The CELTA Syllabus
These are the amended guidelines to the April 2020 syllabus document which include information about the online option
Student made games
Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much preoccupation with accuracy and create […]
Visualising Process Writing
My new infographic Some time ago, I started trying to learn to make infographics and had an idea for a poster showing a possible lesson following a process orientation to […]
From Images to Words
<![CDATA[Pictures generate talk, a fact well appreciated by all teachers. This short post hopes to review some well known ideas as well as give you some new ones on using […]
The Giant Storymaker – Ideas for a Hundred Million Stories
<![CDATA[Storytelling is one of the most important acts of communication. Every day, in our contacts with friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances we share stories, anecdotes – things that happened to […]
Are you a Good Language Learner?
<![CDATA[ In this post-method era, when so many approaches and methods to language teaching have come and gone, where reflective teachers are no longer thinking in terms of which ‘label’ […]
Defragmenting Foreign Language Learning – my talk at TESOL Greece 2013
<![CDATA[Presenting language in small fragments hoping that they will one day automatically transform into fluent near-native talk may not be enough. My talk at TESOL Greece highlighted some ways in which skilled performers achieve excellence and focused on practical activities promoting holistic language learning using a variety of free online […]
How to make things fall apart – A behaviour model for creating incompetence
<![CDATA[This post was originally written in 2009 on this blog which was very very new and had very few readers. I have updated it with two videos of a Pecha Kucha which was inspired by it and you will find them at the end of the post. Both post & […]
P is for Politeness in Conversational English – a Discourse Perspective
<![CDATA[Many teachers who have had the opportunity to read discourse analysis either at University or on a PD course such as the Cambridge DELTA, express great interest in this way […]
Embedding Creative Thinking Skills Training into our EFL Practice
<![CDATA[Post Updated with videos downloaded from Upstream Videos of most of my talk at IATEFL Harrogate 2010 Part A about 22 minutes (conntent of slides 1-7 below is not included) Part B about 8 minutes A Summary of my talk It has been suggested that creativity (or, as […]