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…
Louise Potter –
One of the important steps I pointed out in the previous blog referring to lesson planning was to include different learning skills in your class plan. What are learning strategies?
They are conscious steps or behaviors used by language learners…
Rosane Vidmar –
O mercado de trabalho tem exigido cada vez mais dos profissionais em busca de destaque nas organizações em que atuam. Um dos fatores decisivos é o conhecimento avançado do idioma inglês. Há algum tempo, o inglês deixou de ser um diferencial para…
Daniela A. Meyer –
Which vocabulary words or phrases do you remember best? How did you learn them? How often do you use them when speaking English? How does your brain retrieve them? As Jeanne McCarten stated in Cambridge University Press’s pedagogical booklet…
Marcela Cintra –
When asked about our students we, all remember the brilliant or the devilish ones. We boast about those students who excelled in their studies or professional lives because of our lessons or laugh at the displays of misbehaviour we faced throughout…
Fernando Morais –
“Whether you like them or not, tests are not going away.” (Harmer, IATEFL 2015)
Preparing students for proficiency exams is a growing demand for English language teachers. More than 10 million people sit these tests every year around the globe.
