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Halloween Caramel Apples
20th October 2015Halloween is my favorite holiday. Even our wedding was a Halloween costume party. Halloween is difficult to explain to students, but food ignores language and...
Read More NewsObjects, Subjects and the Banking Model
20th October 2015What is the Banking Model? Imagine an empty vessel and someone pouring knowledge into this vessel. The ‘active’ elements of this image are the person pouring this knowledge (the teacher) and the knowledge itself. The ‘static’ element is...
Read More NewsThrow in the Towel
20th October 2015What’s So Funny? is a weekly column dedicated to using humor in your English lessons. Everybody loves jokes and idioms and every language has jokes and idioms. But understanding them in a new language is not such a funny thing...
Read More NewsGet a Life
20th October 2015This activity is designed for high intermediate to advanced adolescents and adults to (1) increase their exposure to collocations with the verb ‘get’ and (2) to provide repetitive, contextualized practice with these collocations...
Read More NewsStories of Thankfulness
20th October 2015Sharing our stories around a table, class, or campfire is always a good thing do to. No matter where we share our stories, telling them and hearing...
Read More NewsTeaching Performing Arts
20th October 2015Teaching Performing Arts in schools has come a long way since both students and teachers have discovered that this versatile subject can do more for […]
Read More NewsDeveloping dialogue through questioning
15th September 2015Culture Chat is a column that considers how race and culture feature in the classroom and the effect this can have on learners. Activities suggested range from sharing individual reflections and opinions to those that require bringing...
Read More NewsThe Critical Mindset
15th September 2015If you’re taking the time to read this, then I doubt you’re the sort of teacher who thinks there’s one best way to teach and one best way to learn...
Read More NewsIntroducing “What’s so funny?”
15th September 2015What’s So Funny? is a weekly column dedicated to using humor in your English lessons. Everybody loves jokes and idioms and every language has jokes and idioms. But understanding them in a new language is not such a funny thing...
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