to visit their pricing page.

💸 Should I upgrade to Notion Paid?

Is my Notion account static month to month?

Do you use Notion as a way to create internal wikis or checklists and rarely add to it on a monthly basis? Or when you do, it is very minor? If so, you might not need the paid plans. You could go on with the Free Plan until you see fit to upgrade.

How many blocks am I adding per month?

Getting a judge of how many blocks you add per month is the best way around using Notion. Maybe you add roughly 50 new blocks per month and have used 500 already. Then you’ll be out of blocks within a (too early for maths)… 12 months slot. This might give you time to explore and judge Notion.

Which tools does Notion replace?

🔗 How to Connect Notion to External Apps

We’ve created a handy video with William Nutt to help you learn the Notion API in 2021.

How to Use Notion as a Planner

A digital planner can help you organize your tasks and also plan out things in advance. Notion is quickly climbing that popularity ladder while replacing apps like Evernote, Trello, Google Calendar, OneNote, and more exist to help out as planners. Many users utilize Notion as the planner to organize their week or month. Read on how to use Notion as a planner using templates and different project views.

There are a couple of ways to use Notion as a planner. You can either create one from scratch or opt for a Notion template to fulfill your requirements. In the example below, we will use some Notion templates that help you track tasks, habits, and plan a month. Let’s get started.

1. Use a To-Do Template

Templates play a huge role in the Notion ecosystem. By default, Notion comes with some built-in and third-party templates made by community members. Among them, there is a perfect template to manage tasks. Follow the steps below to add it to Notion.

Step 1: Open the Notion app on your PC or Mac and create a workspace.

Step 2: Click on the ‘Add a page’ option at the left sidebar. and Notion will open a blank page for you.

Step 3: Click on Templates from the blank Notion page and it will open the default Notion template gallery.

Step 4: You can find the To-Do template under the Engineering section. Click on the Import button to add it to your Notion page.

The To-Do template is a kanban-style board similar to Trello but it’s powerful with all the relevant functions.

You can add relevant names to each board section. As for cards, simply click on the default card and start adding details.

You can add information such as assigned user, status, priority, date, comments, and more. You can use the ‘Add a property’ option and integrate mode fields such as Email, Phone, URL, Formula, Relation, and more. The possibilities are endless here. It’s up to your use case on how much info you want to pack in a card.

As you make progress with a card, simply drag and drop cards to a relevant section.

2. Weekly Agenda Template

The template above is more suited to manage small projects. Notion can also work as dedicated task management. For that, we are going to use the Weekly Agenda template. Go through the steps below.

Step 1: Open Notion and create a workspace.

Step 2: Create a new page from the left sidebar and choose templates from the blank Notion page.

Step 3: You will find the Weekly Agenda template under the Design section. Import it to your Notion page.

Step 4: Start adding tasks to a weekday. You can add as many tasks to a particular day of the week.

As it’s the case with any task management app, Notion offers a reminder functionality as well. You will need to use Notion commands for that.

Move to a task that you want to get reminded about. Use the ‘/’ command and type remind. Notion will show a Date or reminder option. Click on it.

You can either select Today or Tomorrow. Select the relevant option and you will see it added to a task. To change the due date and time, click on the current date option, and it will open the pop-up menu to change the date and time. For long tasks, you can also assign an End date.

Repeat the process for all tasks, and you will end up with a robust task management system in Notion.

3. Create a Calendar in Notion

Notion can also replace Google Calendar for you. It won’t have tight integration with other Google apps, but it works perfectly fine for an average user. Here, we won’t be using a Notion template, but opt for the default function to create a database.

Step 1: Create a workspace from scratch in Notion.

Step 2: Select Calendar under the Database option in Notion.

Step 3: Notion will create a calendar view on the page.

Step 4: Click the + icon under any date and start adding entries.

Step 5: As for details, you can title, date, tags, and insert properties such as Email, Phone, and more.

We like how one can simply drag and drop entries from one date to another. However, the real treasure lies behind different views. It’s something that separates Notion from other software in the market.

Simply click on Add a view option, and you can choose from various views such as Timeline, Boards, Lists, and Gallery. Among them, we prefer the Notion Timeline view as it goes perfectly fine with the GT usage.

Create a Perfect Plan In Notion

Notion is the swiss army knife of productivity apps. You can easily manage tasks, projects, and create a customized calendar that meets your needs. How are you planning to use Notion? Let us know in the comments below.

Next up: Notion is a joy to use with keyboard shortcuts. Read the post below to learn about the top eleven Notion keyboard shortcuts to boost your productivity.

Last updated on 13 July, 2021

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More about the perfect lesson planning

Lesson planning is a significant element of the teaching-learning system. It helps teachers to create a logical sequence of stages and activities to achieve the learning objectives, think over better timing for activities, reflect on the lesson and so on. A lot of teachers wonder how to create an effective lesson plan, what stages it should include, how to set clear lesson goals, the list goes on.

