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.
14 September 2024
Writing methodology - news reports
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").
07 September 2024
Writing methodology - Advanced Editing & Proofreading Practice & Feedback
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.
04 September 2024
Writing methodology - student editing
05 May 2024
Planning a Novel Study
04 April 2024
Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson using an online video
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.
30 March 2024
Philosophy & Practice : the English of Upper Primary / Lower Secondary / Middle School mathematics
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.
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.
02 October 2023
Plug-and-Play Reading Comprehension / Literature lesson : Essay "My Periodic Table" by Oliver Sacks
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.
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.
20 July 2023
The three pillars of a Media Studies programme
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
21 June 2023
The English of discussing graphs
20 June 2023
Glaciers - four reading and discussion activities for Middle School (G5 - 8) and High School (G9 - 12)
24 May 2023
Ready-to-use lesson as a part of a Sustainable or Renewable Energy unit
Join us as we review this single or double-period lesson plan from go to whoa, providing participants with source material, student activities and teacher notes. The easy-to-follow model will give you a plug-and-play lesson for a green energy unit.
22 May 2023
Writing methodology : Reports
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.
10 May 2023
Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson with an online video
Online videos provide immediate, relevant and up-to-date content while offering teachers exciting, engaging and useful source material for language and media/media literacy lessons.