Essential ELT Blogs you should read (in alphabetical order)
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Punctuation..? A review
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[image: A review of Thomas Bohm's Punctuation..?]
Definition
Macmillan defines it as “the use of marks such as full stops or commas in
order to write in ...
11 years ago
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The Noticing and Personalising Language Conundrum
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Here is a free PowerPoint presentation I made in collaboration with
Riccardo Chiappini. As the title suggests, we talk about how to get
students to notice ...
4 years ago
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Kunci Sukses Menang Slot Pragmatic Online
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Permainan slot online semakin populer di kalangan penggemar judi, terutama
dengan adanya penyedia permainan yang terkenal seperti Pragmatic Play. Slot
Pr...
1 month ago
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Training for the Unpredictable
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Improvisation by the teacher, both within and outside the lesson plan, are
part of responding to the unpredictable learning moves of the student. It
is a n...
9 years ago
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Active fast speaking enables fast listening …
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Learning to speak short phrases fast and fluently unlocks the ability to
listen to rapid connected speech. It is not unlike learning to play and
listen t...
5 years ago
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Welcome A Board
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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...
11 years ago
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Protected: Program Design: Principles Discussion Summary
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
8 years ago
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The Extraordinary and the Ordinary in the Language
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I’m doing a Course on Understanding English dictionaries from Macmillan and
Coventry University at Futurelearn.com (Link:
https://www.futurelearn.com/cours...
5 years ago
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Goosechase with Me?
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Unsplash
From online tools to mobile apps, there is a myriad of choices for
educators and learners to engage with. Consider this infographic on
messaging...
4 years ago
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New beginnings
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Hello dear readers This blog has been inactive for such a long time that
some of you may think it has died. But no J, here I am again, teaching and
bloggin...
6 years ago
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Hybrid courses
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In the summer of 2021, I had the pleasure of attending a hybrid congress in
Berlin: Die Grünen were kicking off their election campaign. The highlight
of...
2 years ago
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a question of trust
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There is a basic relationship of trust that needs to be in place for a
student to learn from a teacher, and for a teacher to teach a student. The
student ...
6 years ago
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ReadTheory
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I'm always on the lookout for new edtech tools to improve student reading
skills. Check out my Wakelet collection with Online Reading Tools.
This year I ...
4 years ago
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This blog is no longer updated.
8 years ago
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5 Innovative Ways to use YouTube in the Language Classroom
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We all know how engaging videos can be – it’s so easy to get sucked into
YouTube and spend hours watching everything from wildlife documentaries, to
offi...
3 years ago
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New Blog
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I no longer post here, but I have a new blog I have called The Trivial
Round. Advertisements Filed under: Language
7 years ago
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Career Discombobulation
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DISCLAIMER: If you’re looking for useful ELT content, look no further.
Seriously, stop reading now. Stewing in the stew Some big changes are on
the hori...
8 years ago
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Break
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Apologies for the light activity around here for the past year. I’ve been
extremely busy for some time, and as such, my posting rate has slowed
greatly. In...
9 years ago
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Julie’s story: ELT Freelancing in France for over 30 years
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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...
11 years ago
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You’re not from round here, are you?
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I was out with friends having a perfectly fine Sunday somewhere down near
the Thames in Berkshire. We were joined by a couple and the first thing
that was ...
9 years ago
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Learning the hard way (again!)
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Another academic year is well underway. How are your new classes going? I'm
happy with my groups this year - only four different levels, which is
definitel...
9 years ago
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The Day a Bunch of Kisses Turned into Magic
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It has been a long, looong while since I’ve last written here, in my blog.
And before the last time it had also been a long while. I could use this
post to...
10 years ago
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Emergent phonology
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I’m teaching a group of C1 students at the moment. They’re university
lecturers and the main aim of the course is to boost their confidence in
their abilit...
