The "associação portuguesa de professores de inglês" (Portuguese Association of teachers of English) had their conference last weekend and by all accounts a fun time was had by all, though I didn't get down to Lisbon this time. Some TEFL's... Continue Reading →
A nice piece from "Intelligent Life" on the changing nature of language - thanks to Rob Szabo for spotting it and posting it here: McKinnon Language Solutions » Blog Archive » On Language Nerds and Nags. Makes you wonder, just... Continue Reading →
Free Technology for Teachers: Trading Around the World - An Economics Game. Spotted this on Richard Byrne's blog and went off to play it! A nice trading activity - though possibly limited language learning potential? But it would make a... Continue Reading →
Pupils are not your Facebook friends, net privacy expert warns teachers | Education | guardian.co.uk
Pupils are not your Facebook friends, net privacy expert warns teachers | Education | guardian.co.uk. An interesting article from the Guardian on the perils of "friending" your students.... I have no comment on this particularly - just thought it was... Continue Reading →
For those of us who've somehow managed to let the whole thing pass us by, probably by virtue of being busy and not living in England, there appears to be a royal wedding happening this week... So - for those... Continue Reading →
An alternative to the work through it together option... Basically, you need two different open cloze tasks from a test book (or you can use the examples given in the exam handbooks available from Cambridge ESOL's teacher support site). You... Continue Reading →
Brave New World among top 10 books Americans most want banned | Books | guardian.co.uk. This is a slightly misleading and somewhat patronising view of American life, when you consider, as the article states, that this list is based on... Continue Reading →
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