Programatics
I’ve been a teacher in English classrooms long enough to know what some students really mean when the say ‘communicating is the most important thing’. This can be rephrased in the lines of ‘As long as I can make myself understood, I do not have to…
Many times we teach very challenging groups and draw conclusions to justify unsuccessful classroom management. We end up blaming parents for their kids’ misbehaviour. Had they been firmer with their children and provided them with interpersonal skills knowledge we…
Muito embora naquela época não se usasse tal expressão, a “melhor idade” do século XIV era os trinta e poucos. A do século XX, os quarenta. No final dos anos 90 e início dos anos 2000, a melhor idade deu um salto para os 50 anos altos e agora, a melhor…
Teleférico / Bondinho
Para o teleférico fechado, como é o caso do bondinho do Pão de Açúcar no Rio de Janeiro, diz-se em inglês cable car. Quando o teleférico for aberto, como por exemplo em montanhas onde se pratica esqui, o termo apropriado é chair lift. Confira…
Para professores de idiomas trabalharem com alunos de todas as idades.
G) Guloso (praticando o vocabulário relacionado a comida) Material: revistas com figuras que mostrem comida Como jogar? Distribua as revistas aos grupos A e B.
Um grupo irá desafiar o outro.
Em…
The word test has become extremely negative amongst teachers and I can understand why. I also tend to agree with the objections I hear towards the word.
Schools have become obsessed with testing and getting/giving results and scores. When inside a teacher´s room, you can…
Today we’re looking at verbal collocations with head. As usual, all information is retrieved from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA – https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). The table below shows the 20 most frequent verbs that collocate with our search word…
Recently, I attended the 15th BrazTesol conference in Brasilia. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our profession and exchange teaching experiences with people from all over Brazil and other countries.
I gave a workshop entitled “Oops! I dropped the lemon…
Nowadays, technology is present in our lives in many different ways. We no longer envision our lives without it (or do we?). You have probably heard of the expressions digital natives and digital immigrants. Being our students digital natives, it is of paramount importance…
