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• ELTea Time Chat: Digital Teaching Skills

  By Pete on June 27, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week, I had a chat with Del and Super from Macmillan Asia about digital teaching skills. Among other things, we mentioned: How online teaching/learning went for us in our different contexts Challenges and lessons learnt from online teaching Tools… Read More ›

• EAL Science: Command words/phrases

  By Pete on June 14, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Just a quick share – something we’ve been doing in EAL. Our learners in KS3 and KS4 are developing their knowledge of task types, both for in-class activities and for their exams. I’m doing little ‘command word challenges’ as starters… Read More ›

• Overview: EAL resources from Ellii

  By Pete on June 4, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  There’s a new section on Ellii (great site) for Academic Vocabulary. Here’s the blurb: ‘A content- and language-integrated learning approach gives K–12 students a chance to learn English and an academic subject at the same time. The resources in this… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #8: Ghosted!

  By Pete on May 22, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  This is a completely imaginary conversation. No characters in the convo are based on real people – I’m just bored and imagining conversations I might have with editors… November 23rd Dear Peter, Thanks for confirming your availability for our project…. Read More ›

• Research in brief: Communicative and task-based language teaching in East Asian classrooms

  By Pete on April 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Author and year William Littlewood (2007) Link to the review here or Google Scholar it. Overview A review of reports into the implementation of Communicative and TBLT approaches in East Asia (Primary and Secondary levels). No primary research, a review… Read More ›

• Materials writing news and views, April 2022

  By Pete on April 7, 2022 • ( 6 )

  

  Materials writing update ‘for the real world’. Sorry, this is in a scatty order but it’s all there! National Geographic Learning webinars I was looking for a link to the National Geographic talk on ‘intercultural skills for the real world’…. Read More ›

• How can the British Council turn it around?

  By Pete on April 5, 2022 • ( 8 )

  

  Note: I’m very fond of the British Council and I owe them a lot. This is not intended as a critique – I really want to see them rebuild their operations here in Thailand. This is just my idea. It… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: Population Pyramid

  By Pete on February 22, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Our Geography teacher used Population Pyramid in class the other day. The site includes population stats for countries/regions/etc dating back to 1950. It also includes future projections, along with tons of other infographics related to mortality rates, literacy rates, migration,… Read More ›

• Materials writing news and views, January 2022

  By Pete on January 15, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Not much to report at the start of the year, but a few bits and bobs. New releases I haven’t really been on the lookout for these recently tbh, but I did see Michelle Worgan’s book Move! For A1 Movers… Read More ›

• PGCEi Module 2 assignment

  By Pete on January 5, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve had a few requests for advice on the Module 2 assignment for the PGCEi (Nottingham). You can find an overview of the module here. The assessment is a 4000-word essay in which you critique a pedagogical approach used in… Read More ›