What on Earth is that?!
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Okay so after seeing a picture of this creature you
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really really weird. Well a...
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Essential ELT Blogs you should read (in alphabetical order)
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How do you teach English? - Kaplan surveyed more than 500 ESL teachers from around the world to discover what tools they use to enhance their lessons. Here's an infographic they creat...2 months ago
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Steal this mix tape!!! - This is more of a lesson extension than an actual lesson plan. The original idea comes from the excellent blog by Kieran Donaghy, who I had the pleasure of...15 hours ago
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Using a custom essay service: A few thoughts - I haven’t knowingly encountered a student who has used an online custom essay writing service but I have read plenty about such services. My thoughts, as e...2 months ago
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Demand High – A Delta Experimental Practice (Simon Richardson) - This interesting article by Simon Richardson is about his experience of using Demand High as an Experimental Practice on Module 2 of the Cambridge Delta. ...2 months ago
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The Story of Sounds: Episode 16: Using /iː/ and /uː/ to locate the ‘tongue button’ - When exploring sounds it is always helpful to keep in mind this important fact: Consonants have relatively fixed places in the mouth where the sound is pro...2 weeks ago
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Welcome A Board - Have you got mini-whiteboards for classroom use? If you haven't, or haven't ever seen them, this post will be in part a warm recommendation of them. But l...
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ELF #4: Orienting your class to ELF - Finally then, my eagerly awaited (by at least three people) post on how I believe one could go about orienting one’s classroom to English as a lingua franc...1 month ago
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Apps are Not the Only Fruit - Make no mistake - I love my iPads. And I love exploring new apps, considering their range of classroom practices and personal possibilities. However, th...
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12 from '12. A variation. - I learnt about "12 from '12" blog challenge the day Adam Simpson posted it in his blog. Since my blog actually started from a response to Adam's "11 from...5 months ago
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Είσαι νέος το ξέρω… - Μια ανάρτηση στα Ελληνικά. Αφιερωμένη εξαιρετικά στους μαθητές που με άκουσαν σήμερα Είναι ένας χρόνος σχεδόν που έφυγα από την Ελλάδα για τις Βρυξέλλες....2 months ago
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Eva / Louis: What a wonderful world - My favorite rendition of this classic of 1967/68 is Eva Cassidy’s last performance at the Bayou. Did you know the message was political? I was thinking of ...2 days ago
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dogs, disasters and dodgy grammar rules – teaching the passive - A 20-minute exploration of how conventional treatment of the”rules” for using the passive voice (as, for example, presented in coursebooks or standard stud...2 days ago
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SMILE - a digital handbook - Last year I took part in SMILE (Social Media in Education and Learning), a project that I wrote about *here*. The project was launched by the European Sch...
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Ending the school year - The school year has reached its final stage, with the English exam already done. Students are dreaming of summer holidays (as are teachers). More interesting...
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Classroom Management with EFL Students (by Natalie Britton) - On the first day of school in Busan, South Korea, I stood at the front of my class five minutes before the bell rang waiting to greet my new middle school ...1 day ago
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By Paths Coincident - THE COPYRIGHT IN THE WORKS SHOWN IN THIS POST BELONGS TO THE ARTIST AND THEY MAY NOT BE FURTHER REPRODUCED IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT HIS PERMISSION Those...5 hours ago
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Something seems to be missing from my Applied Linguistics MSc… - (Hint: it’s not the linguistics) I like to think that I’m as into linguistics and theory as much as the next geeky EFL teacher, but the last few months hav...2 months ago
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Anglicized Spanish (British vs. American) - While watching an old episode of Absolutely Fabulous last night, I was struck by the way a British character pronounced the Spanish wine rioja. In Spanish ...
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Julie’s story: ELT Freelancing in France for over 30 years - This past week I met Julie Cummings-Debrot, a freelancer with her own company here in Paris – for a cup of coffee and a chat about teaching in France, co...5 months ago
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There Is an App for ISTEK ELT 2013! :) - ISTEK ELT Conference has an app now! Click here to download the new ISTEK ELT App, created by Elinda Gjondedaj and Andrew Asproudis! Related posts: 1...2 months ago
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Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff. - Are you kidding me? It’s the big stuff that one should avoid getting worked up about, because actually, you can’t do a thing to change it. Things happen an...2 weeks ago
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Fun activities for CAE classes - I've taught 3 CAE groups this year, and have tried as much as possible to make the classes interesting and interactive. Exam practice can be deathly dull a...
