What on Earth is that?!
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Okay so after seeing a picture of this creature you
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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...5 weeks ago
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Lesson idea/plan for FCE exam class - This is a very quick post about an enjoyable and interesting lesson I recently did with my teenage FCE class. The lesson begins with a challenging authenti...1 week 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. ...1 month ago
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The story of sounds: Episode 15: Starting from /iː/ and /uː/ - Let’s look at the task I proposed at the end of Episode 14/ 1.. Isolate the two different vowels in the words me, you. The symbols are /iː/ and /uː/. 2.. S...3 weeks ago
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Reader's Digest - The vultures are circling round Google Reader. Those two nice men at Google are pulling the plug on it in July. So I took the opportunity to jump before I ...
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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...3 weeks ago
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Sunshine and Change of Perspectives - It's been a long semester for me. Or so it has felt like at times. A question of perception, perhaps. With this feeling of a never-ending-semester, las...
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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...4 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....1 month ago
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Goodbye, Facebook - I don’t like friending. I don’t like following. I don’t like liking. I don’t like the faceless, fake culture of having loads and loads of super duper frien...2 days ago
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Sneak preview – seconds away… - I am lucky enough to be one of those invited to speak at the upcoming IH Barcelona ELT Conference, 8-9 February 2013. The event has already sold out, but ...3 months ago
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Imaging Europe - Two and a half years ago I was invited to join a group of teachers and students from seven European countries who were about to apply for a Comenius proj...
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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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The Little Girl and the Magic Words (Malu Sciamarelli) - In February, Malu wrote “Where do your stories come to life?” for Teaching Village. I’m thrilled that she has followed it up with an original story. Barb T...2 weeks 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...5 weeks ago
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“Button” vs. “Butter” - Apropos of a recent conversation in the comments, it’s worth noting that Americans generally pronounce /t/ in words like “button” and “Manhattan” in a diff...
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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...4 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...1 month ago
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Worthiness - Not a word that leaps out at one – sort of concertina’d in the middle and rather blurry vowel sounds. I’m so tired of it – not the word, the concept. I’m n...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...7 months ago
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crowd-sourcing: technology in your classroom - This week I’m tutoring on an online teacher development course discussing the use of technology in the ELT classroom. To kick off we’re exchanging some i...2 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...1 month 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 ...3 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...5 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...2 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...2 weeks ago
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It’s time to talk about TBLT - I came home from work today and I cleaned up the kitchen. Why did I do it? I wanted to, the mess from my dinner party last night, still left in the washing...1 month 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*...1 month ago
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On a question that/which interests people - A correspondent writes to ask about an old chestnut which/that I realise I haven't discussed in my blog hitherto. He asks about the relative pronoun that/w...1 day ago
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What's this? (game) - Game for beginners *You can* - play it as a team quiz (use a dice to move from 1 - 25) and answer the question for each number (like *Snakes and La...
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IH Teachers’ Online Conference #IHTOC60 - IH are running another one of their increasingly popular Online Conferences this weekend: or at least Friday 24th May and Saturday 25th May. It’s a slight...4 days 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...4 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 ...8 months ago
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Researching, reflecting and resonating. - (from the iTDi Blog) I almost feel like I should write a poem instead of a blog post. Poetry power-packs words in a very unique way doesn’t it? It forces …2 months 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 »4 weeks ago
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Provoking curiosity… - It takes a while before the children think of putting paper into this old typewriter to make it do something… They wonder if the flat disks beside it are t...1 day ago
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English Testing: Wall Street English eBook Contribution - Wall Street English (WSE) in Korea have recently published my first authored free eBook aimed for language learners preparing for English examinations with...3 days ago
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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...2 weeks 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...6 months ago
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“The Great Gatsby” Class Resources - There is a buzz going on about The great Gatsby. It’s of course because of the new Gatsby movie. I’ve seen so many links and resources on...2 days ago
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New Ways in Teaching Business English - Readers of this blog may know that Clarice Chan and I are currently co-editing a new book in TESOL’s New Ways series, called New Ways in Teaching Busine...
