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September 2011 - Posts
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I just came across, during a further exploration of the Pearson ELT Community site, their idioms discussions space . There doesn’t seem to be much in the way of discussion, but they have posted a set of mini-videos which purport to explain English idioms Read More...
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A fact that was brought home the other day when a training seminar got rescheduled because half the projected attendees didn’t have Interactive Whiteboard technology available to them….. So here’s a nice post from Vicky Saumell’s Educational Technology Read More...
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The Voxy Blog has an interesting infographic for teaching and teacher development, examining the question: “ Are Flashcards an Effective Learning Tool?” . I suspect most YL teachers (especially those at Primary level) are thinking “well duh” at this point. Read More...
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An email from my friendly local publishers’ rep dropped into my inbox this morning, which I thought I’d pass on. Not because I have eagerly signed up – I haven’t had time to fully get to grips with what’s on offer yet, but just because there is a dearth Read More...
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A colleague of great experience in both TEFL and the UK education system, and whose opinion I greatly respect, once asserted that TEFL was at the forefront of educational experimentation and research, formenting new pedagogical techniques and ideas and Read More...
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If you’ve had time to look at recent posts on this blog, you’ll have noticed a series of “first lesson” ideas and activities… after all, it’s September, we’ve all got “back-to-school-itis”! Stepping back from the plethora of great teaching ideas to fill Read More...
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While visiting the UK over the summer, I was introduced to a relatively new BBC Game show – “ Pointless “, in which contestants try to score as few points as possible. Or as the BBC phrase it: ”Quiz in which contestants try to score as few points as possible Read More...
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Inspired by a recent feature on The Guardian website, which invites readers to share their memories of where they were and what they were doing (click here for more detail), I was thinking about collating teaching resources on the topic and presenting Read More...
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Back in July I posted a selections of 20 ideas and activities that might be worth trying out as you get to know your new classes this school year – and since then there’ve been a couple of additional ideas to throw into the mix: First Lesson Ideas / Warmers Read More...
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I spotted this one on a post on the TeachingEnglish | British Council facebook page – who in turn spotted it on the Voxy Blog . The infographic below comes out of the work of Mark Prensky and his concepts of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants – and Read More...
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A very quick alternative to the standard composition task “What I did on my Summer holidays”. Essentially, you ask the learners to write the composition (100 words? I guess length will be age & level dependent) about somebody else in the class. I think Read More...
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The two year old comes “running” into the living room brandishing a blue vaguely whale shaped bath toy that has somehow been liberated from it’s rightful home. She toddles up to her father and thrusts it up at him: “Daddy! Lemon.” “No darling, it’s a Read More...
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This is an alternative approach to the inevitable “what did you do on your holidays” conversation. Many first lesson activities and ideas are based on the premise that nobody knows anybody else but often the students in your classes have come up through Read More...
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