PEDIR EM CASAMENTO
PROPOSE; POP THE QUESTION
“I’ll never forget the day Gary proposed to me”, said Sheila her friends.
“Nunca vou esquecer do dia em que Gary me pediu em casamento”, disse Sheila às amigas.
“We were having dinner in this wonderful French…
Jack Scholes: First of all, could you please tell us briefly a little about your background and how you became a teacher and then Corporate Academic Manager at Casa Thomas Jefferson in Brasília? Isabela Villas Boas: I am what some call an “accidental teacher”. I have…
English Language Teaching (ELT) has changed throughout the years. For a long time, several methods have been employed to ensure learners’ development of their communicative skills. Teachers and schools have relied on second language acquisition theories and in-class…
Look inside A compact, user-friendly reference book addressing many of the kinds of questions about grammar that regularly confront teachers, both novice and experienced, when planning or executing their lessons. A glance at any web-site, discussion forum or social…
If I had to reduce all of cognitive psychology to one principle it would be this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.(Ausubel, 1978: flyleaf) This is a quote from a…
The use of authentic materials in language classes has been around for a while. As someone who learned English before YouTube was a thing, I have probably seen more excerpts of Friends episodes in class than on TV. The abundance of available sources has meant that it is even…
“What is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversation?” Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Alice seems to be claiming for a book with pictures and probably meaningful words. Would that be a picturebook? And what is a…
SCOTCH, SCOTS, SCOTTISH Escocês
Her husband is Scots and drinks Scotch whisky in a Scottish pub. O marido dela é escocês e toma uísque escocês em um bar escocês.
Do inglês arcaico Scottas, as três palavras Scotch, Scots e Scottish significam “escocês”, mas o uso…
A thought-provoking question for teachers For most of my teaching life, speaking lessons worked somehow like this: I would teach a grammar or vocabulary lesson, and at the end of this, students would have perhaps ten to fifteen minutes of “interaction”, and this was…
