I first watched Ken Robinson's TED talk - "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" some months ago - a thought provoking examination of the aims of the educational establishment. It has influenced my thinking about the aims of teaching quite heavily, though... Continue Reading →
“Teacher No!” “Teacher, I have three tests this week!” Chances are, you’ve probably experienced the chorus of protest and dismay as you blithely announce the homework task of the day. Or alternatively as you ask your learners to present the... Continue Reading →
This website has the potential to be an invaluable online teaching tool and is worth checking out! I only came across this the other day, but they've been around for a while and further research reveals that Larry Ferlazzo mentions this... Continue Reading →
It's a slightly strange phrase that - dependent prepositions - gives you the slight air of a bunch of small words hanging around a much larger word who feeds and clothes them and goes and and earns a wage with... Continue Reading →
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 →
Covering a colleague's class today and opened the book at the required page to see: "Grammar - conditionals". Hmm. So what's attached here is what I came up with as a bit of a "Conditionals review", which (with any luck)... Continue Reading →
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