I was just looking through LinkedIn and I came across this post from Nik Peachey: It's another great technology tip from him, an interesting site for creating fake text message conversations. However, not only is it a top tip but the article the post links to is packed full of great ideas for using the …
6th Visit to British Council Bilbao’s Teaching For Success Conference
Header image credit: https://www.britishcouncil.es/en/english-teacher-conference Yesterday (Saturday 21st September'18) was my 6th year attending the British Council's annual conference, Teaching For Success, in Bilbao - an annual highlight in my calendar. As with previous years, there were many great moments and takeaways, including: meeting up with CELTA colleagues; Robin Walker's use of Sting's An English Man in New …
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Using news stories/newspapers in the classroom via https://eltexperiences.com/
An intersting blog post share from the ELTExperiences.com blog
A year in Review 2017-2018
Before the new academic year starts up it's time to look back and carry out the (third) annual review of my practice and development as an English language teacher (previous yearly reviews can be found here: 2016-17 and 2015-16 ). With these reflective pieces I want to make myself look back at the previous academic …
Countdown to CELTA
So, it's finally happening. In just a few weeks time I will be starting a 4 week CELTA training course in San Sebastian. As the start date, the 27th July, approaches I'm becoming increasingly nervous; will I keep up? am I doing enough preparation? will I survive?
Farewell Docs.com, Hi WordPress….
Last week as I was looking through my email I came across one from The Microsoft Docs Team informing me that the Docs.com website was being retired and that my - very neglected - site on it would be shut down come December. This spurred on a search to find a new home for my ramblings and reflections