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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...4 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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Conference Collages - On Saturday 8th June 2013, I’ll be giving a talk titled “Photo Opportunities (Using Student-generated Images)” at The Image Conference in Barcelona. The co...
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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...4 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...1 week 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...2 weeks ago
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A Classroom Full of Poets - ** *Poetry is one of those things I rarely use in class, but whenever I have, I’ve got a great reaction from the students. For example, my Korean teachers ...
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6th Virtual Round Table E-Conference. Read All About It! - A link to my Slideshare presentation below. I do hope you enjoy it. The process of creating each new slide was very therapeutic. * * A link to all ...
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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...11 months ago
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Student Stumper 37: How do you form a question tag with “I don’t suppose”? - QUESTION: I heard someone say, “I don’t suppose you like that, do you?” Is that correct? Why doesn’t the subject in the question tag match “I”? How do you ...2 days ago
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Extrinsic Motivation Through the Eyes of My Son - I’m never sure what to expect when C starts asking questions. Awhile back he woke me up early one Saturday … Continue reading »3 weeks 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...4 weeks ago
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Throwing Back Tokens TED Talks Playlist (curated by Josette LeBlanc) - This afternoon a few course participants asked me if I could email them some of my favorite TED Talks. As I started going through the list in my head, I st...4 weeks 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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Sirja Bessero on the nagging doubts of a non-native speaker teacher - This is the first guest post I’ve posted in quite a while. It’s been written by Sirja Bessero, an Estonian teacher of English living and working in Switzer...4 days ago
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Make all the mistakes you want, but just tell me a story - Recently I had short post on the iTDi Blog about how and why I use literature in a language classroom. Like most of what I write about lately, the post f...6 days ago
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Mixtape - This lesson is designed around a short film called Mixtape by Luke Snellin and the theme of music. Students speak about music, write a narrative and watch ...5 days ago
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Which are the easiest languages for English speakers to learn? - According to research done by foreign language department of US State Dept Interesting that German is not in this group as English is essentially a Germani...
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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...2 months ago
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In context or with co-text? - Photo by @Mr_Schenk via eltpics About a month ago I took part in a debate entitled *Teaching Vocabulary: in or out of context* where I was on the team defen...2 weeks ago
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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...2 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...11 months ago
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132. Pronouncing ~ed Endings (with Added Romance and Horror) - [image: itunes pic] Some pronunciation, some vocabulary, some romance and a little bit of horror-movie gore in this episode. Hi everyone, I decided to teach...1 week ago
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Language and words in the news – 24th May, 2013 - This post contains a selection of links related to language and words in the news. These can be items from the latest news, blog posts or interesting webs...23 hours ago
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From Curation to Creation - This past weekend was a great injection of Professional Development for myself and many of the members of my PLN. The conference was a great buzz and I had...4 days ago
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English Testing: Wall Street English eBook Contribution - Wall Street English (WSE) in Korea have recently published my first authored free eBook aimed for language learners preparing for English examinations with...3 days ago
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Beyond #ESL and #EFL: Newer Categories in English Teaching - In my teaching and training life, I have heard a lot of excuses here in Korea about why certain things can’t or must be done here because, you know, Korea ...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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Tutorial: how to make a ‘flip’ on #TEDEd - Here’s a short video tutorial about how to make ‘flips’ or online video-based lessons on the TED Ed website at ed.ted.com. If you have any questions, you ...1 week ago
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A 40 sec. Ad Works for Both LOTS & HOTS - I learned about the educational value of this commercial from Kieran Donaghy, both from his excellent talk at IATEFL, Liverpool, last month and from his bl...3 days ago
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A Few Links - Stan Carey has introduced me to the new blog Caxton. I’ve been browsing through some of the more recent entries, on topics such as reflexives and whether r...1 week ago
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Digital literacies 4: Teens & social networks - A few years back my daughter (then aged 14) told me she was going out. To meet a friend at lunchtime. I asked who. A Facebook friend she didn’t know. Som...2 weeks ago
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Create online learning with 123ContactForm - 123ContactForm may not sound like the kind of tool that would be of interest to educators, but as I discovered when they asked me to review their online f...
