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Tools for the 21st Century Teacher


Michael Zimmer's "issuu" guide to technology for teachers:  You'll have heard about many of the technologies that he mentions - but many you probably won't have a clue about!  In an accessible, handy one page per technology format, Michael explains... Continue Reading →

A Lesson on Linkers


This is a lesson that aims to increase the range of linking devices / expressions learners have available to them, and in particular focuses on five relatively simple devices:  In order to  /  so that  /  as  /  in case... Continue Reading →

Online Teaching Tool: Kubbu


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 →

Giving Feedback – 20 ways to do it!


Giving feedback on classroom tasks is a tricky thing to come up with ideas for.  Broadly, I think methods can be broken down into Collaborative / Competitive / Partial / Full.  The four methods can interact, so you can have... Continue Reading →

Guardian TEFL Q&A session


The Guardian careers section is holding a live Q&A session with a panel of TEFL experts.  The live Q&A kicks off at 1pm (London time) - so in about 25 minutes! You can access the discussion here: http://careers.guardian.co.uk/careers-blog/tefl-careers The discussion is... Continue Reading →

Twenty-Six different ways to do Gapfills / Cloze tasks


UPDATED - from fifteen to twenty six!  Many thanks to all those who contributed their ideas! Does what it says on the tin!  As part of a recent seminar -  I have collected, invented, developed and stolen these fifteen alternatives... Continue Reading →

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 →

To see what condition your conditionals are in


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 →

CLOP CLOP – You can lead a horse to water…


… but you can’t make it put together a successful  piece of writing.  The whole hoof thing and lack of opposable thumbs gets in the way of text creation in general and successful writing in particular.  Language learners on the... Continue Reading →

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