Qualquer pessoa que vê o nome de Amadeu Marques como um dos coautores de um dicionário bilíngue inglês-português já aumenta as expectativas sobre a obra. Afinal, Amadeu traz uma bagagem incomparável no desenvolvimento de dicionários de inglês para falantes de…
Vinicius Nobre: Jack, you have worn many different hats throughout your incredible career, contributing to the ELT community in Brazil and worldwide in several ways. Can you tell us a little bit more about your professional ventures so far? How did it all start? What are…
In 2020, the creation of the Brazilian Bilingual Curriculum has crowned years of research and hard work to implement a thorough and well-established bilingual education syllabus to be adopted throughout the country. However, bilingualism is still surrounded by…
Evil stepmothers and witches, terrifying giants, lurking wolves, royal characters and candid fairies have lured us for centuries and centuries through fairy tales. What is so enchanting about them? Are they still relevant in the XXI century? How do children benefit from…
Jack Scholes: First of all, could you please tell us a bit about your background and the work you have been doing teaching and managing educational projects? Gavin Biggs: I first started teaching on my gap year before university! I was living in a Tibetan Buddhist…
Teenagers are oftentimes seen as a difficult crowd. They seem to find everything boring, are too concerned with the opinion of their peers, never turn their camera on, and their questions give the impression that they are always challenging teachers. Finding anecdotes to…
LANGUAGE FOCUS: Revision of vocabulary; spelling skillsTHINKING SKILLS: Analysing; moving letters around in one’s visual short-term memory; risk takingAGE: AnyLEVEL: Post-beginner / A1 upwardsTIME: 10-15 minutesPREPARATIONWrite words in block letters on big sheets of…
When we think of a language lesson, quite a common question to be asked is, which coursebook is going to be used? This happens because they seem to be used everywhere, in schools, language institutes and even in private lessons. But what about authentic materials? Can they…
The year is 2021 and many of us are still experiencing the world outside via videoconferencing platforms. Emergency remote learning has had us all rethinking our strategies and adding different techniques to our teaching repertoire. The way we manage our (now) virtual…
