Si vous étudiez le français depuis longtemps et ne comprenez pas bien les séries, les reportages et les films français vous aurez, sans doute, besoin de quelques astuces.
Quand on étudie une langue on doit avoir une certaine connaissance de la phonétique, de la…
In order to stimulate critical thinking among our students we need to foster creativity, participation and allow them to ask questions about topics that are of their interest. Questioning and inquiry should be part of their routine, as well as problem solving and…
Nowadays teaching English by skype is becoming more common as it more convenient for many people to have an English lesson in their office, house or even hotel where they are staying on business. In this article, I would like to offer some simple, but effective techniques…
TO MAKE TRACKS
IR EMBORA
It’s getting late. We’d better make tracksfor the tube station.
Está ficando tarde. É melhor irmos embora para a estação de metrô.
TO LICK SOMEBODY’S BOOTS
BAJULAR; PUXAR O SACO
I refuse to go licking his boots.
Eu me recuso a ficar…
É claro que aprender a pronúncia correta de palavras comuns é essencial para se comunicar de forma efetiva. Na verdade, muitos erros de pronúncia são causados pela ênfase errada, a parte da palavra falada com um pouco mais força e duração. Existem diversos truques…
In this first post of a three part series, I’d like to talk about something which in my experience brings language to life … and that is culture. It’s a big one isn’t it? I think we all agree that it would be near impossible to teach a language (any…
Paulo Torres –
My April post was about using songs in class. In order to exemplify some of the tips given, I decided to prepare a song activity. This activity was prepared for an A2 group and we were working on weather words. Below you will find the instructions and…
Vanessa Prata – Após uns meses sem conseguir contribuir para o blog da Disal (tenho a desculpa de estar na fase de qualificação do mestrado rs…), estou de volta! E escolhi como tema comentar o livro Inglês para Professor, de Higor Cavalcante, pois tem um…
Stella E. O. Tagnin –
Here’s the second leg of my leg post. Sorry for taking so long…
Let’s look at leg preceded by an adjective. From the list below we are only going to deal with those adjectives that might be problematic – but even so they aren’t too…
