Teaching a new language to children is often an incredibly rewarding experience. Studies have shown that when children start learning a new language at an early age, they’re more likely to quickly acquire a native-like level. As a teacher, this is exciting to watch! On…
The English language teaching profession has undergone a sea change as a result of the proliferation of educational technologies. As the technology has become more sophisticated and is embedded in more and more aspects of the teaching and learning experience, there have been…
“Escola!”. Quando se fala em escola o pensamento mais provável de grande parte das pessoas é: giz, lousa, cadernos, professores, alunos, etc. Todavia, existe um extenso e árduo trabalho nos seus bastidores para garantir que: as aulas sejam de qualidade, os alunos…
A escola de idiomas do Grêmio da Escola Politécnica da USP nasceu no início da década de 90, ainda com o nome “Centro de Idiomas”. O projeto tinha como objetivo proporcionar, inicialmente apenas aos politécnicos, a possibilidade de estudar idiomas com qualidade de…
We started using Optimise
B1 in the first semester of 2018 in our Intermediate course. Later, at the
beginning of the second semester in the same year, we adopted Optimise A2 in our Pre-Intermediate
courses. Students at Cultura Inglesa will complete A2 and B1 levels of the…
“Alongside linguistic meanings are personal meanings: how na activity relates to each learner’s immediate purposes, overall objectives, loyalties, self-image, emotions and the like”Stevick 1996 Learning a foreign language entails cognitive, affective, social…
A UP Language nasceu em 1988 com o propósito de treinar
executivos e profissionais das mais diversas àreas, a ser fluente no Inglês em
pouco tempo, para alavancar suas carreiras. Tal foi o sucesso dessa percepção da necessidade do mercado
em Business English, que…
Words are powerful things. When we look at researchbased word
lists, such as the General Service List or the Oxford 3000, we come across many
useful words that can inform our teaching of vocabulary in the classroom. We
know these words are the most important for our students…
The cappuccino incident A few months ago, I was sitting in a cafe, getting some work
done. I was editing a video for a course that I run. On the table in front of
me, beside my laptop, the waitress had just placed a fresh cappuccino. I was
really looking forward to taking…
