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Like, Comment, Share

22 de outubro de 2017

Would you like to Like, Comment and Share? This is the activity I mentioned on my last blog post about the three key features to teach speaking. These are the instructions. Preparation: cardstock paper, popsicle sticks, a pencil, templates, scissors and glue. Tell students they are going to have a group discussion about ‘dilemmas’ and...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills

lesson-ideas, skills, speaking

On tenterhooks

3 de março de 2017

by Dominic Walters

I went for a meeting last week with a woman who was interested in having English lessons. She said she needed to improve her English as the company she worked for had just signed a lucrative contract with an American firm. In all respects, she was an uninhibited and confident person who held a high...Read More

Reflections about Education, Skills, Teacher Development

reflections about education, skills, teacher development

Lost in Translation – O uso da tradução na sala de aula

14 de abril de 2016

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos e todas! Para este post de hoje, resolvi trazer um pouco à baila um assunto que tem a ver com uma das minhas atividades profissionais relacionadas à língua inglesa. Sou tradutor, atualmente trabalhando mais com livros de RPG (para saber um pouco mais sobre isso, leia meu post). Entretanto, sempre que posso,...Read More

Vocabulary

grammar, reading, skills, tradução, translation, vocabulary, writing

5 keys to becoming an indispensable professional in the EFL market

10 de julho de 2014

by Vinicius Nobre

I have recently read an internet article that suggested some essential attitudes in order to become indispensable at work. The author lists some rather interesting recommendations that could make anyone more important in their workplace. In this post, I would like to use this text as inspiration to express what I consider important features for...Read More

Career

development, EFL market, EFL professionals, features, skills

Learning to Grammar

3 de abril de 2014

by Dominic Walters

Three private students of mine recently proclaimed that they believed they had become less fluent since the beginning of our lessons a little over two months ago. They were naturally preoccupied given that they were paying good money to improve their English. Needless to say, I had to put their minds at ease, and it...Read More

Grammar, Skills

Accuracy, fluency, grammar, skills, teaching

The Listening Skill – Part 1

11 de março de 2014

by Roseli Serra

Listening is an essential area of development in both native and second languages. It’s a very challenging skill for students to develop, yet one of the most important. Scarcella and Oxford (1992: p. 138) state that “listening is the process of receiving, attending to, and assigning meaning to an aural stimuli”. So listening is a...Read More

Skills

Listening, listening comprehension, skills