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4 Things to Promise my Students at the Start of This School Year
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Another school year has got under way, laden with high hopes and good intentions. But as September gives way to October and we settle in for the long haul, it is all too easy...
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‘How I learnt English': Part II
In my previous post, I focused on the use of songs and videos in order to make the learning experience in the classroom more similar to the reality of our students outside the classroom. In this post,...
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A war of words – Part II
Photo credit: Wikipedia In my previous post, I focused on how poetry formed part of the propaganda offensive designed to encourage young men to join up to fight on the Western Front, using as an...
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TESOL France, 2013
I’m writing this post from my hotel room, a few hundred metres from the site of the 32nd Annual International TESOL France Colloquium. Over the weekend the delegates have the opportunity to listen to...
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CAE Formal Letter of Complaint
David Bradshaw:It’s always great to find material out there for CAE, and even more so if it’s material for writing. Originally posted on Tim's Free English Lesson Plans: This is a lesson plan designed...
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4 Approaches to learning vocabulary
I’ve just read Gareth Davies’s entry on the OUP Blog ‘Getting the words off the page‘ and it set me thinking about how I approach vocabulary learning in my classes. So here are four suggestions I use...
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Mystery photos – modal verbs for speculation and deduction
Here’s a quick exercise to introduce the topic of using modal verbs to express speculation and deduction. The key objective is to activate previous knowledge, which may or may not have been formally...
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Free guide to critical thinking in language teaching
Here is a booklet from John Hughes with 20 activities to promote critical thinking in class. It is free to download.Filed under: Collaborative learning, Combined skills, Methodology, Motivation, Teachers
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Exploiting video in the language classroom: IATEFL Harrogate
I’ve just got back from my first IATEFL Conference, in Harrogate, still feeling elated from the buzz that such big conferences always produce. It’s been great to meet up with so many people I’ve only...
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Newsflash: Hoey Well; Monitor Theory and Lexical Approach Still Dead
Here is an interesting debate to come out of the recent IATEFL conference which does not involve Sugata Mitra.Filed under: Conferences, Methodology, Talks
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