Month: April 2013

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Ben Goldstein

kierandonaghy's avatarBRAZTESOL and IATEFL LTSIG

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Ben Goldstein talks about his closing plenary session at The Image Conference in Barcelona on Saturday 8th June.

You can read more about Ben and his session here.

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The Moving Image: A history of video in ELT

Closing plenary

BenGoldstein Richmond

19-00 – 20.00

From the BBC’s series Follow Me in the 1970s to the YouTube Generation and the Decentralized Classroom, how has the role of video changed in the last 40 years? This talk will look at how the moving image has moved on and analyse what may happen in the future.

Ben Goldstein has taught English for over twenty years and currently works on The New School’s MATESOL program (New York). He is lead author of the adult coursebook series New Framework and The Big Picture (Richmond). He has also published Working with Images and English Unlimited Advanced (Cambridge). His interests in ELT include images, intercultural…

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Upcoming event – Encuentros Profesorado GRETA ‘CLIL Rocks!’

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The latest event from GRETA, focusing on CLIL teaching, will take place in Jaen this Saturday.

http://www.gretaassociation.org/web/guest/encuentros-profesorado-greta

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Blog de Pilar Torres: Let’s join to grow and share… now and ever

CETA Conference Poster 2013

Here’s a follow-up to last Saturday’s great conference in Cordoba from the CETA blog. Many thanks to Pilar, Ester and all those who made it possible.

http://alinguistico.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/lets-join-to-grow-and-share-now-and-ever.html

Shakespearian insults

A refreshing alternative to the usual insults we hear. Enjoy!

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A different side of EFL

Here’s a link to a very interesting presentation, given at IATEFL. http://differentefl.blogspot.gr/search?updated-min=2013-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2014-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=1

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5 Alternatives To Bloom’s Taxonomy For Teachers –

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Another take on Bloom’s taxonomy, which should be of interest to all of us.

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/5-alternatives-to-blooms-taxonomy/

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Language And The City, 10 Shakespeare Quotes that you can use in Modern English.

I couldn’t let the Bard’s birthday (and the anniverasry of his death) go by without some sort of mention. Thanks to Roseli Serra for sharing this.

This was long thought to be the only portrait ...

 

http://languageandthecity.tumblr.com/post/44856607073/10-shakespeare-quotes-that-you-can-use-in-modern

 

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Seven Reasons for Taking Exam Courses Online

This is an interesting article setting out the benefits of taking exam courses online rather than in a traditional classroom.

Online education and Financial Aid

http://blog.wiziq.com/taking-exam-courses-online

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7 Techniques that Will Increase Student Talking Time – Exponentially!

Here is a series of simple, but very useful techniques to increase student speaking time in the classroom.

English: classroom

English: classroom (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://busyteacher.org/13959-how-to-increase-student-talking-time-7-techniques.html

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Thought for the day

speaking and listening

 

This is obviously the ideal for a teacher. Does anyone think they achieve it?