I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings recounts the trials and tribulations of Maya Angelo’s life growing up as an impoverished black woman in the southern United States. Its story focuses on Angelou’s childhood during the depressed times of the 1930s and the war-torn times of…
Bloom’s Taxonomy can be a useful tool in course, lesson and task design. Developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1950s, it is an educational system that can be used to classify skills and their levels through learning objectives, which grow in challenge as the levels of the…
I had been teaching for almost seven years when I finally decided to give teaching young learners a try. Despite feeling very insecure, one day I was like, ‘why not?’ and finally decided to give it a try. So it was February, 2020 when I first welcomed my…
DISCOMBOBULATED: very confusedCODSWALLOP: nonsenseHIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY: mixed together in a disorganized or untidy wayFLABBERGASTED: very surprised or shockedDOLLOP: a large mass of something soft, especially food: e.g. cream/mashed potatoFINICKY: fussyDIDDLY-SQUAT…
through the new national curriculum guidelines
A country built by peoples of many origins, with several ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Brazil is one of the most diverse nations in the contemporary world. However, this diversity goes widely unnoticed by the…
Todos os idiomas são repletos de expressões coloquiais, combinações comuns de palavras (collocations) e formas peculiares de se expressar. Por isso nem sempre é possível traduzir literalmente determinadas expressões de um idioma para outro, mantendo o mesmo…
Las estructuras, el contexto y las intenciones comunicativas: el código y el uso en busca de sentido
Introducción: Las preguntas del alumnado nos obligan a reflexionar
Empiezo esta reflexión compartiendo una situación que se ha repetido a lo largo de mi vida…
O USO DE METODOLOGIAS ATIVAS COMO POTENCIALIZADOR DE APRENDIZAGEM
A educação tem passado por grande transformação e o processo de educar deixou de ser baseado na mera transmissão de conhecimentos. Nesse contexto as metodologias ativas surgem como proposta para focar…
IN CLASS
Get everyone up and out of their seats.Tell them you’re going to play some music. They should move around the classroom – walking or dancing (or doing something in-between). Explain that when the music stops, you will ask them to turn to the person nearest to…
