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Would you like to attend some free online English classes? Θέλετε να μάθετε Αγγλικά Διαδικτυακά Δωρεάν; Take the test and we will send you the results Κάντε το τεστ και εμείς θα σας στείλουμε τα αποτελέσματα We will contact you for some free online English classes! Αγγλικά για Ενήλικες Δωρεάν – Οnline! Throughout…
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The future of teaching may well be online, despite the fact that face-to-face teaching has so many benefits. Advantages of online teaching Online teaching poses many challenges to the teacher who is comfortable and used to teaching ‘live’ only, but these are challenges which can be easily overcome, as there are multiple advantages to being…
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Image from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_KingdomIn all my years as a teacher, I have been reading about the elusive present perfect continuous in the passive as a classic example of that which is formally possible, the grammatical system of the English Language allows it, but is never actually done, i.e. ‘used’, by the language community. According to…
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N.B. A shorter version of this post originally appeared in the Garnet Education Blog The story behind #ELTchat Back in 2010, a bunch of us TEFL people thought that we should start a Twitter hashtag for teachers in English Language Teaching. Twitter hashtags (#) had already been around for a couple of years, mainly for…
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Most people think of a platform like Moodle or a course where you log in, read/study material left by your tutors and write your responses in a discussion forum but never get to talk to anyone. Most distance courses are. Such courses suit many teacher candidates very well. They provide time for individual study and…
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Για όσους ενδιαφέρονται για μια εκπαιδευτική καριέρα εκτός των συνόρων μας. Τα τελευταία χρόνια, η επικοινωνία μας με τα κέντρα διδασκαλίας σε άλλες χώρες και ιδιαίτερα σε καλοκαιρινά προγράμματα, έχει δημιουργήσει μια νέα γενιά καθηγητών Αγγλικής γλώσσας που είναι επιθυμητοί σαν προσωρινό, αλλά και σε κάποιες περιπτώσεις, μόνιμο προσωπικό στην Μ. Βρετανία, Καναδά και άλλες…
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This is an article I wrote with Shaun Wilden in July 2017 and am including a short introduction just to put new friends in the picture of how these particular ideas came to be and how we navigate our careers and learning these days. I met Shaun in 2010, when my online PLN (Personal Learning…
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Download the Cambridge Delta Handbook containing information on all three modules. You can do so by clicking on the image or the link below. Delta Handbook 2015
Market produced and teacher-prepared games have an important role to plan in the language classroom. Enjoyable and engaging, they draw attention away from too much preoccupation with accuracy and create the need to talk, spurred by the desire to play and, of course, win! However true this may be, the language used by learners in…
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My new infographic Some time ago, I started trying to learn to make infographics and had an idea for a poster showing a possible lesson following a process orientation to writing. The infographic took quite a bit of work to do. Process was less easy to depict than I had anticipated but here is my…
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