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• Materials Development Task 2: Deficiency vs difference

  By Pete on February 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a new series of blog posts for teachers looking to become materials writers. It aims to help future writers explore topics and issues in writing, encourage deeper insight into the content of published materials, and promote a principled… Read More ›

• Materials Development Task 1: absence and presence

  By Pete on January 30, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  This is a new series of blog posts for teachers looking to become materials writers. It aims to help future writers explore topics and issues in writing, encourage deeper insight into the content of published materials, and promote a principled… Read More ›

• Wordwall assignments

  By Pete on January 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Yes, another Wordwall post. No, I’m not on commission. It’s just a great tool. I forgot to mention the ‘Set Assignments’ feature in my previous posts. It’s a really useful diagnostic tool. Make your game. Click to share it and… Read More ›

• Jamboard (so far)

  By Pete on January 19, 2021 • ( 4 )

  

  Jamboard mentioned a lot recently. I decided to give it a go with my Secondary classes. Started using it last week so this is all new to me. Early thoughts. Jamboard versus (e.g.) whiteboard.fi This was the first step for… Read More ›

• Course review: PGCEi

  By Pete on January 16, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  This review is for the PGCEi from the University of Nottingham. It’s a bit general – see links for more details. Overview of modules There are 3 modules on this course.

• 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 ›

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