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Developing geography related vocabulary - I saw this website today and thought how great it would be to use it in the classroom for developing words related to places and describing different plac...
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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...4 months ago
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Receptive Skills: Resources for Independent Learning - Helen Stepanova is an English language teacher, teacher trainer and author, currently working as a Business English teacher in Latvia. In this guest post, ...4 days ago
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Gadget Safety - Nowadays kids take rather more than packed lunches and books to school with them. From mobile phones and blu ray devices to Toshiba laptops and USB drives,...4 days 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 ...3 months ago
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Sharing Issue: November 2012 - Thanksgiving is just around the corner here in the US. You know what we are thankful for? Our PLN! You all are truly incredible. We are so thankful for...6 months ago
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Monitoring class activities - Dictionary definitions of monitoring include: To check the quality or content of something. To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting inf...2 days ago
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Every Stock Photo - A Search Engine for Free Images - The next time that you need to find some high resolution images for a slideshow skip the Google Image search and head over to Every Stock Photo. Every St...
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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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Ten blogs in ten minutes (IH TOC 60) - I’ve just finished my presentation at the International House Teachers’ Online Conference to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the IH organisation. All of ...2 hours ago
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R is for Repetition (again) - I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendos, The blackbird whistling Or just after. Wallace Stevens, ‘Thirteen ways...6 days ago
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Call My Bluff 3 Quiz – Definitions - See on Scoop.it – Testing Times I again revisit the BBC quiz show Call My Bluff.Two teams take it in turns to describe an obscure word, which their opponen...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...5 weeks ago
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You can pronounce “GIF” any way you like - An impressively silly debate resumed this week over the “correct” pronunciation of GIF. Steve Wilhite, who invented the format, prefers “jif”, and at the r...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...9 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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My utopia – #5days5posts Post 5 - This final post is concerned with one of my longest lasting obsessions: utopian thought. I think the roots of this mania are in the very early realisation ...5 weeks ago
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12 extended speaking activities - with 30 worksheets. This was the first TEFLtastic Classic I wrote about, and it has turned out to be such a classic since then that when I went back to upd...2 days 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...2 days ago
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Theories of relativity - Q: Is a group of people a ”which” or a “who”? Here’s the sentence I have in mind: “It has only been studied in chronic alcoholics, which [or who] have re...1 day ago
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The hottest posts that everyone's reading - Here’s the roundup of what's been popular on The Innovative Educator blog this week. Below you’ll see the top weekly posts along with the number of pagevie...3 hours 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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On the road… London and Toronto - First of all apologies for the recent silence. I think that, after getting seven titles out in just over a year we wore ourselves out! We are still accepti...5 days ago
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How do you learn all the prepositions in English? - Here's one that came from Maria, who attended a session I gave recently, and who asks if I can recommend a site where you can "learn ALL the prepositions...6 hours ago
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FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 03 of 03) - Come on, guys! Give me a break…for crying out loud! 8 I had wanted to stick with Arthur - but my in-box overfloweth…and not with stuff that I can repeat on...2 hours ago
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Toronto in May (uncovering the teacher plan, post 2) - I apologise for forcing you to read the last post with little guidance, but could you figure out the aims, measurable objectives and possible instruction...2 weeks ago
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Using Facebook – PD in Focus 7 - Thousands and thousands of educators around the world use Facebook to connect with other eduucators around the world. Some have two Facebook accounts – one...1 day 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 ...5 weeks 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...5 weeks ago
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Phrasal verb or multi-word verb? Is there any difference? - I have to confess I'm a bit old-fashioned and resistant to change. Like a lot of students, I'm used to calling those special (and problematic) verbs cons...1 week ago
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what I don’t do – part 1 of 1 - Here’s a very short series about methodology. So short it has only one part. Since it’s impossible to determine one ... Continue reading1 week 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...3 months ago
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