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A New Mantra - Last Friday I delivered a talk to a fantastic audience of English teachers in Brasília, Brazil. It was the final session after a full day of lots of intere...8 months ago
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Stories waiting to be told - At The Image Conference at Barcelona last weekend (June 8) I spokeabout three types of images I like to use and explore in class. The first was, of course,...4 days ago
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IATEFL Plenary – Susan Barduhn - Prof. Barduhn, who gave a talk about expatriate teachers, once said, ‘If English were a drug, expatriate teachers would be the dealers…’ In her talk entitl...2 months ago
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On Rapport - I do Bikram Yoga. There, I admitted it. Just to get that out there before we move on. I also need to tell you that I have as much flexibility as some thin ...4 months ago
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A Grammar Review Lesson: Focussing on the “Big Four” - I regularly talk to my business English learners about where we´re going with our course: what would you like less of or more of? What have we done that yo...6 months ago
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One of those usage guidelines that refuse(s) to be pinned down . . . - The *Common Errors in English Usage* entry for May 9 was this: *one of the (singular)* In phrases like “pistachio is one of the few flavors that appeals to...5 weeks ago
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A short guide to concept checking vocabulary - Reblogged from elt-resourceful: Back in 1978 the psychologist Melissa Bowerman observed her 13 month old daughter, who was starting to talk. (Psychologists...5 weeks ago
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Student-Centred? - The reason behind this post comes from a discussion I had in feedback after an extremely productive observation I had recently. The discussion led me to th...2 weeks ago
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#IATEFL13 - From my beginnings… (Part 2) - As I mentioned in my earlier post, Jim Scrivener is a name always associated with my early days in TEFL as I used to clutch to his *Learning Teaching *b*...2 months ago
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26 IATEFL correspondents ask... - Most readers of this blog will not know that yesterday I took part in a webinar for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Langu...3 weeks ago
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The Biggest and the Best - Superlatives Quiz Game - You are going to 1. do a quiz practising superlatives 2. watch part of a BBC Quiz show "*The Kids Are All Right*" to check your answers ...
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Behavioural Economics and ELT: Meaning, Acknowledgement & Pride. - It’s that time of year again, where classes are winding down and courses are effectively finished in all but name and teachers round the world are looking ...2 hours ago
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Happy New Year - Happy New Year Happy new year to my friends and happy new year to my family. Happy new year to those I am close to and happy new year to those I am not clo...5 months ago
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The Way Forward - The tentative response to the difficulties referred to in the earlier post has been to institutionalise the opportunities for AR. Before people were able t...1 year ago
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Twit to woo? - A year on and I am reinventing myself. Taking Lao’s advice about not wittering on, I’m starting my TTC on Twitter. Look for the hashtag #DixitLao and read ...9 months ago
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Research is not the intellectual property of academics. - I’ve spoken about Action Research at various workshops this year and it has been a wonderful experience seeing some people take the idea and run with it. T...3 weeks ago
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I hate exams! And you? - I hate exams. Both taking and preparing students for them. I wish there were a better and more accurate way … Continue reading »1 month ago
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A moment to think… - Hearing one has cancer, even a curable kind, takes one by surprise, to say the least. Once the mental adjustment is made, what follows is unexpected clarit...1 week ago
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June Teacher Interview: Cindy Moisan - This month, we have a special teacher interview arranged and conducted with the help of Mary Glasgow Magazines. So a big thank you to their team for int...
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Korea calling - Another great guest blogger, Mike Griffin is based in Seoul and is a key figure behind the blossoming #KELTchat, an ELT chat for teachers in Korea. He’s al...1 month ago
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Task-Based Learning for One-to-One BE Contexts. My Talk at the #BESIG Summer Symposium - Here’s the link to my talk in Paris at the IATEFL BESIG Summer symposium: https://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/p56ud0lz5d7/?launcher=fals...7 months ago
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Vocabulary learning, revising solutions - image credit: #eltpics @senicko This is what I’ll give to my students with their record cards on Friday6 days ago
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A conference at home - Yesterday I stayed at home and went to a conference. It was IATEFL BESIG’s first attempt at a large online conference, and what an excellent event it wa...
