Giving learners frameworks
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It is important to give learners maximum opportunity to experiment and use language in whatever way is useful to them as individuals. Many of the mechanical ...
Effective staff meetings
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The key to making staff meetings really useful is to keep them to a minimum. In other words, don’t hold weekly meetings for the sake...
Explaining meaning: collocation
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The most common question an ESL student asks the teacher is "what does X mean?" The teacher is often lured into the trap of attempting an on-the-spot explanation. In fact the question is impossible to answer unless a whole welter of supporting information is gathered. Meaning is affected by a range of grammatical and referential influences...
Diplomatic language
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Over recent months a lot of politicians seem to have been trying to impress not only their electorate but people abroad. Nicholas Sarkozy, with his wife, ex-model, Carla Bruni, went on a charm offensive; the rather less charismatic Gordon Brown addressed...
Measuring progress
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At this time of year the UK plays host to many short-course students, from juniors through to mature executives all devoting a portion of their holiday...
The Olympic Games
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The Olympic games in China next month should provide a rich source of lesson material so it’s a good idea for schools to start collecting materials now. Firstly the topic is interesting in itself: from the original games that took place...
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