I hate the word ‘journey’. It’s tacky, unnecessary and it seems as you were trying too hard to inspire someone. Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to talk about (talk about a punch in the face).
I have been teaching English as a foreign language for…
Como lidar com as variações linguisticas no ensino de línguas estrangeiras?
Cada professor tem uma opinião sobre o assunto; alguns preferem apresentar a linguagem coloquial desde o início da aprendizagem, outros preferem esperar que os alunos tenham um nível mais…
Diversity is one of the most frequent topics in current discussions around education. Its various interpretations can also be a form of diversity, accepting that we may all have opposing views on the same subject. In this post I will be discussing diversity and hope to…
What language is most commonly used in online dating profiles? Chris Ożóg delves into the Cambridge English Corpus to find out, and provides a fun class activity download to incorporate these patterns into a lesson with your adult learners.
Students are people. They do…
I took a course during these last holidays which main objective was to focus on cross curricular activities in mainstream schooling. During the course, a whole new image came to my mind regarding our teaching system and my own teaching concepts. Not that it was all new…
It is back to school time and at this period teachers have the opportunity to plan some projects ahead according to the school’s schedule and group’s level. These kinds of tasks are a great way to get students excited and motivated about learning. Moreover, they can make…
A man in Yu County, China throws molten iron against a wall to mark the ending of the spring festival. The yellow-hot iron explodes when it touches the freezing wall creating a shower of sparks. Shot February 16.
Learning to speak English as a foreign language has…
In our last post we saw that you can bake chicken and potatoes, aside from all the sweet stuff like cookies, cakes etc.
Today we are going to see what we can ROAST. Curiously, both chicken and potatoes show up in the top 20 occurrences of ROAST followed by a noun, first word…
Quando lemos uma pergunta como esta a nossa tendência quase que automática e inconsciente é de tentar respondê-la. O desafio que proponho aqui, no entanto, é pensarmos no mecanismo que aciona este botãozinho ou talvez até pensarmos se existe um único botão a ser…
