Back in 2015, while redesigning the English programme for Adults at CCBEU-Goiânia, we intended it to be a course aiming to help (young) adult learners achieve the Level B2 as quickly as possible. Having achieved such level, the students would then be able to sit the…
Ao estudar um segundo idioma, aprender as regras gramaticais pode parecer um grande desafio. Dúvidas surgem mesmo em nossa língua materna e ao estudar uma língua estrangeira podem assustar alguns estudantes. Felizmente algumas pessoas se esforçam para tornar esse…
I have compiled a checklist of 5 items you ought to make sure you tick while planning a talk so that you can effectively bore attendants to death. Note that for full bore-potential all boxes must be ticked, however, three or four items might suffice for the easily dulled…
There are many tools we can use to create collaborative slides, such as Google Slides and PowerPoint. These tools allow us to create slide presentations and share them with others, who can view and also edit and co-create content. This co-creation of content can be a…
Troika: Tell us a little bit about your academic and professional background, especially what brought you to Brazil. Lucy Crichton: My academic background has always been connected to communication and the arts! After a diploma in art and design I moved up to London to…
There are some conversations that really stay with you, and this was one of them. I was talking to a former colleague about a coursebook series for teenagers I was working on, and how I was particularly excited about how we had created lessons that I felt were genuinely…
Padlet is an online collaborative tool that allows students to share content they create with their community. Until very recently, students could only share text or pictures, but Padlet has been updated to allow learners to share video and audio content. While video…
Cambridge University Press has been publishing dictionaries for learners of English since 1995. Cambridge Dictionaries Online began offering these dictionaries completely free of charge in 1999 — and today, Cambridge Dictionary is still growing. A learner’s…
It occurred to me another day that bridges might be one of the most amazing achievements of humans. Not the ones made of concrete and steel, mind you – I know they are spectacular feats of engineering, and I have admired a number of them in different places. From the…