5 years ago
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7 more ways native speakers can effectively communicate internationally
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This article was first published on etprofessional.com, where I am a
resident blogger. This is the final part of a 4-parter. You can read Part 1
here, Part...
5 years ago
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This Teacher Used This One Awesome Trick When Teaching and You Won’t
Believe What happened Next (or how I learned to get learners talking in
fewer than ten photocopies)
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There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces
that you meet¹ What do The Japanese Civil War, Batman vs Superman and
“Tidying G...
8 years ago
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RSCON5 is almost here!
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I stumbled upon this quote from Lowell Milken and I thought it rather apt.
“The only people who develop human potential and character as a calling are
educ...
10 years ago
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Reflective practice and the business English teacher
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Business English teachers are a bit of an unusual species in the ELT jungle
you might say. They don´t spend their time with four year olds singing
songs ab...
10 years ago
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A Sequestered Travelogue
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*Notice: this is a bit off-topic, but I hope you’ll find it entertaining.*
Like most people in our region I’m stuck at home sheltering from Covid-19
and ...
4 years ago
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ELT Hackathon
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Hackathons have become part of the professional lexicon in Berlin. The
event, which can last anything from one day to a whole weekend and
sometimes a whole...
9 years ago
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When didn't the wheels fall off? #tdsigcarnival
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*This post has been written as my contribution to the IATEFL TDSIG 2017 Web
Carnival**- if you happen to be reading this post on or before the morning
of t...
7 years ago
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Dreame on
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The Ucheldre Centre have just sent me the leaflet with details of Ben's
Dreame fortnight - an Elizabethan-style adaptation of A Midsummer Night's
Dream - i...
6 years ago
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Links and Downloads not working thanks to dropbox
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dropbox is not hosting links or downloads anymore.
Try downloading the quiz files as html files here here
or everything in a zip file here
You shouldn't...
7 years ago
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Some thoughts on giving feedback
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This is a somewhat off the cuff post, having been asked by a UK based
non-ELT teacher as to how ELT teachers tend to give feedback. Obviously I
can’t answ...
3 years ago
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Rock Mclimbing*
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“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount
Everest, or to the top of your career.” A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, one-time
President o...
10 years ago
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A New Dawn
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The koan A certain Bowie, first name Derek, was beginning as the new
Director of Studies. He had a terrible stutter. The staff went more pallid
than an unc...
5 years ago
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Improving listening sub-skills with music
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In the summer, I’d done a few activities with music, one of which was
blogged about here: We are the …
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10 years ago
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The last post (I think…)
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The first post on this blog was written in 2009. It was titled ‘Disturbing
the Calm’, a concept which underpinned my vision and my work long past the
origi...
2 years ago
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Top Tips for Young Learner Teachers: Teacher Training Workshop
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I gave a recent workshop on some of the best tips for teaching young
learners. Please find the workshop video below. Enjoy!
8 years ago
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A picture is worth a thousand words
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We thought you’d like another post from Brazil…… :), this time from a
prolific lady eltpics contributor who really needs little introduction. ‘To
know her ...
10 years ago
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Nationalities
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Some *nationalities *have nouns for referring two people. For example: a
Finn, a Spaniard, a Dane, a Briton, an Arab.
For most *nationalities *we can...
2 years ago
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Task-Based Learning for One-to-One BE Contexts. My Talk at the #BESIG
Summer Symposium
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Here’s the link to my talk in Paris at the IATEFL BESIG Summer symposium:
https://connectpro10829081.adobeconnect.com/_a875541554/p56ud0lz5d7/?launcher=fals...
12 years ago
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A Letter to the Future
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Engaging students with creative writing activities helps reinforce grammar
in an enjoyable way. Here’s a lesson idea that can be used to revise
relative cl...
1 week ago
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Another year, another ELF conference
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I always look forward to ELF conferences, but since they take place in
different parts of the world, they aren't always easy to attend. This year,
howev...
1 month ago
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Girls just wanna….
