Daniel Shiro –
Reflecting on your own teaching, your beliefs and your skills is never easy. It is however the alternative to spending years and years teaching the same way, with the same examples and the same results – which are sometimes far from the results you…
Daniela A. Meyer –
You may have already noticed that nowadays several ELT materials are corpus-informed. Do you know what that means, and what exactly the difference is? First of all, what is a corpus? As Michael McCarthy points out, “a corpus is a collection of…
José Roberto A. Igreja –
Blow the whistle on to report someone’s wrongdoing (denunciar alguém; “dedar”)
Unfortunately there aren’t always people willing to blow the whistle on law-breakers.
Infelizmente, nem sempre há pessoas dispostas a denunciar os…
Jane Godwin Coury –
Here are two activities about interesting topics that you can use with B2 level students to improve their vocabulary. The first one is about the famous Glastonbury Festival which takes place in the UK every year. The second activity is a word…
General or Academic?
The IELTS (International English Language Testing Service) offers two version of the test and which one to take is a common question candidates have. The aim of this post is to help you understand the similarities and differences of each version and how…
Marcos Mendonça –
As the Czech proverb says “Learn a new language and get a new soul”, I cannot help but wonder if
this is really true. For the purpose of this essay, I am going to treat the word soul as personality. Do
we get a new personality when we learn a new…
Mistakes teachers make when teaching reading, grammar, vocabulary and writing - Ricardo Madureira
24/03/2016
Ricardo Madureira –
Many teachers of English have not undergone adequate preparation to face the real classroom. They take part in one-week crash training courses and are expected to go to the real world and ‘apply’ what they have been instructed to do, as if the…
Paulo Torrres –
Paulo Torres worked on this activity at the municipal school he works for and is now sharing it. It was used with his third graders (4º ano) – Fundamental I. NB Although this activity was used at a municipal school, it can easily be adapted…
Gladys Garcia –
One thing that I used to hear from my students was that they could not feel their progress. “Am I making progress?” “I can not notice whether I am making progress or not.” I used to get that a lot.
If you are a teacher and you are having…
