PESSOAS BILÍNGUES TÊM VANTAGENS COGNITIVAS SOBRE MONOLÍNGUES? ALGUNS PESQUISADORES DIZEM QUE SIM Ser capaz de se comunicar em uma segunda língua, além da materna, é um diferencial positivo na vida social de qualquer pessoa. Essa é a motivação de muitos pais ao…
CHINELO DE DEDOSFLIP-FLOPS Keith loves wearing flip-flops in the summer.Keith adora usar chinelo de dedos no verão. ABARROTADO/CHEIO/LOTADOPACKED WITH/CRAMMED WITH We need to clean out the attic. It’s packed with all kinds of junk.Precisamos fazer uma limpeza no…
Introduction Have you ever become distracted in the middle of a lesson while teaching online? Perhaps your mind went racing to the future, maybe you got stuck in the past, or an unexpected event may have occurred in your teaching environment (such as the doorbell ringing)…
If you teach a foreign language to young learners, chances are you have already held a spelling bee at least once in your lessons. It requires no preparation, and the rules are quite straightforward: the winner is the student or group who spells the words correctly. In the…
OWN IT! is a four-book level series published by Cambridge University Press in 2020. isThe fourth book of the series, was chosen by our English Department, and has been used by our year 9 students since the beginning of the current year. Before deciding to change the…
Many teachers of English as a Foreign Language have probably been in this situation: in a training course, a course to get a certificate, or even in a random book, they suddenly find the explanation of a different way to teach English. It may be familiar to them, with a few…
According to Global Diversity Practice (GDP@globaldiversitypractice.com), “inclusion is an organizational effort and practices in which different groups or individuals having different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted and welcomed, and equally treated….
É comum ouvir alunos de inglês dizerem que passam anos a fio se dedicando ao aprendizado do idioma e que após muita prática e estudo já se sentindo capacitados à comunicação, sentem-se muitas vezes frustrados por não conseguirem compreender certos termos e…
HOT UNDER THE COLLARIRRITADO, ZANGADO; P. DA VIDA He got really hot under the collarEle se irritou muito.Ao pé da letra, a expressão pitoresca hot under the collar significa “quente por baixo do colarinho”, que é exatamente o que acontece quando uma pessoa perde…
