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The Power of Song

1 de julho de 2014

Hello again! It’s good to be back after a short absence – a lot has happened since I last posted and I’ll be writing about one those things here. I had the great fortune in June to be at a fabulous conference in lovely Cancun, Mexico. While I was there I was talking about the...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Lesson Ideas, Reflections about Education

engagement, Music, songs, teaching

You Will Survive: Teaching With Songs – Part 01

15 de junho de 2014

by Adir Ferreira

Music has always played a very important part of my life. My dad used to play in a forró band, my older brother is an accomplished guitar player and later in life I ended up becoming a professional singer. Songs were present in my classes a lot and in 2012 I decided to gather up...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources

Music, pronunciation, songs, vocabulary

Comic books are not (only) for kids! — Part 02

13 de junho de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá, pessoal! Conforme prometido, vamos à segunda parte das minhas dicas sobre como usar quadrinhos na sala de aula. No artigo passado, só para lembrarem, falei sobre algumas fontes para que vocês pudessem conseguir material autêntico para trabalhar com seus alunos. Agora, vejamos o que dá para fazer com esse material todo: Grammar: está trabalhando...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources

comics, história em quadrinhos, HQ

Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something cool to use with music.

18 de maio de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

Music and teaching go back a long way in my career. In the beginning there were the Beatles, the Carpenters, Carly Simon, The Police, and any other band that my students happened to enjoy. We have all experienced the incredible mood-altering power of music and we’ve seen it melt away a bad mood in our...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Vocabulary

creativity, ideas, songs, warmers

Comic books are not (only) for kids! — Part 01

13 de maio de 2014

by Fabiano Silveira

Olá a todos! Para os próximos textos, resolvi fazer um apanhado de dicas sobre o uso de histórias em quadrinhos na sala de aula. Sou um grande apreciador da arte sequencial —e colecionador, diga-se de passagem — e, ocasionalmente, utilizo quadrinhos como ferramenta didática. Inclusive, vale a pena mencionar que aprendi muito com quadrinhos, um...Read More

Lesson Ideas

comic books, comics, HQ, inglês, quadrinhos

Making writing relevant: Audience, purpose and interactivity

2 de maio de 2014

by Carol Lethaby

Hello again! In the past few months I’ve talked about ways to make what we do in the classroom more relevant to our learners’ lives, particularly with regard to the inclusion of digital media. This month I’d like to give an idea for how to change a typical English language writing task into a task...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Technology

digital media, materials, teaching writing

Would you like a cough?

23 de abril de 2014

by Ricardo Sili

Cecilia Lemos’s today’s post about the importance of intelligibility when teaching pronunciation made me think it is time I went beyond my two previous posts – where I talked about investigating Brazilian learners’ specific pronunciation needs and tackling their intelligibility problems – and move on to something more specific and practical. What do we know about...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Pronunciation

Brazilian learners, intelligibility, lingua franca, priorities, pronunciation

Eating People is Wrong

18 de abril de 2014

by Teresa Carvalho

I picked this title from Goodreads‘ weird book titles. By the way, the title above is from a book by English author and academic Malcom Bradbury (1932-2000), whom I have never read and whose book I am now curious about. The reason why I picked a random title for my post was because I wanted...Read More

Lesson Ideas, Resources, Skills, Vocabulary

Carnival

6 de março de 2014

by Ceri Jones

Here’s a second seasonal lesson idea. This time based on Carnival. In Brazil the holidays have just come to an end, and in my adopted hometown of Cádiz we’re only half way through! I first used this lesson idea with a large class of mixed-level high school students but it can work with a number...Read More

Lesson Ideas

carnival, lesson plan, zero preparation

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