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Revisiting ELT Mantras #7: ‘Real-world’ activitities

14 de setembro de 2014

Humans (like all intelligent hunters) seem innately disposed to notice things which move rather than things which stand still. Cook, 2000 Don’t move a muscle. by Chris Isherwood CC-BY-2.0 It is often argued that the English language class should try to emulate the ‘real world’ as much as possible. Tasks and activities should reflect what...Read More

Games, Language Acquisition, Lesson Ideas, Teacher Development

EFL, elt, elt mantras, esl, Language Play, td

Revisiting ELT Mantras #4: Exceptions to the rule

14 de maio de 2014

by Damian Willians

Solo by Thomas Leth-Olsen CC BY-SA 2.0 Complete the following sentences: 1 Some is for positive sentences, and any is for negatives and questions. Except … 2 Present tenses refer to the present, and past tenses refer to the past. Except … How many exceptions to to the above ‘rules’ could you think of in,...Read More

Grammar, Teacher Development

elt mantras, exceptions, grammar, grammar mcnuggets, rules

Revisiting ELT Mantras #3: Visual learners need to see things, kinaesthetic learners need to do things.

14 de abril de 2014

by Damian Willians

Think of a baby. What is it you associate with it most – the smell? The sound of the baby crying? Perhaps you think about how it feels to hold a baby, or even just what it looks like? The chances are that most people reading this (assuming there’s more than one!) will have answered...Read More

Teacher Development

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Revisiting ELT Mantras #2: Don’t give, elicit

14 de março de 2014

by Damian Willians

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. Blaise Pascal, 1669 He took some persuading. When the 17th Century Christian philosopher wrote that in 1669, it was as a part of a description of human intellect. But these...Read More

Teacher Development

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Revisiting ELT Mantras #1: Using CCQs and ICQs

14 de fevereiro de 2014

by Damian Willians

Ok, so you need to read the text and answer the questions. These questions here. You need to answer these questions…Do you need to answer the questions? Simple. (Black Dyke Mills 2 by Tim Green CC-BY-2.0) This is something I recently heard a teacher on a pre-service training course say to a group of (mildly...Read More

Teacher Development

ccqs, checking understanding, elt mantras, icqs

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