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The Teaching Basic Sentence Structure course approaches sentence structure from the basic building blocks of a sentence right up to the way a sentence is put together. Geoff is an inspiring instructor with a wealth of knowledge and in the course he presents practical, useful and fun ways of understanding and teaching sentence structure. I love the course.

Thanks Geoff, thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the course and look forward to implementing your teaching ideas in the classroom.

I'm an ESL TAFE lecturer and have enjoyed attending Geoff's professional development sessions for several years, both face to face and over Zoom. I am so impressed with how he has maintained his personality, excellent resources and engaging activities in this online workshop. He provides great examples of how we as teachers can introduce, review and assess the grammatical concepts with our students in an easy student-centred manner. The handouts provided are a wonderful resource for information and/ use in the classroom. Geoff is able to explain something simply, avoiding a lot of the technical meta-language terms which can confuse students as well as make grammar practical and fun for the students. I strongly recommend all ESL and literacy teachers to take this course.

G'day Geoff. Thanks for the kind email, I'm happy to give a quick spot of feedback from my perspective as a speechie absolutely. I finally got the time to sit and do the course now in march and April, it was a bit hectic until now with my master's project. So far I'm really enjoying this bottom-up learning approach as compared to the presentation style. I definitely see its value for engagement, and deeper understanding. I think the course is well designed structurally, the first two videos ('well' and the noun concept building video) really emphasized the point and purpose of what we'll be learning from here on in. You've convinced me that it is a better approach absolutely. I wish I'd done this course as a part of my education, it's so useful because it's practical. It teaches/revises the grammar but it goes further and teaches me how to teach these concepts to my students. It actually gives me ideas on how to teach, and example activities. Very much appreciated and I'll be signing up for the others. Not just for the professional-development hours, but because it's actually a useful resource that teaches me something useful, how to teach. I saw you had a new course on how to deliver online lessons, and I'll be adding that to my cart as well. I've now got so many ideas of how to change up and make my sessions more engaging, thank you.

I absolutely loved this Geoff. You brilliantly explain your content and I feel more confident already about what I do well, what and how i avoid, and how exciting and enthralled i'll be when i'm a confident, knowledgable teacher of English ( I am in other ways, yet your courses will give me so much extra that I need.. Thank you very much again.