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A teenage kicks diversion - Just as a brief hiatus in the midst of this Confidence flow, I’d like to post a couple of links to ‘stuff’ I’ve done recently – hope you don’t mind. Hopefu...5 months ago
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The Art of Being Different: It's not easy being green... - *1 Green Days, Green Daze: Land that is lost now* Glorious. And green. (This is the third part of a story called The Art of Being Different. The first tw...
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Lessons with Maps 2: Europe According To … - This is a well overdue post from me, especially considering it was supposed to appear to coincide with the designerlessons presentation on “Classroom Carto...
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Teaching for Learning – Why Helping Learners Earn their Learning Matters - A while ago I wrote a text about teaching, and even though teaching is one of the key elements in lessons, learning is, obviously, part and parcel of the p...2 months ago
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Tool Alert: Online Teachers with italki - italki is a great online tool that connects you with language teachers around the world. There are two aspects to italki, one is the community of teachers ...
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Background In(ter)ference - Clipping Magic is a simple alternative to Photoshop for removing image backgrounds. You might find it useful for designing activities in which students hav...
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2012 in review - The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading, watching, and special thanks to those who have take...5 months ago
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Music, Stories and Magic – John - It is hard to stand up because I get so stiff when I sit down. by John F. Fanselow Every time I find it painful to stand up after a...5 weeks ago
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Apple Leadership Tour, Istanbul - “Today’s children see technology as an environment – not as a tool.” Helen Johnson I was invited to attend the Apple Leadership Tour held on the 8th and 9t...5 weeks ago
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Silent Movies - The BELTA Day Special Edition - Just before the workshop... On June 1st, BELTA (the teaching association of which I am president) held its first ever national conference. We were delighte...
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Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning: International Perspectives - I am absolutely delighted to announce the recent publication of a printed book called *Connecting Online for Instruction and Learning: International Pers...
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Are ELT Publishers going to make it App'n? - There is a tremendous amount of talk about THE cloud, but for some time now there has been a cloud of a different nature hovering over the future of educatio...2 months ago
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Each To Their Own. - It’s fairly typical to have different levels of learner within language schools. Whether or not you agree with the thinking behind this, it is common in mo...1 year ago
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Wrong Angle: An activity to practice /ŋ/ in different positions - Often a student’s question prompts me to create an activity. I see the need for a certain kind of practice, and I try to offer that practice through a sequ...1 day ago
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Listen With Your Eyes - In a multi-tasking world, it’s hard to do just one thing. I am as guilty as the next person when … Continue reading »1 week ago
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Teaching competitions and lesson polishing: would you do them? - One of the most interesting sessions I attended at the recent IATEFL conference was by a Chinese trainer called Jun Zheng. Unfortunately her session was no...1 month ago
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Introducing Tana Ebaugh and the Pioneer Training and Education Consortium - Tana Ebaugh and I met when we both began our journey at The SIT Graduate Institute in 2007. Since then, our lives have had the good fortune of intersecting...4 days ago
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Mobile Assisted Language Learning - English TeachingApps (1) - This is the first in a series of posts on MALL (mobile assisted language learning) apps currently available via GooglePlay. The *infographic *was created ...
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I can’t help it if all my Turkish friends are Çapulcuz… - First of all, thanks to Ece, who sent me this image. The reason for it should become clear in a moment. I think everyone who reads this blog will know abou...17 hours ago
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Extensive Reading, but what if... - Rob Waring is putting together an amazing new resource called ER-Centraldedicated to all things Extensive Reading. About 3 years ago I caught the ER bug. ...
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Maybe - This lesson plan is designed around a short film called Maybe by Jgrey and the themes of daydreaming and love. Students describe a photo, speculate, write ...5 days ago
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Where does the word mesmerise come from? - mes·mer·ize (mzm-rz, ms-) tr.v. mes·mer·ized, mes·mer·iz·ing, mes·mer·iz·es 1. To spellbind; enthrall: "He could mesmerize an audience by the sheer force ...
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Cool things that happened today - …actually, these are cool things that happened yesterday, since finishing at 9pm doesn’t leave much time for reflecting on anything except stroganoff in th...3 months ago
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SLA research: still in the shackles of traditional grammar? - *Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research also needs a lexical revolution to free itself from the shackles of grammar tyranny. Rant alert!*Photo by richar...
