Month: April 2013

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Teachers’ favourite books – news – TES

Here’s an article about teachers’ favourite books. Mine would probably be Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. What does anyone else think?

Midnight's Children

Midnight’s Children (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6327545

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How To Teach Writing: 7 Strategies for Elaboration

Writing image

In this link you will find tips on how to get your students to develop their writing beyond basic wording:

http://busyteacher.org/6451-7-strategies-for-elaboration.html

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7 Tips for Teaching Clear Pronunciation

Speech bubbles

 

http://busyteacher.org/15083-how-to-teach-clear-pronunciation-7-tips.html

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Advanced English Interviews

One of the things which many exam candidates find difficult to do is to acknowledge their partner’s contributions in the collaborative task before launching into their own idea. Here is a resource to help them to improve this area.

Speech bubbles

http://www.splendid-speaking.com/learn/podcasts/int13.html

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L is for Language | An A-Z of ELT

Here is a very interesting post from Scott Thornbury on the nature of language:

 

http://scottthornbury.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/l-is-for-language/

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Peer response in the writing classroom (TESOL Greece, 2013)

Here’s a link to the presentation for the talk I gave yesterday in TESOL Greece. I hope the people who attended the talk found it useful.This is a photo taken of a peer revision comme...

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwvhQiYtN7sRcVBCSEg5U3YwZnc/edit?usp=sharing

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TESOL Greece Convention, 2013

I’ve just got back from the 34th TESOL Greece Convention in Athens, and I just wanted to say a big thank you to all the people who made it such a fantastic experience – speakers, participants and particularly the volunteers and members of the board, without whom none of it would have been possible.

TESOL Greece poster

To watch interviews with some of the speakers, click here.

I have come away from the convention with many new ideas, and above all  a great respect for the  dedication and professionalism of the Greek teachers I met. Roll on next year’s convention!