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• Timesaver: Quickfire questions

  By Pete on May 20, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Online learning again… Five weeks in. Need to keep things lively. Starting the lesson with these quickfire questions for my A2 level students. Nothing special, but livens things up while we are waiting for everyone to arrive. Here are the… Read More ›

• Materials Writing: Samples

  By Pete on May 18, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Question from a reader: Can you give me some advice on how to write a sample? Ummm… The free ‘No Nonsense Guide to Writing’ from ELT Writers Connected includes a good overview on this topic (see page 27, written by… Read More ›

• Materials Writing News and Views, May 2021

  By Pete on May 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Busy, busy! Will breeze through some happenings since the last update in March. New releases This from Afshin Vatandoost – a new general English coursebook series from Pearson.

• Jason Anderson and the TATE

  By Pete on May 7, 2021 • ( 11 )

  

  There’s a Mercury Music Prize-winning band name if ever I heard one. This post is actually a long one about Anderson, CAP/TATE, British Council and Project-based learning – that didn’t have quite the same ring to it. I attended Jason… Read More ›

• Using Loom

  By Pete on May 6, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Here’s a quick overview of Loom and why I like it. What’s Loom? Loom is a video recording / screencasting tool. It is available as a Google extension. I first came across this tool after reading this post last year…. Read More ›

• Text analysis, level checks, profiling, etc

  By Pete on May 1, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  A new subscriber, Gemma Archer, just asked about text profilers. I’ve shared this response as a comment but thought I’d paste here as might crowdsource some more ideas??? Help please 🙂 (Response) I use, or have used, text inspector (free… Read More ›

• Tips for writing secondary materials, ELTA Rhine

  By Pete on April 29, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Teresa Bestwick tagged me in a tweet about materials writing earlier. ELTA Rhine were looking for someone to drop into a training session for pre-service teachers and chat about writing Secondary resources. Teresa was going to help, I really wanted… Read More ›

• EAL: History / Geography reviews

  By Pete on April 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s another insight into day-to-day EAL planning. Usual disclaimer on the look of the resources – time restraints, okay?! History and Geography were tough for our EAL learners in Term 1. They are so English-heavy and there’s tonnes to cover…. Read More ›

• Get published! Working with Peachey Publications

  By Pete on April 27, 2021 • ( 10 )

  

  It’s about time I did more than just praise Nik Peachey on LinkedIn and in Twitter posts! Another six months has passed, the royalties from ‘30 Role Plays for TEFL’ are in. They’ve covered a dentist bill, a crate of… Read More ›

• 64 online resources I’ve used for teaching English this year (plus 7 others)

  By Pete on April 26, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Here’s a list of online resources I’ve either… a) used in the last year b) observed other teachers use c) been told about very recently and am about to try out Why? I feel like doing a tech vomit today.

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