This webinar from November 2018 is a good introduction to the concept of English as a Lingua Franca. The hour-long session gives an overview the following: (more…)
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30 Role-plays for TEFL
Do you want to bring some drama and creativity into class? Are you looking for new ways to motivate and engage your teen/adult learners? Are you on the lookout for a good value TEFL resource written by real teachers, for real teachers?
If you answered YES to any of the above…. Here’s 30 Role-plays for TEFL! Woohoo! (more…)
Review: Language Fuel online training
I love a freebie! I‘ve just completed a two-week free trial of Language Fuel. Overall, I give it an ELTplanning thumbs up. Skip to the end for my overall thoughts… (more…)
How sanitized is your coursebook?
Pronunciation articles for DipTESOL students
I’m trying to persuade our DipTESOL students to engage with some pronunciation-related research. I’ve hand-picked these five articles for their relevance to our context (well, the last one is more general), and I’ll be sharing them with our candidates this week. Thought I’d chuck them on the blog as well, as others might be interested in them. I’ve left in the reasons why I’ve chosen them for the candidates here – you might find they connect similarly to your own context. (more…)
Insight into a synthetic syllabus
Views are my own in this post.
I teach from a synthetic syllabus at my school and the following attributes are true of it… (more…)
My tree octopus fake news fail
Here’s one of my favourite things to write about – things that didn’t work! This is a request for ideas from Teacher James and others. (more…)
