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.
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.
Recently, Teaching Reading and Reading in the Early Years (aka "Very Young Learners") have been widely discussed in both the general and educational media, and several popular approaches have been discredited and debunked. Join us as we review an effective and proven Philosophy and set of Practices to help you get your students reading which does not require intensive investment.
Our four-part series on this moving reflective essay for students, teachers and those interested in literature, and with a passing knowledge of Chemistry. This deeply-poignant. personal and humorous text by one of our most significant contemporary authors was written on the eve of his death; you may know him from The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat.
Narrative writing is both the entry point for Creative Writing and Fiction, and the best and least challenging vehicle for developing writing and language skills. Join as we review this introductory quick-and-easy teacher-friendly approach to teaching Narrative Writing which can be used at all ages and all levels.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Report writing has been identified as the most important skill for engineers, and a highly important skill in many other fields. Reports are also linked to writing summaries, a regular exercise in Language assessments, including EFL, E2L and E1L. This one-hour single-topic session begins with what may be a new activity for many, providing excellent practice for learners and an excellent model which can be duplicated for teachers.
More in our plug-and-play reading activities, these can be used for comprehension, for identifying opinion and bias, and as a prompt for speaking, debate or writing tasks.
