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Reading Aloud

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Doing presentations with the pre-sessional students is difficult…

Academic Reading Circles (ARC)

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This year we’ve started using Academic Reading Circles.…

Improving Fluency – The 4/3/2 technique, self-assessment and soliquizing

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I’m working on another pre-sessional course this summer…

The Life Game

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My favourite first day getting to know you activity.

The Word Box

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What is a word box? It is class specific. You will need a different…

Teaching Teenagers

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What makes teaching teenagers different from teaching adults? How to increase motivation and cope with the extra energy of teens in the language classroom.

The Genius of Knock Knock Jokes

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Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock! Who’s there? Who’s…

Reading with Children

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Everyone knows the benefits of reading to babies and toddlers,…
emoji

English, Emoticons and Emojis 😉

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A friend of mine is concerned about my use of emoticons in…
Map of British Empire

An English Empire? Linguistic Imperialism and me.

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When I completed my CELTA (the initial training course for EFL…

Language Play – Alliteration and Rhyme

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Persuasion, poems, puns. We use language to connect, to communicate,…

Repetition and Rhetoric

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When people send me their work for editing they most often ask…

EFL Extensive Reading

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In EFL we talk about two types of reading Extensive Reading and…
Apostrophes

Apostrophe Wars

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My week has been punctuated erratically by the ping of my inbox…

Why rhyme?

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My daughter, Lyra, is learning a poem for a school poetry competition.…

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