Scientific skills through cognitive and communicative learning & practice.
ELT and ESL classrooms have been the nursery to approaches such as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), for example, which has embraced the track to bilingual education by…
I COULD EAT A HORSE
“ESTOU FAMINTO, ESFOMEADO, MORTO DE FOME”
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
Estou com tanta fome que poderia comer um boi.
Literalmente, I could eat a horse significa:
“Eu poderia comer um cavalo”.
Não que a carne de cavalo faça parte da…
★ Gramática Básica Do Português Brasileiro - Para Estudantes De Português Como Língua Estrangeira
By New Routes
07/10/2019
A Gramática Básica do Português Brasileiro é uma gramática para estudantes da variante brasileira do português como língua estrangeira, nos níveis elementar e intermediário. Este livro apresenta uma descrição clara, útil e operativa do funcionamento dos aspectos…
Can you and your students explain why these are funny?
SOUNDS A BIT FISHY
Where do shellfish go to borrow money? To the prawn broker.
Where do fish wash? In a river basin.
Why did the whale cross the road? To get to the other tide
Where do little fishes go…
AIRHEAD IDIOTA, BOBO
Some airhead put sugar in the saltpot. Algum idiota colocou açúcar no saleiro.Alguém que tem apenas ar (air) na cabeça (head), sem cérebro nenhum, só pode ser um idiota
JERKIDIOTA, BABACA, BOCÓ
You stupid jerk! You ruined everything!Seu idiota!
JS: Could you please tell us first a little bit about your background and why and when you came to Brazil and decided to settle here?
NL: After graduating from the University of Minnesota in Spanish and French Education, I started an MS in TESOL, but interrupted it to…
Writing the review of a book written by Jane Revell is not an easy task. For one thing, she is one of the most respected and resourceful authors of our time. Besides, her ability to innovate and present us with so much relevant information is simply amazing. In her latest…
A Working Model of Critical Thinking in ELT
“This book focuses on the role of critical thinking in the English language classroom, showing how it can be used to achieve a greater understanding of individual words and sentences, of longer pieces of discourse, of ideas…
JS: Could you please tell us first a little bit about your background and why and when you went to live in the United States?
LO: I’m currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami in Florida. In 2006, I…