(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/22Rr0Bg) You betcha! I say this as being a school owner, there is no school unless you have the furniture, plus the buying of furniture becomes a very regular thing on a long term basis so you are always looking for the most sturdy and the most useful for the student and teacher,…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1Tt3zus) The English language she really be hunted down, arrested and charged with being the greatest thief in history. So often it has stolen words from other languages and declared them as their own ad no one has ever been able to do anything about it, once it is declared that is it.…
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(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1G9OB2E) I found this little gem on my computer dated back to 2007 and realized how it is still just as important today (8 years later) as it was then! Check it out. When you learn English, the more you use it the better you…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1NezzSZ) If you are a ESL teacher (compared to other teachers) the comparison to the lesson being like a story is very defined. The components of a story are that: It has a beginning – the set up or question It has a middle – the complications It has a main point (the…
For native speakers, a writing process that starts with a plan and ends with sentence-level editing makes sense. However, nonnative writers have different challenges, especially at the introductory level. Fortunately, process writing is not set in stone. We can adapt it to suit our students’ needs. The first […] via Repurposing the writing process for beginning…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1VOSHJ5) Anyone who has sat their IELTS exam has to admit that the Reading section is definitely the most difficult of the four disciplines. But why is that? By the time you get to do IELTS you should be good enough at all the aspects of English that the Reading section should be…
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(Photo Credit: http://bit.ly/1FPXOQK) I am going to list some slang words here that have a real dictionary meaning and also a slang meaning. Some don’t have any meaning at all in the dictionary and are purely made up words. Some of the literal meanings have some very interesting…
(Photo credit: http://bit.ly/1QdwQDS) One of the most important things someone learns when they take the CELTA course is the role of partnering activities. Just to highlight how these are integrated into the class I want to make two lists. The first list is the obvious one, and the second list is the less obvious ones.…
