It's the end of the school year at the moment and most of my classes have been badgering for "Movie, teacher! Movie!" for some time. Resistance would seem to be futile.... Basically, what they want to do is sit down... Continue Reading →
It's early evening on a Friday about 7.30pm and the end of a long week both for me and the poor student who's ended up scheduling her lessons at a time when the only other person in the school is... Continue Reading →
I don't think this needs much in the way of explanation! If you click the pdf link below, I've put together 30 different topic cards for IELTS speaking part 2 / CPE speaking part 3. I wrote most of these... Continue Reading →
Spotted a post on Larry Ferlazzo the other day about http://www.fotobabble.com/ - a "talking photo" service that "lets you add your voice to any photo in seconds". Exam classes anyone? I'm very excited by the possibility of learners having a picture task... Continue Reading →
Here's a brief lesson I put together for my CPE class the other day, though it's also useful for anyone teaching IELTS. It's basically learner centred and learner generated, with minimal preparation and is adaptable to either exam. The Lesson... Continue Reading →
I'll be honest, I don't really know much about Habitat for Humanity. I'm mentioning them here because they posted a comment under one of the blog posts and I just went and took a quick look at their site. They... Continue Reading →
An interesting post by Deborah Capras on the Business Spotlight blog relating to Microsoft's recent billion dollar purchase of Skype. She raises the question: Doesn’t $8.5 billion seem a lot of money for a verb I use almost every day for free? Which... Continue Reading →
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