We’re excited to bring you a new series of graded Readers that is sure to motivate even the most reluctant learners.Based on successful movies and with carefully graded language, Marvel’s epic stories and unforgettable characters become accessible to learners of…
Emojis are more popular now than ever before! But how can you incorporate this medium into language teaching? With the help of online learning expert, Lindsay Clandfield, we’ve put together an emoji lesson pack. It consists of a lesson plan, an emoji poster and a worksheet…
Techniques, methods and approaches: first things first!
There probably isn’t a topic less frequently associated with the canons of early in-service ELT teacher training courses than that of methods, approaches, techniques and their differences, similarities and…
FOCUS Speaking and Listening; Vocabulary, review of useful conversational phrases
LEVEL Low intermediate–Advanced
TIME 10–15 minutes to set it up
MATERIALS Have plenty of strips of coloured paper. Make a list of words and phrases that have come up recently and…
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a term coined by a group of scholars led by Dr. David. Marsh in 1994 in Europe, inaugurated a new era for language learning and teaching worldwide.
Although most of the concepts the term embraces are nothing new, the fact…
Soon to be a major motion picture!
Winner of the Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller
This stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of…
The Southern Cone TESOL Conference is the confluence – as this year’s theme alludes to – of teachers’ associations in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. Every two years, one of the associations is in charge of putting together a conference such as this…
Has the fun has gone out of teaching? Do you feel you are giving your classes on auto-pilot? If so, this is a book for you. For experienced and inexperienced teachers alike, Thinking in the EFL Class (in the beautifully-produced Helbling The Resourceful Teacher Series) is a…
Books, bells, desks, students sitting in rows, teachers talking and writing on blackboards. This has been going on for centuries and, although teachers and experts have stated repeatedly that urgent changes need to be made, we still can’t seem to shift away from the…
