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…
JS: First of all, John, I would like to thank you on behalf of New Routes and all our readers for having been a regular and important contributor to the magazine since 1999 (Issue numbers 7, 31, 34, 51, 54 and now 63). Your articles covered a very wide range of topics.
JS: In your years of experience as a teacher, teacher educator and writer, how have your beliefs regarding teaching and learning changed? Has any paradigm shifted along the way?
JH: I think my belief (at the beginning) that everything was reducible to fairly…
SLEAZEBAGPESSOA DESONESTA, IMORAL, INESCRUPULOSA; SAFADO, SACANA
He’s a real sleazebag.Ele é muito safado.
Sleazebag vem da palavra sleazy, que significa sujo, desonesto, imoral. Também se diz sleazeball ou sleaze.
A PAIN IN THE ASS/BUTT (US)UM PÉ NO…
FOCUS Speaking: Past simple of irregular verbs
LEVEL Lower intermediate and above
TIME 20-30 minutes
PREPARATION Make photocopies or prepare a slide of a word cloud (see below)
IN CLASS
Prepare a word cloud (see www.wordle.net) using words for a…
Research has shown that extensive reading is one of the best ways to increase competence in a foreign language. For extensive reading to work students have to understand and enjoy the reading, and have to read in large amounts. If students have access to books that are at…
This month I would like to tell you about three British poets, who are quite different from each other. These talented individuals who have added rich colour to the British literary scene are: Dr John Cooper Clarke, who started doing gigs in folk clubs in the early 1970s…