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This post is related to a question I posted on Facebook on 3rd January,
2017. Nothing like starting the year with a wallop. Skip it if you don’t
want your...
7 years ago
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A Brave New World
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Downward dog with bum held high and fingers splayed on either side,
Stretching chest towards the floor, high on tiptoes, squeeze in core.
Back is easing, sh...
4 years ago
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Would you like to hear the good news or the bad news first? – A Guest
Lesson by Myles Klynhout
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In this lesson students will be encouraged to notice how they naturally
react to news in their own language, and highlight how they could perform
the same ...
8 years ago
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Rethinking AI’s Role in Education: Purpose and Questions
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I’ve recently attended an event in which there was very brief talk followed
by dinner with other educators. In addition to general conversations about
the ...
7 months ago
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New Viralelt Post – Do not enter
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New post (“Please do not enter“) over at Viralelt. Filed under: 1
10 years ago
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2012 in review
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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...
11 years ago
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The Bullet or the Ballot Lesson Plan
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The Bullet or the Ballot Lesson Plan Craig Wherlock (Greece) shares a
lesson plan he uses to encourage students to think critically about the
civil righ...
3 years ago
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Eğitim ve Eğitim’de yayınlanan röportajımız:
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ETZ17 bu sefer de “Sihire Yolculuk” diyor Eğitim Teknolojileri Zirvesi
(ETZ) 4. kez 4 Mart 2017`de yapılacak. Bu yılki tema “Sihire Yolculuk”.
Etkinliği ço...
7 years ago
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#ELTchat summary on Sugata Mitra and 25 Questions He Needs To Answer
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On Saturday 5th of April at the IATEFL conference in Harrogate, Sugata
Mitra delivered a plenary session that proved to be acclaimed and vilified
at the...
10 years ago
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OUP Webinar: Using Games for win-win learning
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Attending webinars from the comfort of your own home is a fantastic
experience!
*Image courtesy of google images*
This morning I attended an excellent OUP...
6 years ago
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What my kids teach me about elearning design
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I reflected (or, more accurately, quipped) recently on social media about
the benefits of being a learning designer for dads, as a follow up to the
sharing...
10 years ago
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Each To Their Own.
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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...
12 years ago
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Forging Her Path as an English Language Specialist: An Interview with Sara
Davila
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At a TESOL convention, you usually meet people with “Teacher” or some other
variation on their name badge. Do you ever wonder what exactly a consultant
in ...
3 days ago
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No Kid Needs 48 Pencils The First Day of School
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As an elementary teacher for 21 years, I know there were supplies I asked
for that never got used – …
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7 years ago
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Where do ideas come from?
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I didn’t want to write this blog post. I still don’t want to but events,
and the ever-grinding wheels of the ELT rumour mill, make it almost
unavoidable. C...
7 years ago
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Throwing Back Tokens’ Change of Venue
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Hello dear readers, My apologies for the confusion, but I have moved my
blog over to a new address, www.throwingbacktokens.wordpress.com. Please
click on t...
10 years ago
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I'm returning to edublogging!
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It's been around eleven years since I was last referred to as Queen of the
EduELT blogosphere, when Kalinago English had a readership of around a
million...
2 years ago
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Books I wrote…
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Since I first became a published author of English Language Teaching
materials fifty years ago in 1971, I have contributed to another 30+ ELT
publications....
3 years ago
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A move to WordPress
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Hi all,
A big thank you to everyone for your support over the past two years.
Realizing that this blog keeps growing and that the options for making it
na...
10 years ago
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‘The Myth of Multitasking’ Lesson Plan
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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short video titled What
multitasking does to your brain and the themes of multitasking and what
multitasking do...
1 day ago
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What is a swing state?
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The electoral college system ensures that even though US presidential
elections are national, the vote is decided by counting the number of
delegates from ...
