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• 12 conversation strategies worth teaching

  By Pete on February 21, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  One thing my CELTA course skimmed over was how to develop learners’ conversation strategies. There seems to be a good amount of focus on conversation strategies in recent coursebooks. However, at times I find these can be problematic. Models of… Read More ›

• Review: NILE Membership

  By Pete on February 20, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  The NILE Membership area is a new section on the Norwich Institute of Language Education site. It includes various resources created for language educators by the NILE trainers. There’s new content added each month and (best of all) it is… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: environmental issues

  By Pete on February 18, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  We did this activity a few weeks ago as an intro to our module on environmental problems/issues. It’s a context builder more than anything, and introduced some of the language that the learners needed for their final task (produce a… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #6: the packager

  By Pete on February 17, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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… Editor: Thanks so much for this work. You’ve clearly put a lot… Read More ›

• ELT Twitter chats

  By Pete on February 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I did a digital reset of my Twitter account recently. I now see a much wider range of content than before, and have found loads of awesome EAL/ELL/ESL teachers to follow. One really useful thing about the reset is that… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: Celebrities, morals and ethics

  By Pete on February 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  This is a discussion task to introduce a sequence of lessons on fame and celebrities. One of the set reading texts in the sequence included some comments on celebrity ethics. I thought this was a good springboard, so after a… Read More ›

• Lesson idea: Viral videos

  By Pete on February 2, 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  This was a context builder for a sequence of lessons on viral videos, viral ad campaigns, viral marketing, etc. It’s similar to the idea I shared for introducing recipes. Anyway, used this with B1+ teens, worked well. Task 1 Find… Read More ›

• Materials writing news and views, February 2020

  By Pete on February 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ll hopefully keep this update going this year. Bit busy at the moment so here are a few very quick updates and some useful links. New releases Express Publishing are promoting a new book English for 21st Century Skills (Mavridi… Read More ›

• Book review: The Learning Power Approach

  By Pete on January 31, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The Learning Power Approach (LPA) proposes that teachers encourage learners to cultivate an array of traits which are seen as beneficial for lifelong learning. These traits, or learning dispositions, include various cognitive, metacognitive and behavioural strategies/processes/habits  – summarised on the… Read More ›

• Wordwall with young learners

  By Pete on January 29, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  I wrote an overview of Wordwall last year. Here’s a more practical example of how I actually use Wordwall, rather than just as a load of games… Well, still as a load of games actually, just in a more purposeful… Read More ›

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