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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Stiff little fingers
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We’ve all got them. We all use them. Most of the time without thinking. But
how do you use them in your classroom? On Friday night, I found myself
teaching...
9 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...
2 months 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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The Story of Sounds: Episode 26: Discovering the vowel /ɒ/
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Example words: stop, hot, pop, cross, foreign, lobby, knowledge General
setting of /ɒ/ The lips are rounded though not as forward as with /ɔː/ and
/uː/, an...
8 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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Program Design Posts and Passwords
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Dear readers, I have had a few emails about the recent Program Design
posts, asking why they are password protected. The answer is that I’m
trying to desig...
8 years ago
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Quote on Learning and Teaching (#4): The power of knowing rules
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Here is another quote on learning and, certainly, to some extent, on
teaching. The following words are commonly attributed to Pablo Picasso:
“Learn the rul...
6 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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TESOL France 2015 – Paris and the English Teachers
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It is about 10 days since the horrible events in Paris, on November 13th.
We have all been moved beyond words by what happened there. We don’t even
want to...
9 years ago
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Global dexterity
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Andy Molinsky: Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures
without Losing Yourself in the Process. Harvard Business Review Press. 2013
S...
5 years ago
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So you want to be a Celta Tutor? Part 4: Set…
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This is a series of posts on the ins and outs of becoming a Celta trainer.
You can find the previous posts here: part one, part two, part three.
Pre-cours...
7 years ago
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Teacher PD Choice Boards, Learning Menus and Playlists
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In most of my technology training workshops there are teachers of
different levels of digital competence and it's difficult to find
activities that would ...
5 years ago
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How to use TOZZL for flipped learning
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Hello my readers, It's already March, and my Christmas greeting has been
looking at you for a bit too long, so it's time to write a fresh post to
acknowled...
9 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...
4 years ago
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Some comments on social media sites claim that English is irrational and
lacks consistency. Like Jonathan Swift, those who air these views seek
order, and ...
10 years ago
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Material-phobic Support Group
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Disclaimer: Material design really isn’t my thing. I prefer material-light
tasks and I’m not very creative when it comes to material ideas. Instead,
I tr...
9 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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A bird in the hand
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Photo by ALP STUDIO on Unsplash Another quick and simple task with minimal
resources. With my current group of teachers, a mixture of content teachers
teac...
6 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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#MyTEFLstory, a Picaresque in Ten Chapters
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*warning: this post contains self-indulgence* As you can see, International
House wants to hear your TEFL story and so, when Alison Sturrock of IHWO
asked ...
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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The Triumph of Late Capitalism
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Some contemporary leftists love to talk about “late capitalism” as if the
system were in its dying stages, destined to land on the trash heap of
history a...
5 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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Shakespeare's Words version 3.0 launches today
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The better the day, the better the deed, as Shakespeare didn't say. But
for everything he did say Ben amd I are thrilled to announce that we've
reached th...
6 years ago
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Links won't work after March 15th 2017 thanks to dropbox
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After March 17th 2017 all links on this blog will cease to work. This is
because dropbox has decided to disable public links.
Grab anything while you can.
...
8 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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Grouse’s Maxim
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The koan Pity poor McDougall. Every day the same thing. Every week the same
day. Every month the same week. Every year the same month. I wanna do this,
I w...
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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11 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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Aula Cavila UNLP
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Feliz de participar en una nueva capacitación en línea. Con muchas ganas de
aprender en este nuevo entorno.//
Very happy to participate of this online teach...
6 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...
5 weeks ago
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What are framework materials?
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Framework materials have been around in business English and ESP for a long
time. Nolan & Reed (1992) is perhaps the best introduction, but there have
b...
6 years ago
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Motivating teens: as easy as finding a snowflake that won’t melt.
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December 2015’s TeachingEnglish blog topic was motivation. And in
particular motivating teens.That is, I guess, ‘my area’ – I’ve been writing
on it, workin...
8 years ago
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What loneliness sounds like
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Image by Mieke Kenis at eltpics flickr
When he speaks, it sounds as if I have water in my ears. Normally, my
hearing is very sharp, trained over years of...
6 years ago
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Dear My Sixteen-Year-Old Self – A Guest Lesson by Mandeep Locham
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This class begins with a general discussion on what advice would be useful
to give to a typical 16 year old before continuing with a reading that
looks at ...
8 years ago
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Escolhas, escolas e caminhos
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Quando não ensinamos os jovens a fazerem as próprias escolhas, acabamos por
deixá-los à mercê das escolhas dos outros. Quem foi que decidiu que não
podemos...
6 years 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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Book Review: Talking Images: Idioms - by Lucy Holmes and Sharlene Matharu
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I am delighted to be writing a review of a newly published photocopiable
teachers' resource book called *Talking Idioms: Images,* written by two of
my Lake...
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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Are We on the Right Track for 2025?
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Today I heard a life coach talk about the need to celebrate the effort and
not necessarily the outcome. That felt reassuring. I didn’t hit every goal
this ...
