The term ‘bilingual school’ is a rather broad label used in
Brazil to refer to various models of second language teaching and learning.
Most progammes that fall under the blanket term ‘bilingual education’ promise
to educate learners in two languages with three…
JS: Luiz, thanks for agreeing to speak to us. First
question: How did you get into coursebook writing? LOB: I became a teacher in 1990, and way back then, to
my coordinators’ despair, I was already writing my own handouts
(=photocopies!), flashcards and OHTs to…
Si ponemos el foco en diferentes épocas de la historia, rápidamente
percibiremos cómo los contextos socioculturales que envuelven cada época son consustanciales
a los conceptos educativos instaurados en los centros de enseñanza, así como a
las estratégias pedagógicas…
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…
A série Speak Out 2nd Edition é composta por oito níveis, do Starter até o Advanced Plus escrita por múltiplos autores e publicada pela Pearson. Em 2018, o Colégio Bandeirantes adotou o Speak Out Advaced 2n Edition, para a 2ª série do Ensino Médio. O nosso curso…