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classroom language: 10 things you might be saying wrong - If you’re a non-native speaker of English and you’ve recently embarked on a teaching career, chances are that you might be making one or two classroom lang...5 weeks ago
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CONFERENCE COHERENCE - *Making sense of the IATEFL Teacher Development SIG & Learning Technologies SIG Joint Conference, Istanbul, 26-27th May 2012* Well I’ve given it a few da...1 year ago
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135. Raining Animals - [image: itunes pic] "It's raining cats and dogs" - Do native speakers of English often use this idiom to describe heavy rain or do they use different expre...2 days ago
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Stop asking silly questions! - In my last post I mentioned a Telegraph poll which asked innocently: Does grammar matter? Other, equally unanswerable questions are floating around the me...23 hours ago
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Digital Storytelling for Younger & Older Learners - Digital Storytelling & Young Learners Picture this: …a teacher holding up her laptop or tablet and a circle of children listening to her and following...2 weeks ago
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June Teacher Interview: Cindy Moisan - This month, we have a special teacher interview arranged and conducted with the help of Mary Glasgow Magazines. So a big thank you to their team for int...
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Politics, comfort zones, confidence, arrogance, shots of courage, scattered thoughts, a bit of bragging, and burritos - This blog post has been a long time coming. It is sort of a diary and sort of a running diary. 12:34 pm on Monday June 17th My students in my “Korea and Gl...1 day ago
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Giddyup (better not yell at horses): Really, it’s all about TESOL-Dallas 2013 - Evelyn Izquierdo My posts have become more and more event related (Gotta do something about it and find the time and inspiration...
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IATEFL webinars - In case you don’t know, IATEFL (the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) has started a series of monthly webinars on di...3 days ago
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Saturday’s Book: “Exit Ghost” by Philip Roth - Bottom line – I didn’t understand the book. I first tried reading Roth as a teenager (Portnoy’s Complaint, I think it was). I was much too young. I didn’t ...3 days ago
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Only One Cause - “Whoa, Dad,” Doug said, turning away from his online summer English class. “Ambiguity strikes!” Of course, I couldn’t ignore that. I went over to check out...2 days ago
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Digital literacies 5: Remix in the classroom - "Remix? What's that got to do with English language teachers? Our job to teach language, not mess around with digital stuff..." Giving regular workshops ab...3 weeks ago
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Why I don't want an IWB (Interactive Whiteboard) - Recently, I have been asked quite few times about IWBs and which ones are best etc. My usual answer is 'none' and then I have to explain, so I thought, i...
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What do you feel are the key digital literacy skills that 21st century learners need? - Digital literacy has become one of the major issues facing educators in this early part of the 21st century. The need to develop students and teachers dig...1 day ago
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Settling for a compromise? - I haven’t written a post for quite some time and I’d like to talk a bit about my classes and the extent to which Dogme is playing a part. My blog is called...11 months ago
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Solace in the perfect conditional - I would have loved to hear you sing to me, underneath the autumn leaves of our favourite tree, looking up to the clear vivid celestial blue skies. I woul...5 months ago
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How to Teach English Infographic - Over at Kaplan International, they’ve been finding out how people learn English. They surveyed more than 500 ESL teachers from around the world to discover...1 day ago
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This or That Quiz Maker - There are many web tools that you can create quizzes, today I would like you to meet with Quizpoo which is a very simple way to create online quizzes and s...1 week ago
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Racist pronunciation work - I’ve never been a fan of pron work. Back in the day, students learned the symbols then spent hours in the lab listening to natives and covering themselves ...4 months ago
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An End N-1: Making Way for New Beginnings - In 2010 @thenerdyteacher asked if I would be interested in starting a collaborative online magazine with him. Of course I said yes! Project PLN was born. T...2 months ago
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Secrets of a Long and Happy Marriage: Free downloadable lesson - A free downloadable lesson, based around an authentic video. Selma and Kenny couldn’t be at their grandson’s wedding, so they recorded a toast- and some ad...22 minutes ago
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Icelandic & 17 Other Languages Added to Google Drive - This afternoon on the Google Drive blog it was announced that 65 languages are now supported in Google Drive. That total includes 18 languages that were ...
