PechFlickr is something I actually wrote about five years ago as a useful classroom tool for students who have to deal with pictures / imagery in their speaking exams. I'm thinking here more about the Cambridge English: First & Advanced... Continue Reading →
"All the class cheat. And all the years cheat. The teachers don't know, but they all cheat. Everybody cheats." - Student X. ***** It came up in class after a discussion on honesty - so I started talking to all... Continue Reading →
Recently I was lucky enough to run a workshop at IATEFL Glasgow on helping students in language exam classes feel more confident in their abilities. As promised in the session, here are the slides from the session, which I re-titled... Continue Reading →
. . This is a question that occurred to me in a frenzy of test marking that took place last month... I'm interested to know what people think! I'd appreciate your answer before you read on.... Having gone through... Continue Reading →
Earlier this year, a piece from the Edutopia website was doing the rounds under the title "5 highly effective teaching practices". I automatically question pieces like this as I doubt somewhat whether the purpose of the piece is actually to... Continue Reading →
We are approaching the end of the first semester in our school and this is typically a time when we review our assessments, give out our grammar and vocabulary tests and write all the reports. Like many schools, our reports... Continue Reading →
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