1 day ago
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I Am Not a Rockstar, Superhero, or Dragonslayer – I Am a Teacher
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I’m a big fan of inspirational quotes, but lately I’ve become a little
disillusioned with many of the ones I …
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7 years ago
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Is this the end? Disruption in ELT
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On the way to Stansted to attend a conference a few days ago I found myself
(in the car) listening to a BBC radio programme called ‘Breakfast with the
disr...
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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Personalized Video Feedback on Speaking Skills
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I'm back....missed me?
Hope so, I missed writing this blog and talking to you all very much. I
thought I'd kick things off by joining in Vicki Hollet's E...
11 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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‘Bags of Joy’ Lesson Plan
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This ESL lesson plan is designed around a short film titled Bags of Joy and
the themes of Christmas and joy. Students learn vocabulary related to
Christm...
4 days ago
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Who is the POTUS? What is a FLOTUS?
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FLOTUS is an acronym for ‘First Lady of the United States’. This is the
commonly accepted term for the wife of an American president. It follows
the model...
2 months ago
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Yes, you can break a window with an ashtray (some thoughts on learning
ภาษาไทย)
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If you can see my scrawlings, don't read them. I’ve been learning Thai for
eight months now. I go to the Walen International School of Achievement
(two-f...
9 years ago
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News Quiz 2019 - Follow Up
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Image credits: Frankie Fouganthin; Milliped; SounderBruce;
under Creative Commons license [CC BY-SA 4.0] *Activities for reviewing
lexis from News Quiz 2...
4 years ago
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Google Chrome's QR Code Generator Moved - Here's Where to Find It
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Google Chrome moved its QR code generator. If you want to access it now,
here's what you do:
1. Click the three dots on the top right of your screen...
2 weeks ago
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Video lesson: James Bond rents a car!
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This is a video-based lesson for B1 and B2 students, suitable for both
teens and adults. It focuses on skill development and introduces / reviews
quite a...
1 year 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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The elusive present perfect continuous in the passive
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In all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive present
perfect continuous in the passive as a classic example of that which is
formall...
5 years 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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Three Fantasy Books and I
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So, what better way to escape reality and dive into a fantasy book? Makes
sense, doesn’t it? Well… I began with a book that got good reviews
...
1 day ago
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Grover and the Excellent Idea
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It’s been called “the new Laurel vs. Yanny“: A six-second video clip
from Sesame Street in which Grover expresses his enthusiastic approval for
an idea tha...
5 years ago
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Teaching English with Technology – does it work? Part 1
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If you've had any contact with youngsters over the last few years, you'll
have noticed that they seem to spend a significant amount of their time
glued to ...
7 years ago
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Recap for enouraging reflection on learning
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One of the true keys to learning and developing any ability is the
willingness and capacity to reflect on what we have learned.
So how can we encourage o...
7 years ago
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Actively Learn - A Huge Resource of Ready-Made Interactive Learning for
English Language Learners
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Actively Learn isn’t just a great source of learning content for grades 6
through to 12, though if you are teaching adult learners much of the grade
12 co...
4 years ago
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La Marea, a restaurant review
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It is a strange place to have a restaurant, I thought. Although you can see
the sea, a very busy thoroughfare, known as Avenida Marítima, which leads
to ...
9 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’...
5 weeks 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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Is it true that growth mindset ‘doesn’t actually work’?
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Growth mindset has become something of a buzzword over the last few years.
While you would have to have been living under a rock not to have heard the
term...
5 years ago
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Random thoughts on 'Kiss me quick'
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Preparing a possible post on flat adverbs (adverbs that take the same form
as their adjective equivalents) I started wondering about the origins of
the ex...
10 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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C is for Creativity
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I’ve just come back from a conference, the theme of which was creativity –
a conference for teachers of Arabic, as it happens. I’m not a speaker of
Arabic,...
7 years ago
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The art of gathering… even for exams
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Exam time is here… again Exams are on my mind at the moment. Exams are
often on my mind, in fact but this period in the summer is one which is
particularly...
6 years ago
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Make a Difference with Your Device! 10+ Websites and Apps to Inspire
Students to Give
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Make a Difference with Your Device! 10+ Websites and Apps to Inspire
Students to Give by Shelly Sanchez Terrell, @ShellTerrell #Digi
2 weeks 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...
2 months 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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Teaching Receptive Skills - A Subskills Approach
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Does the approach to teaching reading and listening currently used in the
majority of textbooks really help our learners? This article includes
materials ...
8 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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Thorndike
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10 hours 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...
2 months ago
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A stink over ‘odoriferous’
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Q: I used to consider “odoriferous” a barbarous lengthening of “odiferous.”
I was in my 30s when I deigned to look it up and discovered that the
shorteni...
5 days 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...
8 years ago
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Corruption, Bribery & Graft in the Busyness of ELT…
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In Turkish there is a little saying that, at first sight, looks quite
innocent – ‘…bal tutan parmağını yalar’! In English, it translates
literally as ‘he w...
6 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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Seven – Επτά – Sieben
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Seven. Επτά. Sieben. It is that time of the year again! Seven years of
blogging – sometimes often, sometimes not so often… A few weeks ago, Doug
Peterson w...
8 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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