Interjections by Jack Scholes OOPS!
“OPA!”
Oops! I’m sorry.
Opa! Desculpe.
A exclamação Oops! exprime surpresa ou arrependimento depois de um pequeno erro ou acidente. GAWD!
“DEUS!”
Oh, my gawd! I don’t believe it!
Ah, meu Deus! Eu não acredito!
Gawd é a…
New Year Quizzes Are these statements true or false?
1) The day celebrated as New Year’s Day was not always January 1st . In ancient times it was celebrated on the first day of summer. (__)
2) Other traditions of the season don’t include the making of New Year’s…
This month, I have prepared some Christmas activities you can do with your students to build up their vocabulary. There is an interactive crossword and three different ways to do “secret friend”. The level and instructions are given for each activity. Have fun and Merry…
One of the things I learned during my CELTA course was how to teach Reading lessons. Basically, you design the lesson, follow the steps, and if all goes according to plan, “bada bing bada boom”, your student develops their reading skills. However, I have noticed that…
Project based learning (PBL) can be very confusing and strenuous if we try to apply it without fully understanding the concept, steps and objectives. However, the outcome is truly amazing and the learning objectives go way beyond any course book can give us. What actually…
Tenho notado nestes últimos dez anos de experiência como consultora pedagógica que professores de idiomas são realmente muito criativos.
É interessante observar como ideias surgem em aulas ou após ministrá-las, tornando o arquivo do professor cheio de anotações.
No…
If beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, where does innovation lie in the context of the L2 classroom?
Within the relatively slow-changing scenario of general education, the ELT industry has been an exception, benefitting from SLA research, from classroom research, from…
Call for papers! – Three months ago I flew to Mexico City to attend my very first international conference (LABCI – Latin America British cultural Institutes) as a speaker. What I took with me was my 10-kilo luggage, a huge amount of good expectations and positive…
Inspiration and Motivaion – I once had a one-to-one student who literally started crying in class sometimes when she spoke English. She explained to me it was because she felt emotional and it took her back to her teenage years when she used to love going to her…
