DIA DA MENTIRA APRIL FOOL’S DAY O dia da mentira, comemorado em primeiro de abril em muitos países, incluindo o Brasil e os Estados Unidos, é conhecido nos países de língua inglesa pela expressão April Fool’s Day. Os ingleses também se referem ao…
Routinely speaking, practice refers to “specific activities in the second language, used systematically, (…) with the goal of developing knowledge of and skills in the second language” (DeKeyser, 2013:1). Practice is assumed to be an essential part of language learning…
Bia Mollo is a highly experienced English teacher who has been involved in ELT for more than thirty years. She graduated in Translation and Interpreting and holds the SIT (School for International Training). In her book Look up Phrasal Verbs, she uses all her experience as…
We’re excited to bring you a new series of graded Readers that is sure to motivate even the most reluctant learners.Based on successful movies and with carefully graded language, Marvel’s epic stories and unforgettable characters become accessible to learners of…
Emojis are more popular now than ever before! But how can you incorporate this medium into language teaching? With the help of online learning expert, Lindsay Clandfield, we’ve put together an emoji lesson pack. It consists of a lesson plan, an emoji poster and a worksheet…
EL CONOCIMIENTO CULTURAL Y LOS “SABERES” El estudio de una LE puede partir de una gran variedad de intereses, motivaciones y objetivos. En este breve artículo nos centraremos en el aprendizaje del español a través de temas de relevancia en la sociedad española e…
Techniques, methods and approaches: first things first! There probably isn’t a topic less frequently associated with the canons of early in-service ELT teacher training courses than that of methods, approaches, techniques and their differences, similarities and…
FOCUS Speaking and Listening; Vocabulary, review of useful conversational phrases LEVEL Low intermediate–Advanced TIME 10–15 minutes to set it up MATERIALS Have plenty of strips of coloured paper. Make a list of words and phrases that have come up recently and…
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a term coined by a group of scholars led by Dr. David. Marsh in 1994 in Europe, inaugurated a new era for language learning and teaching worldwide. Although most of the concepts the term embraces are nothing new, the fact…