Articles by John Conner (bio)

Following are John Conner's recent articles from the BTB Newsletter and Think Spanish! Magazine. These are in Adobe Acrobat format and will open in a new browser window when clicked.

 

The Ideal Lesson Plan: 

Ten Steps for Making Your Students Fluent

In each edition of our Newsletter John Conner presents one step from his acclaimed workshop for teachers, The Ideal Lesson Plan:  Ten Steps for Making Your Students Fluent .  Individual steps appear below:

• Step 10: Free-Flow Discussion - Newsletter, Spring 2008
• Step 2: Organization - Newsletter, Fall 2007
• Step 9:  In-Class Writing - Newsletter, Spring 2007
• Step 8: The Guión Series - Newsletter, Winter 2006
• Step 1: The Warm-Up - Newsletter, Fall 2006

 

Think Spanish! Magazine

We have archived John's monthly articles below:

• ¡Bravo! - E-mail from our Readers! - September 2007
• How about another little quiz? - August 2007
• El pretérito y el imperfecto - July 2007
• “I say” – Some Cool Sayings - June 2007
• ¡Perfecto! The present perfect subjunctive - May 2007
• It’s all relative – some of my favorite pronouns! - April 2007
• The subjunctive again ….. LET’S ESCAPE! - March 2007
• Demonstrative Adjectives (and pronouns!) - February 2007
• Idiomatic Expressions - January 2007
• The Subjunctive Mood after Verbs of Emotion - December 2006
• More Letters from Our Readers - November 2006
• Making Polite Requests - October 2006
• I said: “No!” - September 2006
• How about a little quiz? - August 2006
• I Have Your Number! - July 2006
• The conjunctions "pero," "sino" and "sino que" - June 2006
• When Definite Articles Are/Aren't Commonly Used - May 2006
• The Progressive Tense - April 2006
• The Subjunctive Mood After Indirect Commands - March 2006
• The Personal "a" - February 2006
• Diéreses and “cualquier” vs. “cualquiera” - January 2006
• El pretérito y el imperfecto - December 2005