Although there is no road-code or rulebook for blogging, there are general features both for creators and for readers and/or analysts. As a teacher, you likely want your students to respond to and/or analyse blogs, if not actually to produce posts. Here are those features.
10 November 2024
08 October 2024
Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "The Death of the Moth" by Virginia Woolf
Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices is for students, teachers and advanced users of English. This text, widely regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-centiury essays and which should be read and discussed by all, is also suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.
01 December 2023
Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf
Our four-part series on this work by one of the most important and influential feminist literary voices. This text is suitable for Cambridge and IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.
06 September 2023
How are your English as a Second Language Skills?
Chile's National Curriculum is an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) programme, yet many teachers and students are functionally at an English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) level and so an E2L programme would likely be more appropriate. How about you? What are your E2L skills like?
13 August 2023
Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Reading Comprehension
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three reading comprehension exercises. Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.
04 August 2023
Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Note-taking
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session reviews three note-taking exercises. Suitable for E2L students in a bilingual programme, and Advanced EFL students.
18 July 2023
Cambridge E2L (aka "ESL") Summaries
From our series of Cambridge English as a Second Language (E2L or ESL) Practice and Feedback programmes for teachers and students, this session covers the characteristics of and then writing and reviewing summaries.
06 July 2023
Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "Fire on Christmas Eve" by Dylan Thomas
01 July 2023
Active Learning : Questioning
Asking questions is a crucial skill for teachers, and is more than just checking for recall. Effective questioning can "can stimulate learning, develop the potential of students to think", clarify ideas, "stir the imagination, and [create an] incentive to act". Join us as we review the role and function of asking questions for learning.
10 October 2022
Poetry "The Sentry" by Wilfred Owen
One of the most important exemplars of first World War "war poetry", this influential poem should be included in every High School English Language and Literature programme, including EFL. The work has also appeared in the Cambridge Literature syllabus, and is appropriate for MYP, IB Dip English A Lang&Lit and AP.
Poetry "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This influential poem should be included in every High School English Language and Literature programme, including EFL. The work has also appeared in the Cambridge Literature syllabus, and so is appropriate for MYP, IB Dip English A Lang&Lit and AP.
22 July 2022
An Advanced English-based Introduction to and Overview of Economics
This text-based introduction to and overview of Economics also serves as a subject-based Advanced English acquisition and development programme. The text-review element is based on Economics : A Very Short Introduction by Partha Dasgupta (OUP), while the language-review element is prompted by student needs as they emerge. This programme is useful for those with a general interest in Economics, and for those following Cambridge, IB or university first-year Economics courses.
14 May 2022
Coaching and Support for Cambridge International lGCSE English Literature teachers
If you are new to teaching a Cambridge International IGCSE English Literature programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an Cambridge International school, this Coaching and Support is for you.
Coaching and Support for Cambridge International lGCSE English Second Language teachers
Coaching and Support for Cambridge International lGCSE English First Language teachers
If you are new to teaching a Cambridge International IGCSE English First Language programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an Cambridge International school, this Coaching and Support is for you.
Coaching and Support for IB Diploma Extended Essay supervisors
If you are new to teaching an IB Diploma programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an IB Diploma school, this Coaching and Support for Languages A and B Extended Essay supervisors is for you.
Coaching and Support for IB Diploma Language A Language & Literature teachers
If you are new to teaching an IB Diploma programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an IB Diploma school, this Coaching and Support is for you.
Coaching and Support for IB Diploma Language A Literature teachers
If you are new to teaching an IB Diploma programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an IB Diploma school, this Coaching and Support is for you.
Coaching and Support for IB Diploma Language B teachers
If you are new to teaching an IB Diploma programme, are in your first two years of doing so or are applying to join an IB Diploma school, this Coaching and Support is for you.