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• Materials Writing news and views, January 2021

  By Pete on January 14, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Hi all. Short one. Diversity features quite a bit. New releases Another offering from the George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of ELT, this time via Waygooze Press. Other than that, I’ve haven’t seen much released. I’ve been reading some of… Read More ›

• Fluency and fun: Hidden words

  By Pete on January 12, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s a quick speaking activity for Primary EAL. A good one for Friday afternoon fun. Check out this ‘Hidden Words‘ post on Bored Panda. Is just a load of illustrations with six hidden words in each. Get the students to… Read More ›

• Reading tasks for homework

  By Pete on January 11, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  Hiya, hope online learning is going well. Here are some random reading tasks I set for homework. Each student chooses one of these to do a week. These are in a big folder on my desk, but they’ll be adapted… Read More ›

• Self-study suggestions handout

  By Pete on January 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Lockdown again 😦 Here’s a handout I gave to learners for self-study over Christmas. Might be useful now seeing as we’re going back to online learning. Ha, not as a handout obvs… Just the image! Cheers.

• Materials writing and pub quizzes

  By Pete on January 5, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Before lockdown I was an avid pub quizzer. It’s the perfect hobby for a materials writer because we accumulate tons of useless facts when researching articles. Here’s a list of some random topics I’ve written texts on in the last,… Read More ›

• Top 10 reads from the PGCEi

  By Pete on January 3, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  The PGCEi was full of great reads. Here were the articles and chapters I most enjoyed from the course, all of which were part of the core content. I’ll find as many open access links as I can! 10 Roberts… Read More ›

• Year in review

  By Pete on December 20, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  Last blog post of 2020. Here’s how the year went… January: Handed in my notice at British Council. Started Module 2 of the PGCEi. Goaded a few people on Twitter, felt guilty, stopped using Twitter. For a day.

• How to get a PGCEi Distinction

  By Pete on December 12, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  I’ve just finished a PGCEi through University of Nottingham. I got a mark of 78 for each of the three modules, which basically means ‘your writing is okay, but your stuff’s not really a contribution to the field or anything;… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #7: circles

  By Pete on November 29, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  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… Lead-in Work with a partner. Perform a dialogue based on the following… Read More ›

• British Council Video Zone

  By Pete on November 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Here are some short activities I wrote for British Council Video Zone last year. They were quite fun to write, quick too. No full lessons, just springboards I guess. I hope you find something useful. Plenty more video-based resources on… Read More ›

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