Have you had any conversations with your students in English about news reports, such as the lorry/truck drivers’ strike? They may have to learn new words to tell you the story. Perhaps these activities below may help your students to broaden their repertoire of…
If we look up the definition of teacher in various dictionaries we would come up with the following definitions:
Teacher: one that teaches; especially one whose occupation is to instruct (Merriam- Webster) someone whose job is to teach in a school, college, etc.
Nina Loback is the Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools.
(You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) Considering the kind of images from other parts of the world we are bombarded with, we end up seeing stereotypical photos of…
Have you heard of the “Daily Mile” that is spreading through schools in the UK that can help improve children’s concentration levels? Basically every day for 15 minutes children can run round their school field to build up their fitness. It can be done at any time…
Networking in an international conference: Perspectives of an introvert - Karin Heuert Galvão
03/05/2018
After reading the title of this blog post, you might have wondered “Why on Earth is she talking about being an introvert? She delivers talks, she posts on social media, she records videos, obviously she is NOT an introvert!”That is actually not true at all.
Being an…
The first time I read the phrase in bold below was some twenty odd years ago. I was teaching English in a company in São Paulo and the framed picture hanging on my student´s office wall had caught my eye. “You can´t do today´s job
with yesterday´s methods
and…
Com o boom de escolas que se auto proclamam bilíngues, também tem aumentado a oferta de alfabetização em língua inglesa. Porém, esse trabalho precisa ser muito bem detalhado e planejado afinal as diferenças entre os dois idiomas – português e inglês – é…
Nina Loback is the Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.)
If you had the chance to talk to the person you are going to be by the end of the year, would you take the opportunity? There is a…
Do you currently have any students who are preparing to go to an international event or conference? I am sure they would like to feel confident, as in the second picture rather than the first!
In this month´s blog post, you will find some activities you can do with your…

