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TED-ED Brain Trust


Back on the 4th March, I posted about the imminent creation of the TED-ED Brain Trust who were inviting people to register their interest in the TED-ED project. TED-ED have now just launched the brain trust as a forum for all... Continue Reading →

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The Jumbler


A yaer or so bcak trehe was a Grdaauin aritcle ctiing sopupsed reecrash form the Uvtrneiisy of Crdmaigbe on how we don't need wodrs to be splet cerltrocy in oderr to gian meainng form ttexs, we jsut need the fisrt... Continue Reading →

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ESL TEDTalks


A nice site from Doug Evans with lesson plans based on TED Talks: ESL TEDTalks. I've only looked at the first two - "Superheroes inspired by Islam" and "My Green School Dream", so I'm not sure if the lesson plans... Continue Reading →

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Listening – The many uses of the pig!


This is a lesson based on a TED Talk by Christien Meindertsma, a Dutch author and researcher who followed the afterlife of a single pig after it left the farm.  Obviously it then went on to the abbatoir, but the... Continue Reading →

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Horoscoped


The fantastic people at InformationisBeautiful.net have just done a trawl of 22,000 horoscopes and come up with this visualisation of the most common words used for each star sign.  So do they really all just say the same thing?  Have... Continue Reading →

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Oxfam for teachers – global citizenship in the classroom


Oxfam Education. Oxfam for teachers. Brings global citizenship into the classroom. This is a great site with lots of resources relating to issues that affect us all, both at the local and at the global level.  Most of the resources... Continue Reading →

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CPE Authentic Listening


Tried something slightly ambitious yesterday with a Proficiency group.  I have to confess I took the original idea from the IH World website - they have a nice range of resources related to the CEF levels that I've been making... Continue Reading →

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