Skyteach invited Mihaela Dascalu to conduct a webinar «The Perfect Lesson Plan «. Mihaela shared her knowledge on the best strategies of lesson planning and main components of a lesson plan, talked about the difference between lesson aims and learning outcomes, writing clear and measurable learning outcomes. Below you’ll find the answers to the questions the speaker didn’t have time to respond during the webinar.

Do you think a 25min lesson can be productive? We spend 5 min for administrative issues, 5 min for warm up, results of the lesson — 5 min. So only10 min for main activity.

I assume that a 25-minute lesson is for very young learners, whose attention span is very limited. I confess I have never taught such a short lesson. Maybe I have wrongly assumed that the most common classroom time is 50 minutes minimum.

For the main activity, 10 minutes can be enough, depending on what you want to do, but a lesson cannot be made of one activity. There should be a number of two or three activities that build up into the main/productive activity, which, if not finished in class, can be taken home as homework. But again, it depends.

For a 25-minute lesson, the admin stuff should be kept to a minimum or ignored if possible (just notice and do it right before class or after class). The warm up could be just questions ‘How are you today?’ and go into a lead in activity to introduce the students to the new topic. For very young learners a vocabulary building activity and a game with that vocabulary as the main ‘production’ activity seems enough.

When is the best time to create a lesson plan: while creating a term plan or just before the lesson?

Although I do know that the policies of some schools require that the teachers present their lesson plans for a month in advance at least, this seems a non-sense to me. You can prepare your lessons a week in advance or the day before the lesson. If you are an experienced teacher and saved some lessons that worked well before, you just need to modify the plan to fit your new group of students (the class profile will help you make these adjustments).

In a term, you do know how many classes you have. After you have studied the curriculum objectives and the syllabus for that class, you need to create a framework of work. So now that you have the whole course objectives and the number of class hours, you need to allocate one class for ‘getting to know your students’, for diagnostic testing to find out the language needs of your students (this will go in the class profile), mid-course testing/assessment if necessary, and final class or classes for exams, and the rest goes to class teaching the material.

You plan just the topics and the aims. You can even sketch a plan for each, but not detailed lesson plans, because you do not know what is going to happen in the reality of the class. Leave the writing of full lesson plans till you are closer to the lessons themselves but at least you have a framework to work from.

How can I understand that the plan was a success from student’s feedback?

It is NOT the plan that is successful but the lesson you taught guided by that plan. Good indicators might include the smiles the students give you at the end of the class, the fact that some may want to chat with you about the lesson at the end, that they may leave the classroom chatting in English, or by formally giving them a check-out card two minutes before the bell rings where they have to write one activity they enjoyed, and one activity that was not useful. Naturally, these will be anonymous and you will collect them from each student leaving the classroom.

Is it better to have a lesson plan every lesson printed or in my mind?

It can be printed, handwritten as a full plan or in the form of notes with each activity and its timing but most importantly, write the learning objectives of that lesson not to lose sight of what you want your students to learn in that lesson. Yes, the students might achieve them all or not, but these are the red flags that drive your lesson and will help you reflect on your lesson after it is done.

Should I prepare a lesson plan (like you introduced in the webinar) every lesson?

If you are a beginner teacher, I would strongly recommend that you write full lesson plans even though they take time. This full lesson plan is a deep-thinking process, but it is well worth it. After you get used to it, you do not need to write as much because you will get accustomed to this flow of thinking about your lessons. The teacher’s aim and the learning objectives will still have to be written down…and even on the board for your students so that they too can see where you are going and the reasons behind the activities you are doing with them.

Should we check homework before warm-up?

If you gave them homework, yes.

How much time do we have to check the previous homework?

It all depends on the type of homework that you have given them. The time for checking homework is up to you. Do not spend a lot of time doing it. If it is a written piece, just collect and correct them after class or and during class if your students are engaged in independent activities that do not require your immediate control (naturally, still keep an eye on them).

Is it possible (and wise) to set up homework at the beginning of a lesson?

I have never tried myself and I cannot imagine it done this way. I think if you do this, some students might think only of it and will try to start doing it during your class to avoid working at home, and this can be very disruptive.

What do you do if the time allotted for the speaking activity (e.g. discussion) has run out, but the students haven’t finished the activity and feel like speaking on?

This is a classroom management issue. That is why we need to limit the students’ time for doing an activity. This time limit has to be set when you give them the instructions. Just allow a reasonable and realistic amount of time for a speaking activity (in groups or pairs). The students need to know how long they have, and you can even ask them again when you check instructions: ‘How much time do you have?’ Tell them that they will not be granted extra time. This will keep them focused and on track. You just need to be quite strict. Well, if something really interesting comes up, then allow them a little more time to finish if you have that time.

