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On the sixth day of Geekmas, some blogger gave to me: six games worth playing Welcome to the teflgeek Christmas celebration! Themed around the classic Christmas carol – but going backwards, mostly because it’s more like a countdown that way: 12 blogs Read More...
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There’s a really nice app on the BBC website that lets you figure out where you come in the global population statistics – for example, when I was born I was the four billionth, 50 millionth, seven hundred and sixty four thousandth, one hundred and sixty Read More...
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It’s not until someone goes that you realise the impact they had on your life – Steve Jobs was one of those public figures who inspired belief and achievement in others. One of my classes was asking if we could talk about Steve Jobs and his life, and Read More...
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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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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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Spotted a post on Larry Ferlazzo the other day about http://www.fotobabble.com/ - a “talking photo” service that “lets you add your voice to any photo in seconds”. Exam classes anyone? I’m very excited by the possibility of learners having a picture task Read More...
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I’ll be honest, I don’t really know much about Habitat for Humanity. I’m mentioning them here because they posted a comment under one of the blog posts and I just went and took a quick look at their site. They have quite a wealth of lessons (detailed Read More...
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The visual thesaurus was pointed out to me some time ago as a great alternative to the standard online dictionary search, and also as a great way to help learners broaden their vocabulary, particularly with higher level students who have a tendency to Read More...
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State of the World’s Mothers 2011 Statistics and Facts – Save the Children - thanks to Greg Fuller for posting this on facebook….. There’s a lot of information here and obviously the most interesting thing for any class to do would be to pull out all Read More...
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The Guardian newspaper recently ran a series of short stories related to oil, as part of a project to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster – (see BBC story for background ). Called “ Oil Stories “, the Guardian project Read More...
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Free Technology for Teachers: Trading Around the World – An Economics Game . Spotted this on Richard Byrne’s blog and went off to play it! A nice trading activity – though possibly limited language learning potential? But it would make a nice ending to Read More...
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Thanks to Tommy Holt for spotting this and mentioning it on facebook! Primary pad is an online synchronous editing tool – learners can access and edit the same document at the same time. This is the first tool I’ve come across that allows synchronous Read More...
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This is a lesson aimed more at pre-intermediate / intermediate level learners that “introduces” SHOULD and SHOULDN’T. Though it can be used to revise the language point if learners have met it previously! It is based around using Should / Shouldn’t for Read More...
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Anna Pires of IH Braga gave a brilliant seminar at the recent IH Portugal training day called “If you can’t beat them, join them!” where she looked at the ways that our learners interact with technology in their daily lives and how we as teachers can Read More...
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Michael Zimmer’s “issuu” guide to technology for teachers: You’ll have heard about many of the technologies that he mentions – but many you probably won’t have a clue about! In an accessible, handy one page per technology format, Michael explains what Read More...
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