The Guardian newspaper recently ran a series of short stories related to oil, as part of a project to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster - (see BBC story for background). Called "Oil Stories", the Guardian... Continue Reading →
Free Technology for Teachers: Trading Around the World - An Economics Game. Spotted this on Richard Byrne's blog and went off to play it! A nice trading activity - though possibly limited language learning potential? But it would make a... Continue Reading →
An alternative to the work through it together option... Basically, you need two different open cloze tasks from a test book (or you can use the examples given in the exam handbooks available from Cambridge ESOL's teacher support site). You... Continue Reading →
Brave New World among top 10 books Americans most want banned | Books | guardian.co.uk. This is a slightly misleading and somewhat patronising view of American life, when you consider, as the article states, that this list is based on... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Tommy Holt for spotting this and mentioning it on facebook! Primary pad is an online synchronous editing tool - learners can access and edit the same document at the same time. This is the first tool I've come... Continue Reading →
No site with "geek" in the name would be worthy of it without a reference to comic books somewhere... So it's thanks to the marketing folks at Marvel Comics for creating this handy little Superhero creator: Create Your Own Superhero... Continue Reading →
This is a lesson aimed more at pre-intermediate / intermediate level learners that "introduces" SHOULD and SHOULDN'T. Though it can be used to revise the language point if learners have met it previously! It is based around using Should /... Continue Reading →
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