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...4 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...6 days 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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Digital Explorations in the Month of May - Yesterday I could hardly believe that May had arrived. Almost mid 2013 and there always is so much to do, so much to explore and learn! Among other sit...
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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...4 hours 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...1 week 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...1 week 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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talking dogme (2) looking back - This week has been a fairly busy week, a lot of hours away from my computer screen for a change, and lots of walks in and out of shady Plaza Mina in the ce...1 week 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...5 weeks 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...1 week 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...1 week 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 Donne in OP - OP (‘original pronunciation’), as regular readers of these posts know, has so far been mainly directed at Shakespeare. But in the last year or so, people h...1 week 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...2 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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To extraordinary teachers… - Thank you, Anne, for recreating my post in this format. Tagged: change, Education, teachers, teaching1 week 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...1 day 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...6 hours 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...1 week 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 t...
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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 ...8 hours 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...2 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...3 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 ...2 days ago
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What is punctuation? What is its history? - Punctuation, as any dictionary will tell you, consists of the marks that dance around the letters of a text to mark clauses, sentences and inflection.[1] W...
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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...5 days ago
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Stories behind Words: oblong - I’m sure I’m not alone in having really enjoyed reading this series so far, and one thing that’s struck me is how often ‘Dads’ seem to feature in people’s...12 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...2 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...1 day ago
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29 statements about lesson plans - The following are some statements about lesson planning I believe I have heard, read, thought and imagined in the past few years. I felt spending some time...4 days 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...1 day 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...1 week 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, ...1 day 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,...1 day 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...6 hours ago
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Five Ways to Digitally Celebrate Your Students' Year - The end of the school year is here or soon to be here which means it's a great time to reflect on what your students have done this year. Here are five w...
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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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Delta conversations: Lizzie - This is part of a series of posts showing you all the different ways you can approach the Cambridge Delta. They are designed to help you find out more abou...2 days 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...3 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...5 days 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...4 weeks ago
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I didn’t cycle up the Liffey on a bicycle - Edna O’Brien’s book Girl With Green Eyes has a romantic line involving bicycles: Ah, the bloom of you, I love your North-Circular-Road-Bicycle-Riding-Cheek...3 hours 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 ...4 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 minutes ago
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Some Great Ideas for Teaching Digital Literacies: Challenge Winners - * In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we gave away and mailed 4 copies of the Digital Literacies book book to those who met our April weekly challen...4 days ago
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A matter of course - Q: In texting me, my daughter used the phrase “of course” (spelling it “of coarse,” naturally), which got me to thinking. How is it that we use “course” ...11 hours ago
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5 ways to increase chances of a successful #1to1 implementation - As more and more schools hop on the 1:1 or BYOD bandwagon in one way or another it is important to deeply consider proper implementation. While there is t...
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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...2 days ago
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IH Teachers' Online Conference, May 24-25 - This year, International House is celebrating its 60th anniversary and for its online conference Friday and Saturday this week there's a novel format: 60...1 day ago
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FIXing Hazırlık… (Pt 01 of 03) - 8 Have you ever been on the sharp end of a question like that? It’s a bit ‘rude’, innit? 8 BUT…that’s exactly the question (OK…I used the term ‘smarty-pant...1 day 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 Twitter – PD in Focus 6 - I will start with a short story… It was around four years ago when I first moved here to Switzerland and I was full of dreams for my new life. I had found ...5 weeks 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 ...4 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...4 days 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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