I was just about to turn off the Kalinago and go on over to write in How-to-Learn-English, about idioms and ballparks but just before I do that I just gotta get something off my chest.I hate the word...
Slide over to slideshare.net, EFL Tech-Tip -4
If you've been reading my blog postings for a while now then you'll already know that I'm a big fan of slideshare and even have my own page there.If not, then let me quickly introduce you to a super source...
Cardiff Online - EFL Conference Goes Virtual
Cardiff says hello to the world:Biggest global teaching event ever!On April 1st, 2009, over 1600 teachers and academics from around the world will descend on Cardiff for the annual conference of the International...
The Role of Pride in the Business English Classroom
At the British School in Tumbaco, I once had the brief and unfortunate experience of working for an arrogant pig (no longer employed there and no other word could describe this person) who thought that...
Tech Tips for ELT Trainers-3: Using Wordle for Vocabulary
Have you heard of Word Clouds?
Wordle is a great site that allows you to create word clouds out of a text.
You can use this
to pre-teach vocabulary,
do a predictive exercise on an article or a...
How am I doing?
Hi guys,Thanks very much for all your visits to my blog. Each time I notice in the back-pages that I have more visitors and an increase in repeat visitors, plus the time you spend in the blog and on...
Tech Tips for ELT Trainers-2: Be Brave
While browsing around the net, following one link after and another, I landed up in a Ning group called Classroom 2.0 which I promptly joined as the members there clearly know a lot about the various...
Where’s the love, y’all?
Part 2 of the Art of Teaching Conversation To Language Learners. To read part 1 first come here.Last night, after a tough day presenting a educational proposal to a rather tough crowd, I met up with some...
Where’s the love y’all –part 2b Art of Teaching Conversation
If you just read the posting above on how important motivation is as a factor in teaching fluency to your language learners and you watched the video of my class in a brainstorming session then you’ll...
Tech Tips for ELT trainers–1: Computer Hardware
Every Monday, I’ll kick off the week by posting up a training video or a slideshare on technology and the English Language Classroom. To start us off we’ll be looking at this video from the Commoncraft...
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