Jane Godwin Coury –
Reading is essential for students to build up their vocabulary, recognise how the language works and learn about culture. Short stories can be an excellent source to get busy students reading and, therefore, exposed to English.
Below is a short…
Ricardo Madureira –
Teachers usually overemphasize the need to exercise caution when it comes to identifying false cognates (or false friends). No one needs false friends, we all know, so we do our best to keep them away. Beginning students will all too easily rely…
Marcela Cintra –
The eventful story about the cinema and ELT may be looked at from various perspectives and become a romance, a comedy, even a horror film. In this post, the genre chosen is the one people call dramatic comedy – learners can have fun if films are…
Curiosidades do inglês
Jogando CARTAS A forma apropriada de dizer “dar as cartas num jogo de baralho”, é deal the cards (e não “give the cards”). Veja o exemplo abaixo:
You’re cheating, and I won’t let you deal the cards again!
Você está…
A língua inglesa é, cada vez mais, elemento fundamental para determinar a aptidão de uma pessoa para o trabalho Cengage Learning
Falar um segundo idioma, especialmente uma língua valorizada pelo comércio e pela diplomacia internacional, historicamente, foi símbolo de…
This month we’re going to look at some verbal collocations with mouth and eye(s), but we’ll be focusing only on those that pose a slight translation problem.
The first one is Watch your mouth! This is usually said to someone who uses bad language, but is obviously not…
Pra muitos de nós, professores ou estudantes de línguas, a palavra “ditado” remete a velhos tempos. Logo a gente imagina uma professora (por que não um professor?…) na frente de um quadro-negro-velho-estilo, potinho de giz no canto da mesa de madeira escura, os…
Here are 2 activities you can use in your classes for B1 level students. AIM: To practise the second conditional and encourage creativity.
INSTRUCTIONS: Choose 3 different types of music, for example jazz, classical music and rock. Play a part of each piece of music…
Heads up! pay attention!; watch out! (presta atenção!; cuidado!; “fica esperto!”) “Heads up! There’s a truck coming through,” Howard warned Jake.
“Cuidado! Tem um caminhão atravessando”, Howard alertou o Jake. “Heads up! The boss is coming…
