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Archive for September, 2011

Twitter for Professional Development

Today I’m doing another introduction to the world of Twitter and blogs, this time for students following the DELTA at IH Newcastle. For those of you who follow my blog, you’ll know that I’ve done a few of these now, and I’m trying to refine the presentation to make it as useful as possible. This [...]

Truths and Lies

Dave Dodgson recently put out a blog challenge based on the classic truth and lies ‘getting to know you’ activity. Here’s an audioboo with me telling you three true things and two lies about myself. Which do you think are which? Enjoy!

Joining the Teaching Village

I’ve just written a post for Barbara Sakamoto over at Teaching Village about the differences between teaching in Europe and in the UK. Even if you’re not interested in my post, I would heartily recommend taking a look at her blog as there are so many great contributions for teachers all over the world. Enjoy!

Present Simple / Present Continuous

Using these two tenses together still causes my students lots of problems. It took me ages to find a good activity to practise them that didn’t involve gap fills and was challenging enough for upper intermediate level students, but the search was worth it. The one I found was taken from the Reward Upper Intermediate [...]

FCE Speaking (Paper 5) Part 1

I’ve just started teaching a Cambridge FCE group, so expect to see a lot of posts about my lessons over the next few months (they take their exam at the end of November). Hopefully I’ll be able to share some of the ideas I’ve been using and get some in return For the first session I [...]

Team teaching

I had my first experience of team teaching today, and I really enjoyed it (I hope Flo did too!) Due to the (planned!) demands of Monday morning placement testing, Flo and I each had 6 Elementary level students, with only one classroom. The groups were merged and we taught them together. Unfortunately, we didn’t have [...]

Homework (an #eltchat summary)

This is a summary from the 9p.m. BST #eltchat from Wednesday 31st August 2011. To find out more about what #eltchat is and how to join in please go to the bottom of the post. What can we call an effective piece of homework? Do you believe homework is important for English language learners? Homework [...]

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