4 weeks ago
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No, I'm not a 'proficient English language speaker'
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I’ve just been on Dave’s ESL Cafe. Not because I want to work 60 hours a
week in a ropey kindergarten, but to see how companies are wording their
recruitme...
8 years ago
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Revisiting Super Size Me
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*Super Size Me* movie poster [Fair use]*Freshly updated video-activity
based on a classic fast food expos**é*
The news of Morgan Spurlock's death at the ...
5 months ago
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Google’s NotebookLM: An Innovative Educator’s New Best Friend (and
Podcasting Powerhouse!)
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Google's NotebookLM is an AI powerhouse that can supercharge lessons,
engage students in exciting new ways, and even help to create podcasts!
Find out ho...
4 weeks ago
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7 reasons to learn a foreign language
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I didn’t choose English so much as it chose me. Somehow it crept its way
into my life and ended up shaping my education, my interests, and my
career. Tod...
11 months ago
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Stories behind Words: Hogmanay
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This post from the Stories behind Words series is from 2014. Happy 2021
everyone! 31st December, the last night of the year in the Western
calendar, is ce...
3 years ago
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4 Ways DELTA Module 2 Made me a Better Academic Manager
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by Geoffrey Adamson Words like ‘management’ and ‘human resources’ do not
come up often in conversations in or about DELTA Module 2. Terms like
these, it se...
1 year ago
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Why Should Teachers Blog?
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Last week, I was inducting some new teachers into our school: preparing
them for their teaching career for the year ahead. We looked at various
areas about...
7 years ago
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Partially Informed Notes about English Instructors at Universities in
Vietnam
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Long-time readers of this blog might not be aware that I left Korea in
2019! Greetings from Ho Chi Minh City! A dear friend of mine is coming to
Vietnam so...
1 year ago
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Stop in the name of love: no more autoplay, Mark, please
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OK. Yeah, it has been ages since the last time I wrote a post here...But,
you know, life, work or maybe my lazy fingers...OK. I have been reading
these pos...
10 years ago
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Images of the Week: New 2023 Updates
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If you’re serious about turning your blog into a business, then you need to
start thinking about ways to grow your audience. Depending on your niche,
the...
1 year ago
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Time for a Book: “Happiness” by Aminatta Forna
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I finished reading this book three weeks ago and I’m still thinking about
it. For me, that’s an excellent sign. I found “Happiness” to be a book that
was v...
2 weeks ago
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A Slither of Justice
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Agatha Christie meets Black Mirror. That’s how I would describe a book I
just finished listening to, called The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn
Hardcastle (or curio...
5 years ago
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Teaching English with Technology – does it work? Part 2
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This post continues to address the question posed in Part 1: Do digital
technologies actually help students learn English? I pose two more
statements and c...
7 years ago
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The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications
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The Teachers' Classroom App - By PeacheyPublications
This app has been designed to help teachers in the physical and remote
classroom.
- The app is...
2 years ago
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Teachwise - A platform to save time and reduce stress for teachers
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Over the last couple of years the teaching profession has gone through
huge changes and most of these have seen more demands put on teachers and
greater...
3 years ago
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The Look of Love: El Palacete Rodríguez Quegles
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The 25th Canarian Jazz Festival came to an end on 24th July, stretching
over more than 2 weeks, entertaining thousands throughout the archipelago,
bringing...
8 years ago
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Settling for a compromise?
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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...
12 years ago
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Solace in the perfect conditional
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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...
11 years ago
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Beyond An ELT Teaching Career: What Alternatives Are There?
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As an English language teacher, you might reach a point in your teaching
career where you’re feeling comfortable and confident in the classroom, but
you’...
1 week ago
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10 Tips to Use ChatGPT
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Here are some tips that will help you while you use ChatGPT: 1. Be
Specific: Make clear and specific questions or prompts for better
responses. Example: Va...
1 year ago
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Racist pronunciation work
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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 ...
