ELT Planning

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• Research in brief: Critique of BICS and CALP

  By Pete on October 25, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  BICS and CALP in a nutshell BICS and CALP was an idea first proposed by Prof Jim Cummins in the early 1980s. BICS stands for Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills, and CALP is Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency. Here’s what they are:… Read More ›

• Review: Work It Out with Phrasal Verbs

  By Pete on October 24, 2020 • ( 5 )

  

  Phrasal verb resource books you’ve used… GO! Okay, so there was a good one on the bookshelf at LTC called ‘Illustrated Phrasal Verbs’. Me and Sketch used it so often that the student’s book fell apart (only one copy –… Read More ›

• Materials Writing news and views, October 2020

  By Pete on October 21, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Just a few things this time. I’m out the loop at the moment, enjoying my teaching too much! Facebook groups for writers There are a lot of Facebook groups for ELT writers these days. If you would like to share… Read More ›

• Free lessons on Onestopenglish

  By Pete on October 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Onestopenglish is still free at the moment. This is a great opportunity to make the most of their awesome resources. There’s so much available on the site: lesson plans, articles related to methodology, resources created by the Onestopenglish community… they’ve… Read More ›

• All reviews from ELT Planning

  By Pete on October 12, 2020 • ( 4 )

  

  Russ Mayne suggested I should have a post or page listing all my reviews. So, here it is. It turns out there are quite a few. As always, all views are my own and these reviews are highly subjective! Before… Read More ›

• Monetizing your teaching blog

  By Pete on October 11, 2020 • ( 8 )

  

  WordAds… ah, go on then. I didn’t want to make money from my blog. I had my reasons for that, which were basically… I’ve always felt bad, kinda guilty about the idea. My content is random and rambling – I… Read More ›

• Varjak Paw Kahoot! (EAL)

  By Pete on October 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Here are a couple of game-based resources you could use for EAL learners reading Varjak Paw. Our Year 4 students have really enjoyed the book (I did too, although I didn’t like the ending!). Anyhow, here’s a Kahoot! to play… Read More ›

• Keywords: World War Two events

  By Pete on October 10, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Just a quick review resource for EAL learners. Our Year 9s were studying key events in WW2, including: Dunkirk Evacuations The Blitz Rationing Here are a couple of Wordwalls to help with reviewing the events / keywords related to them…. Read More ›

• New teacher induction

  By Pete on October 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I had to induct a new teacher at school once. They were fairly new to teaching and unfamiliar with our in-house product at the time (called myClass). I thought that listening to me ramble on for half an hour about… Read More ›

• Research in brief: Alderfer ESL Program Assessment Tool

  By Pete on October 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  What might be optimal ESL provision in international schools? Alderfer and Alderfer (2011) state that there is no unifying set of criteria to assess ESL programs in international school contexts. Their research sets out to provide one. The authors outline… Read More ›

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