How to measure your time on activities, especially with big groups?

This comes with experience and knowledge of your group of students. Try setting one time limit for a type of activity and if it works well you can allow the same amount of time again when you have the same type of activity. It is just trial-and-error based on your knowledge of the group. After a few attempts, you will time your activities better.

Which part of the lesson planning can be the most time-consuming?

Good question. For me, it is the writing of the SMART learning objectives because it takes a lot of thinking based on knowledge of the group, the aims of the lesson taken from the official curriculum, the teaching aids I have available, and the amount of time I have.

I forgot to mention this during the webinar: the learning objectives should be S.M.A.R.T., i.e. Specific, Measurable, Achievable (in the time-frame we have at our disposal), Relevant, and Time-bound.

Choosing the right activities leading to the final productive/creative activity could be time-consuming for a novice teacher. The coursebooks are usually helpful because you have everything there unless you decide that some coursebook activities are boring, not that useful to achieve one learning objective or another, or not quite relevant for your students, in which case you need to look for something else and this may take some time.

How long does it take you to write a lesson plan like this (like presented in the webinar)?

It takes me between an hour or two if I build a lesson from scratch, i.e. when I do not follow a coursebook. I repeat, it takes some time in the beginning when you are not used to it but when you get familiar with the thinking processes behind it, it does not take more than half an hour. I am not counting here the time to do photocopies or write your own task-sheets or handouts.

If a student has some questions not connected with this particular aim of the lesson ( maybe he doesn’t understand something and it can make problems in the future) is it possible to answer them to make it clear and then go back to the plan?

It depends on the question. If you can answer quickly only to that student, yes, of course, go back to your plan. In case there are more students who have the same question and they need extended explanations that are really important because, otherwise, you will not be able to continue your lesson, then stop everything, explain/clarify/elicit from other students and try to move on. Sometimes, these situations can become LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, and these you cannot plan. They just happen so do not ignore them. Leave the plan aside and deal with what the students need at that moment. (You need to use your knowledge of the group and your intuition to see if that is a genuine learning need and not a ‘trap’ set by your students to throw you off track.)

May the teacher use communicative games for reflection?

The reflections that I was talking about in the webinar is the teacher’s post-lesson self-reflection to see what went well, what did not and why, and how they can improve his/her teaching by choosing new personal aims.

If you want, you can have your students reflect on their own learning at the end of the lesson and this reflection can be done as a communicative pair or group activity. The teacher could use the results of this kind of activity for his/her own post-lesson reflections in combination with self-reflection on the lesson.

To do this, the students have to be trained and to be quite responsible and serious, even though it can be quite fun. Training the students to be reflective learners can be a topic for another webinar. This topic is quite helpful, given the fact that we live in such a fast-paced world that teaching the students to be independent and responsible learners with developed critical thinking skills has become a necessity.

How to check if you have succeeded with your plan?

We check if the lesson was successful or to what extent it was successful. Yes, it was based on a plan. Have the students achieved the learning objectives? If you wrote them on the board at the beginning of your lesson and, with your students, ticked them one by one as done, you can say…and the students can say that the lesson was successful.

Now, let’s say you have achieved them all. Look back to your lesson plan and ask yourself: have I used all the activities planned? Have I used the time effectively for each activity? What has deterred me from doing one of the activities that I planned? I did not get to do it, but was it important? Did it stop the flow of learning? …..and the like. If you managed to do all the carefully planned activities, achieved the learning objectives, you feel good inside and the students left your class satisfied, then your lesson was great and the plan worked.

Is it possible for a lesson to be effective without getting feedback from your students?

At the end of each activity, we need to organize feedback. The purpose is for the students to check if what they did was correct, to correct themselves, to know if they did well or partly well, to have a feeling that that activity is done and another one is following. Without this feedback at the end of each activity, I do not think the lesson would be so effective as a whole.

If you refer to getting feedback from the students at the end of the lesson so that you can have some idea of how this lesson was perceived by the students, then this is only optional. If you need the students’ assessment of your own lesson, then do it, but carefully. Not all the students are honest.

As for you giving general feedback to your students at the end of the lesson, this needs to be done. It is part of closing a lesson on a positive note, stressing the positive and telling the students what they need to be more careful next time. Appreciate their effort and dedication during the lesson. It helps build rapport.but only if they deserve praise. Never give praise when it is not deserved, just give encouragement.

What is better … PPP or TTT?

There is no comparison between them. They have different purposes and they are used with students of different ages, levels, and language needs. Also, there are other ways/approaches/methods of sequencing lessons. What about the Task-based approach? What about teaching listening or reading skills? These do not fall under PPP or TTT. We use more eclectic approaches and it all depends on who, why, what we teach. As teachers, we need to know different ways of staging the lessons, use them as prescribed or combine them. Do not feel conscripted by one model or another or by fashions. Let’s use our critical thinking skills, the knowledge about our students in front of us, the knowledge of the subject we are teaching, and keep an open mind to everything that is ‘sold’ to us. Notice the students, react to their needs, be human, plan your lessons carefully with your students in mind, visualize yourself teaching them, and be yourself, real, genuine. Do not think that you have to be someone you are not.

