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 →
This is a BBC Radio 4 documentary by Rory Bremner on how ADHD affects adults as well as children and what it can be like for all involved. Compelling listening and required material for anyone involved in education! The one... Continue Reading →
It's almost exam time again - hence the recent trend in teflgeek posts! So here's a lesson on CAE writing, (though with some slight adaptation it'll work for FCE / CPE as well). At this stage, it's probably best used... Continue Reading →
A lot of teachers think about education from the point of view of what needs to be changed and how we can make both the teaching and learning experience better. In recent years paradigms of education have altered, flexed and... 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 →
This post has come out of a challenge posted by Marisa Constantinides on TEFL Matters: namely "to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of... Continue Reading →
A relatively simple way of dealing with multiple choice cloze tasks in the classroom: Take one multiple choice cloze task, possibly one like this FCE style task found via a google image search, or just one from your coursebook. Before... Continue Reading →
Spotted on Carla Arena's Collablogatorium - Superlame! is a tool that lets you upload photos (currently only from your PC - no URL grabs) and add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and suchlike. With some creative use of the speech bubble boxes,... Continue Reading →
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