I had been teaching for almost seven years when I finally decided to give teaching young learners a try. Despite feeling very insecure, one day I was like, ‘why not?’ and finally decided to give it a try. So it was February, 2020 when I first welcomed my…
DISCOMBOBULATED: very confusedCODSWALLOP: nonsenseHIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY: mixed together in a disorganized or untidy wayFLABBERGASTED: very surprised or shockedDOLLOP: a large mass of something soft, especially food: e.g. cream/mashed potatoFINICKY: fussyDIDDLY-SQUAT…
My journey with wordless picturebooks started years ago as I was working with young learners. Having realised my students got highly engaged during “story time”, I decided to start building my own collection so as to offer them a good variety of reading experiences.
through the new national curriculum guidelines A country built by peoples of many origins, with several ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Brazil is one of the most diverse nations in the contemporary world. However, this diversity goes widely unnoticed by the…
Todos os idiomas são repletos de expressões coloquiais, combinações comuns de palavras (collocations) e formas peculiares de se expressar. Por isso nem sempre é possível traduzir literalmente determinadas expressões de um idioma para outro, mantendo o mesmo…
Since the pandemic started, it is safe to say that students have been forced to become more independent overall. Learning from home is often synonymous with spending less time with the teacher, doing more assignments autonomously and finding some answers by ourselves through…
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional…
IN CLASS Get everyone up and out of their seats.Tell them you’re going to play some music. They should move around the classroom – walking or dancing (or doing something in-between). Explain that when the music stops, you will ask them to turn to the person nearest to…
The Non-Native Teacher by Péter Medgyes was first published in 1994 by Macmillan. This third edition, published in 2017 by Swan Communication, comprises much of the original content with a couple of updates based on the last 25 years of development in the field and…
