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We also have a video interview with Jane about her teaching career and views on ELT issues.
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Laxman
On the new Teaching English site we will have Guest Teachers as a regular feature.
Our second guest teacher is Laxman Gnawali from Nepal. Laxman will be keeping a blog, contributing to discussions and telling us about teaching in Nepal. You can read Laxman's biography and an interview with Laxman.
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The kit is based on the short story of the same name by author Andrea Levy. The story was first published in ‘The Independent on Sunday' and later in the anthology ‘Underwords - The Hidden City' published by Maia Press Limited.
The wish of language teachers everywhere is to promote genuine learning - the ability to use the language and to interact with a reasonable degree of fluency.
With small groups, a useful exercise is to write down a simple, basic sentence and ask the students to add as many adverbs and adjectives to make the sentence more "colourful".
This activity is designed to be used as a warmer for Intermediate level learners. It could be used to generate interest in amazing facts as a lead in to a lesson using comparatives and superlatives.
Show Me is a gateway that brings the best online resources and games from the UK's museum, gallery and heritage sectors together into a '24 Hour Museum'. The content is aimed at children aged from 5 to 11. The link here takes you to the teachers area of the site where you find help and suggestions for using the resources from the site for lesson planning.
The lesson aims to raise students' awareness of verbs which collocate with ‘money' and give them practice of using them. and
promote learner autonomy by encouraging the deduction of meaning of unknown lexis from context.
What are the essential differences between the teaching of English in
the classroom (in the face-to-face mode) and teaching English
by distance? How can we make teaching of English through distance learning effective?
Today was a different day for me because I am a teacher. I have been a
teacher of English for more than twenty years. And every year this day adds
fuel to my life as a teacher.
Teachers of English from all over the world meet at IATEFL 2008 to discuss what's new in ELT. The programme offers over 300 workshops, posters, talks, panel discussions and symposiums by international presenters from over 60 countries.
You can register at Exeter Online to watch presentations, interviews and join online discussions.
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