I've recently just finished teaching an Elementary business group, as part of which some extensive record keeping was required, and for the first time I actually kept a bibliography for the course. It makes interesting reading and what struck me... Continue Reading →
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 81,000 times in 2012. If it were... Continue Reading →
The Cambridge Journal "Language Teaching" is offering access to "the 10 most downloaded papers" of 2012 - without charge! The articles are: So to get hold of the articles just follow the links below (which I just cut and past... Continue Reading →
In his webinar at the recent International House Teachers' Online Conference, Shaun Wilden mentioned Muzy.com. Muzy is one of my many "takeaways" from Shaun's session - and for want of a better description is an online photo collage generator. You... Continue Reading →
Many years ago I had something of a disagreement with a colleague who, in a class I had watched, had the learners read aloud from a chapter of Roald Dahl's autobiography "Going Solo". Paragraph by paragraph, they went round the... Continue Reading →
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 →
This weekend - or at least Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd November - sees the third IH Teachers' Online Conference, a collection of about 20 webinars hosted by the International House World Organisation and available to all, completely free! Yep... Continue Reading →
As mentioned previously, I'm making more of a focus on vocabulary this year, and one of the things I'm going to be working with is the vocabulary box. Now this is obviously not a new idea and it's not even... Continue Reading →
Though in actual fact there have been several starts and beginnings since the end of August - I started work again on the 3rd September, #ELTChat kicked off again on the 12th, and classes started off again on 17th September... Continue Reading →
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