Writing is the least natural of all language skills, requiring guidance and practice, and it is that combination which places demands on teachers. The only way to develop as a writer is through producing written texts and receiving feedback, and providing that feedback takes time.
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What is a light, alight, light and light, a lighter, a lighter and lighter? Lightning and lightening and lightening? What about lit and lighted? Or lightered?
What looks like a simple word has many uses and many meanings. This advanced vocabulary one-hour single-topic session focusses on accuracy, appropriacy and on developing the speaker's range, while considering the many different forms, meanings and usages, both literal and metaphorical.
Speaking comes naturally to humans; the first thing babies do is to tell us they have arrived! However, there is speaking and then there is speaking, and schools and teachers have a role and a responsibility in helping students speak better.
Groupwork is one of the most effective teaching strategies and should be one of the primary approaches of all teachers, not just English Language and Lang&Lit. This introductory seminar for G7 - 12 levels (G5 - 6 teachers will also find it useful) reviews the hows and whys, teacher friendly approaches, effective and valid assessment and how to avoid some of the more common reasons groupwork activities are not a huge success.
Reading Comprehension means accessing the explicit meaning of a text, and is achieved through acquiring and developing specific strategies, and through practice. This methodology session reviews some quick-and-easy teacher-friendly approaches which can be successfully used with all levels in EFL, as well as E2L and E1L, programmes.
The recent popularity of the political and increasingly derogatory "woke" prompts discussion on the term's formation, and its relationship to other similar and related words, for example wake, woke, awake, awakened, a wake, to wake and the awakening.
Our four-part series on this work, widely regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century essays and which should be read and discussed by all, is for students, teachers and those interested in literature. This text comes from the Cambridge English Literature book list, and is also appropriate for IB Language, Literature and Lang&Lit programmes.
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 evaluations, including EFL, E2L and E1L.
This one-hour single-topic session reviews key differences between reports and reviews, commentaries and the like, beginning with what may be a new activity for many, providing excellent practice for learners and an excellent model which can be duplicated for teachers.