What should I plan to make sure to increase STT if there is a group of students?

This is a question for a workshop on classroom management or how to teach speaking.

Plan for pair work, and group work, but the main principle is to do anything you can as a teacher to increase students’ confidence when speaking English, mainly the shy ones: teach vocabulary and do lots of vocabulary activities and games, strengthen their grammar, encourage them, and so on. This topic is quite large and it needs a workshop dedicated to it.

How I use Notion for travel planning

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Notion for pre-trip research

When I planned my work trip the year before, I had created a template to capture my research on each destination I planned to visit. I amended a travel template provided by Notion. The ability to create a template to use repeatedly is one of the impressive features of Notion. I created the template once and each time I click on it, Notion automatically creates a page for me to move to the relevant place before I fill in the details I have learned from my research.

For our April 2019 vacation, I knew the beginning and end destination of our trip. We were planning a road trip from Knysna to Cape Town , but I was not sure where we would spend the days in between or how long we would spend in each destination. I wanted to ensure that we had sufficient time to explore all the towns and places of interest from Knysna to Cape Town, so I started doing research on each town in the area. Sites like TripAdvisor made this easy. I also used posts from travel blogs I had previously saved in Evernote .

I used my previously created template to create a separate Notion page for each town. As you can see in the pictures above and below, the template includes tables for sights to see and restaurants to try, a list of possible hotels to stay at, and useful webpages. The tables included columns for the cost of each item, tags to categorize each item, the URL, comments based on reviews read or important information to remember. I also included a tick box to keep track of the items we visited and which not. This may be useful if we ever get to the same destination again. Researching each town took long, but was the most important step in planning our travel itinerary .

The completed destination pages helped me to see how much there was to do and see in each town. Based on the information collected, I then decided on the priority sights and restaurants to visit, which helped me decide how much time we should spend in each town. I then decided in which towns we would overnight and which we would just pass through.

Creating an overall travel itinerary

From here I created an overall travel schedule with all the overnight stops. Each day’s entry includes details about the hotel I have booked , including the contact details, address and other essential information.

Another outstanding feature of using Notion for travel planning is that it allows you to see the same information in different formats. Here is the same information as above, but in a table view.

I added a map with the entire route we would follow from the beginning to the end. Although Notion allows for embedded maps, I included a screenshot of the map instead.

Identifying the main pre-trip tasks

Once I knew our overnight stops and transport requirements, I made a list of the main pre-trip tasks. This included items, such as booking flights, accommodation and car rentals .

Saving all trip documents in Notion

After completing the main pre-trip tasks, I included the booking confirmations for our flights, car rental and hotels. Some I added the booking PDFs, with others I embedded the documents from Evernote . I find it useful to have all the essential trip information together in Notion.

Notion for travel budgeting

After doing the bookings, I started a page in Notion to keep track of our travel budget and our spending.

I first created a pre-trip spending table to calculate the cost of items such as car rentals, hotel bookings and flights cost us. Notion’s tables allow calculations, which is perfect for budgeting spreadsheets.

I then created a table to track our spending during the trip. I updated this table each day during our trip to give me the total trip expenses when we got home.

Creating a packing or other lists in Notion

I also used Notion to create a packing list template. I have two different templates, one for work travel and one for personal travel. If I go on a work trip with personal travel days, I combine the two items from both templates. Even though the packing list may differ depending on where I travel to and the time of year, it is easy to delete items that are not relevant for a specific trip.

I also developed lists for items to purchase before our trip, and other items I needed to get done. Notion allows for lists in many formats. You can use a simple to do list or have a relational table linking items together. It is a flexible tool that allows you to get things done in the way you prefer.

Notion for travel planning: items to consider

Other resources on using Notion for travel planning

Here are other blog posts discussing the use of Notion for travel planning:

Notion provides many templates on their website that you can use for free. All the travel notion templates I have created are modifications of other Notion templates.

Should you try Notion for travel planning?

I have used many tools for travel planning, but none have been as robust and flexible as Notion. Notion allows you to plan and manage in ways that suit your own style. I love having everything related to my trips in one place. After completing a trip I can go back to the trip pages and see what I did, how much I spent – everything is there in a format I chose and prefer. The ability to create your own travel notion template is one benefit of using Notion for travel planning.

You can try Notion for free, but if you decide that you will pay for this wonderful tool, it only costs a few dollars per month. This is a very reasonable price for everything you get with Notion.

Have you tried Notion before? What other apps do you use for planning your trips and itineraries?