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What advice would you have for newly qualified teachers? - I recently wrote another guest blog post for SGI. Having been asked to share some thoughts on advice that would be worth passing on to newly qualified teac...9 months ago
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Irregular verbs revision with minimal planning - Ask the students to cover the board with as many verbs as they can think of. They should stick to the infinitive/first form, and will probably do this with...1 week ago
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The End - So this is it, folks: I’m closing down the blog for the summer… and for good. After 3 years, 150 posts, nearly 7000 comments, and innumerable hits, visits,...1 week ago
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Blogging with Students – LiveBinder - See on Scoop.it – Inspiration for tired EFL Teachers Resources & Useful Information on Blogging with Students Sharon Hartle‘s insight: Really good Liveb Se...1 week ago
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15+ Ideas & Resources from #TeachMeet International Online - On Saturday, April 20th, I participated with over 10 presenters worldwide in an online Teach Meet! The presentations were only 3 minutes but filled with gr...1 month ago
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Hunting the origins of “tantivy” - Dava Sobel’s book of popular astronomy The Planets reintroduced me to a word I’m fond of but rarely encounter, when she described Mercury’s “tantivy progre...1 day ago
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Bailout – how one teacher used this ad! - Hi everyone We’ve come out of summer break to share with you all a post we came across via Twitter on The Teacher James’ blog. We really liked the way he e...10 months ago
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Doing Delta Module One? Some Exam Tips - Part Seven - *And finally we reach the end of our short series on the Delta Module One exam. In this article we're looking at the last task in the exam : Paper Two Task...
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Naivety, slacktivism – a contemplation #5days5posts Post 3 - A recent Facebook discussion left me doubting my slacktivism and naivety. In this post I try to understand why these two things are so important to me. Are...2 weeks ago
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User:193.17.184.14 - Bob M blocked 193.17.184.14 (Talk) with an expiry time of 3 months(anonymous users only, account creation disabled) Inserting nonsense/gibberish into pages1 day ago
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Six years! - The stats: 1490 posts 1312 pages (mainly worksheets) 5378 comments about 5 million page views 650,000 page views of the 438 posts and 139 pages of TEFLtast...15 hours ago
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Free Ebook: The Little Book of Blogs - The new Play to Learn: Digital Games in ELT course and the eNetworks coursefor setting up online communities begin June 1st. The tutors in our courses cr...3 weeks ago
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Is it “is”? Or is it “are”? - Q: I recently wrote this sentence: “Is celebrities sending prayers newsworthy?” I went back and forth between “is” and “are.” Neither sounded totally rig...1 day ago
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Google Voice simplifies and enhances the work of innovative educators - Google Voice is a terrific tool for educators. Google Voice gives you one phone number that is tied to you. You can chose to have that phone number ring ...1 hour ago
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The PLN Staff Lounge Has Moved... - Please update your bookmarks and links to http://www.suelyonjones.com :-) image credit: jaygooby on flickr re-mixed by Sue Lyon-Jones
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Walk on the Wild Side - Want to try out something new in the classroom? Shake things up and get out of a teaching rut? How about taking a walk on the wild side of ELT? This book g...6 hours ago
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Another wonderful lesson plan from Film English - Here's one of the best things I took away from yesterday's Image Conference: a wonderful lesson plan to accompany the above video. I highly, highly recom...1 week ago
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Everybody LIES… - House…love you to bits! 8 BUT, come on! Everybody? 8 Yes, I know…I know: 8 Well…I NEVER tell lies! NEVER… 8 OK…maybe the odd, little fib…to “protect” other...2 hours ago
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Z is the 1st letter of their alphabet - The comment above from a dad about his daughter speaks volumes. For two years, I have been holding on to this story from The New York Times in my vault o...1 day ago
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Through the Eyes of the Student Tutors: Yeditepe University Writing Center by Deniz Aryay & Şehnaz Ceren Cessur - I am very honoured to have this blog post by two amazing young ladies, Deniz Aryay & Şehnaz Ceren Cessur, who are student tutors in the ELT Department of Y...2 days ago
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Attracting a real audience for learners through e-publishing - This session is about the benefits of attracting a real audience for your learners through the use of e-publishing tools. I will define e-publishing in a ...2 months ago
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Camino and pilgrim - “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah...2 months ago
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Infinitives after passives - Passive verbs are sometimes followed by infinitives and occasionally by -ing forms. In this post we look at some examples. - 1. Verb + object + infini...4 days ago
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Learner’s internal syllabus - While everyone seems comfortable in the lock-step chain of activities so far presented in the lesson, the student with arms ... Continue reading2 weeks ago
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Wordling up! - Using Wordle in a Kindergarten classroom I have always loved learning new things and the apply them in my class. And I love the fact that my class has al...4 months ago
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