The tenth of October, or "10 /10", provides you with a great opportunity for language acquisition and development, to have a bit of fun and to promote English at the same time. Join us as we run through 10 (what else?) topic areas associated with ten from decimals to 10-codes to idiomatic expressions, for all levels G1 - 12 and all levels beginners to advanced, you can use to raise the profile of English in your community.
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Our October 2024 Biannual Chilean English Teachers Private Lesson Fee Survey closes 15 October. Complete the survey and you can have a copy of the results. Last April saw an increase in what Chilean private English teachers charge. What about the last six months?
Children generally begin learning to write in the Early Years (known in EFL as Very Young Learners and elsewhere as Early Childhood and/or PreSchool) or in the first grades of Lower Primary (known variously as Reception, Infant School and even Grammar School). However, writing at this level is not so much writing (composition) as it is writing (handwriting) and so should be seen by educators as a combination of fine-motor development with emerging literacy and numeracy rather than as language acquisition and development.
Using a worked example, join us as we review a quick-and-easy structure and approach for producing a news report (as distinct from an "article").
If you enjoyed our introductory / middle school / B1 - B2 session on editing and profreading, you'll love this Advanced session. This easily replicable model is ready-to-use, plug-and-play, student-centred and at the same time, a great personal challenge for teachers.
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Teachers new to bilingual and/or international programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This session provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.
For most, if not all, English teachers today, the "punk poet" is likely unknown and yet his fast-paced, strongly rhymic and rhythmic street or urban poetry is and has been highly influential. Clarke still tours worldwide, reading his witty, humorous and often ascerbic commentaries on the world in which we live. "Health Fanatic" is one of these.
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Open-group preparation for the Cambridge English C1 Advanced (formerly known as "CAE") Examination. We cover knowing and understanding the examination and its components, Practice of & Feedback on each component, and success and preparation strategies. Whether you are registering for the examination, or are considering it and want to know how to succeed, this programme provides what you need to know.
Lookng for ideas for typical or traditonal games for your English Day, or your English Stand at the Parent Association's Kermesse? Don't worry. We can help with our 30+ Typical and/or Traditional Games of chance or0 skill, or just games of fun, none of which require buying or building equipment. Many of these games can be used for fund-raising.
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For Star Wars fans, "May the Forth be With You" has a special significance. and so the obvious date to celebrate all things Star Wars is the fourth of May. Take advantage of the students' interest in things far, far away to promote and to celebrate the joys of English.
Have you considered celebrating World English Day, 23 April each year? Quite apart from English Week and an English Club, World English Day allows you to "honour the importance of the English language and its role as a universal means of communication". Join us in this overview or introductory session as we explore what, when, why and things you can do to observe the day which marks our raison d'être.
English teachers are often tasked with running an afterschool English Club or High School "English Workshop" with little or no guidance, while even those with experience look for support and new ideas. These sessions provide a road-map to a successful English Club (or Workshop) and ideas you can incorporate into yours.
Students today are increasingly more visual and image-oriented than even those of yesterday, let alone of yester-year. Video-based lessons are appealing to students and advantageous to teachers, and with a little time, thought and attention can provide significant learning and language-practice opportunities.
It's probably a few years since you did Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School (second cycle) mathematics, but the experience for your students will be more recent. Take advantage of this enthusiasm and make your maths colleagues your friends by reviewing the English of Middle School Mathematics.
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The easiest way of saying who does what in English is to add "-er" to the verb thus talk > talker. Of course, this is not the only way. Variants and exceptions abound, traps lie in wait and sometimes competing and commons forms from the same origin mean completely different things.
Teachers new to bilingual and/or international programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This session provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.
You might think that using "agree" and its family in English accurately and appropriately does not present too many problems, however at an advanced level, and for E2L / ESL and E1L users, you would be wrong. Discussing agreeing is more tricky than it looks and, like so many other words and phrases at these levels, nuance is everything.
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