Here is are the most important things from the seminar which I did this morning for the IH Newcastle CELTA students. Link to the longer post on Twitter for Professional Development Sandy Millin on Twitter The tweets which were sent to us from other Twitter users (from newest to oldest): Thanks to everyone who sent tweets! [...]
I’m currently teaching a B1 Intermediate class, 20 hours a week. As you may have experienced, students at intermediate level have sometimes lost their focus when it comes to learning English: they know that they can get by with the language they have, and it can be difficult to find the motivation to continue studying. [...]
Here are all of the useful websites I can find to help students preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate exam. Please let me know if there are any broken links, or if you find something you think I should add. General www.flo-joe.com/fce/ Great website, full of tips, especially for Reading, Use of English and Writing. [...]
Last week I stumbled across an excellent photo article from the New York Times about immigrants to New York City and the objects they choose to bring with them. This is the lesson I created based on the article, but it is full of other possibilities too. I hope you find it useful, and I [...]
From September to December I taught an intensive Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) course, ready for the exam on December 10th. I had all 11 students for 15 hours a week, and 6 of them had an extra 10 hours. We didn’t use a coursebook, though I drew lots of activities from books like Complete First [...]
Really like the way they’ve put this together, and it’s fascinating for me too! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 25,000 times in 2011. If it were a [...]
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