For those that may have missed it, here are the slides (as pdf) from the webinar I gave at the IH Teachers' Online Conference on 3rd November. The session was a look at common problems learners have with writing for... Continue Reading →
It's not often that, as teachers, we are given the opportunity to step into the shoes of our students. Ken Wilson writes about his experiences in the German classroom on his blog and Scott Thornbury has described being a beginner in Catalan -... Continue Reading →
More items emerging from the black hole of the internet that is my “Further Investigation” folder. These are the links to various interesting things I've saved to look at later and which have languished there unremembered until today. Where remembered,... Continue Reading →
For those involved with CAE exam classes - I've just put up a directory of online resources which you can access here: CAE Online Resource Directory There's a mix of exam information, online practice exercises and teaching advice, so take... Continue Reading →
This is something I tried out with a class yesterday as a way of giving ongoing partial feedback on a set of module review questions, though I think it would work as a feedback technique on any larger exercise or... Continue Reading →
There seems to be a lot of anti-testing sentiment prevalent in the teaching world at the moment. There's a particular degree of vitriol that seems to be reserved for standardised testing, but which has tapped a general anti-educational zeitgeist and... Continue Reading →
The following email from the British Council just popped up in my inbox - there's a couple of interesting testing related opportunities there: (1) three days work item testing for six hundred pounds (2) being trained up to be a... Continue Reading →
For all those of you that teach FCE preparation classes - here's a list of the best stuff I've found online for FCE prep. Most of the resources can be classified as either "online practice activities" or "teaching ideas" -... Continue Reading →
If you help learners prepare for one of the Cambridge exams, then you might be interested in their new competition: Cambridge English Teachers’ Competition 2012. All they want is one practical exam preparation idea, succinctly expressed in 300 words, for one... Continue Reading →
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