11 years ago
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Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or …
"Hello world!" の続きを読む
6 years ago
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Developing Teachers with a Growth Mindset
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This is a guest post by Gabriella Lawson, Teacher Developer for Monash
College English Language Centre. Gaby is responsible for helping to
develop teachers...
5 years ago
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As well as being an adjective (a pretty girl, pretty flowers) etc, pretty
can be an adverb
- modifying an adjective:
- She's pretty intelligent ...
2 years ago
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Seven Mind Mapping Tools to Try This Year
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Earlier this week a reader emailed me to ask for my suggestions for online
mind mapping tools for her students to use this fall. My preference is
often to...
1 year ago
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What advice would you have for newly qualified teachers?
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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...
12 years ago
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D is for Dictionary
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(This post was timed to coincide with the most recent update of the
Macmillan English Dictionary, and first appeared on the Macmillan
Dictionary blog here...
6 years ago
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Remote Teaching and COVID-19
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Times of Change At this point in time communication is changing in
unprecedented ways that have yet to reveal themselves clearly. The COVID-19
crisis has b...
4 years ago
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AI Tools to Fuel Student Imagination
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“I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific
discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and
literature cou...
1 year ago
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‘How to see one’s own world’: Ursula K. Le Guin on writing style
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Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay collection The Language of the Night: Essays on
Fantasy and Science Fiction has a lot of interesting material on language
use and...
4 weeks ago
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Bailout – how one teacher used this ad!
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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...
12 years ago
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About This Site
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Who is This Blog Written For? This blog is mainly written for English
language teachers, although other teachers who are interested in using
technology or ...
5 years ago
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Language Matters: Genre Analysis - TV Programme Reviews
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*Example articles*
*1.* *The Guardian -*
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/aug/01/fantasmas-review-this-wildly-creative-comedy-i...
2 months ago
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My first post
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There are over 133 million blogs on the Internet. To assume that there is
something in the 133,000,001st is a bit presumptuous, so say the least. Continue
...
15 years ago
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ᴋɪᴛ vowel phoneme /ɪ/
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← Older revision Revision as of 13:52, 19 November 2024
(One intermediate revision by the same user not shown)
(No difference)
1 hour ago
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My most debated and commented on articles
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Not quite a representative sample of my articles that people have taken
most interest in (as most don’t have a comments function), but a mix of
ones with s...
5 weeks ago
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A new angle on an old word
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Q: When I encountered “orthogonal” years ago in geometry class, it meant
perpendicular. In recent years, I hear it used in everyday English to mean
“irre...
1 day ago
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10 factors that may (or may not) influence how successful technology is for
you in a classroom
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The list below — for the purposes of debate only — is for a forthcoming
workshop I'll be doing (yes, I know, I did say I'd retired, but I couldn't
resist t...
7 years ago
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The 2020 EDU, ELT/ELL and EDTECH Conference Calendar for Canım Türkiyem…Ver
2.4
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8 Sevgili Hocalarim, We have entered a brand-spanking-new DECADE…and while
it may not have got off to the “best” start… I’m kinda hoping that this
LATEST U...
5 years ago
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Mental health is health.
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Mental health is as important as physical health. In fact, are they really
different things? They are our health.
4 years ago
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Support for the Swiss Federal English Exam of the
Direktionassistenten/-innen Course
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Are you considering taking the Swiss Federal English Exam of the
Direktionassistenten/innen Course (Berufsprüfung
Direktionsassistent/-innen)? The Loras Ne...
7 years ago
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Principles for Meaningful Technology Integration
* Principles for Meaningful Technology Integration * from *Vicky Saumell*
Presented at *11th Anglo Congr...
9 years ago
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Giving the gift
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I may be writng from the heart of a woman and so writing for women mainly
but anyone can find something in this post (if you are looking for balance
and un...
11 years ago
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Top 10 ELT books never written
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In no particular order and without any criteria, here are (in my expert
opinion) the best books in English Language ...
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9 years ago
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