Ooooh, I'm musing on a Tuesday. That's, in my editorial calendar, not allowed ( did you know that I have one of those?  For a pr...

I'm a whole month and a day late.   Sorry... if you submitted a post and have been wondering where on earth and when on earth it'd ...

"Pick a card, any card. Share with us what you heard in the news today /this week/ this month..." "Interesting!  I di...

One of my favourite quotes is : The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren PowerPoint is one of those tools ...

Probably one of the easiest, getting-back-in-the-groove, sans materials, dogmesque lesson I can think of: Step 1 Write 2009 on the board A...

The decade of the uh-oh's is finally done. Hallelujah!! For me those ten years were made up of: A marriage... a divorce, surviving volc...

Confession: Christmas is not my favorite holiday. It's my least favorite. To go into all the reasons for that would be dull... I could s...

Is anyone wandering about the planet with your name? What do they do? Where do they live? Do they have a better job, make more money than ...

The other day when I was reading Nick Jaworski's blog postings on using the Teacher as the Narrative in EFL classes, I left a comment b...

alternative title: UP, DOWN, TOP/BOTTOM, CHANGES & NO CHANGES There have been some rather hot and heavy discussions recently about wh...

One of the absolute best supplementary books to use when teaching banking or financial types is Financial English by Ian MacKenzie. Howe...

(A Business English/EFL/ESP:marketing lesson) After having lived, worked and taught English all over the world, I've noticed that cultur...

A word regarding the following posting which is an attempt to kill three birds with one stone - because why knock down two if the rock in yo...

These days, at least over here in Europe, smart phones are about as commonplace as, er... um, desks. So let's use them to teach with... ...