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Just A Very Right Royal British Kiss, Nothing More, Nothing Less
Tracey Emin's the Kiss on the front page of Saturday's Independent The Kiss, by Tracey Emin “It was the moment everyone was waiting for, because you want to know that it’s real. After that kiss, you...
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We, us, our, the nation Osama Bin Laden or a celebration of Americanness
Obama announcing the death of bin Laden Taking topical things into the classroom I woke up to the news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed, as many of us did this morning, and watched Obama’s speech...
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The Alternative Vote, Intercultural Education,the ELT Classroom and the Happy...
Yes or No Today only the second ever referendum will be held in the history of the British state. It is also the first time the result will be binding on the government. I remember the first one...
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Not just tweeting talks but tweeting mind maps of talks, the benefits?
Tony Buzan and Mindmapping Alfred Korzybski Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski is famous for saying that “the map is not the territory,” based on the idea that an abstraction...
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#eurovisionchat
elt tweet eurovision Last night was Eurovision again. Was fun tweeting last year and fun last night too. This is an edited transcript of the tweets just before and during the voting to give you a...
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Listening to Teenagers and Teaching Teenagers to Listen
Mr Farthing in Kes listening to his student Billy Casper, the only teacher to do so in the school I really enjoyed reading Fiona Mauchline’s post “Teach Teens Unplugged. Why on earth?!” post today”....
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How not to be an alien, the benefits of a fieldwork approach to ELT
How not to be an alien The linguistic,cultural and educational benefits of learning English abroad. How do we greet people? When I arrived in England I thought I knew English. After I’d been here an...
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ELT Summer Courses as Learning Communities
ELT Summer Courses as learning communities and ways of developing a rich learning environment: A process approach from the perspective of a course tutor. It has been a long time since I last wrote on...
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Václav Havel “What will our schools be like post 1989?”
A book I read and re-read many times and used in my methodology classes with students in Czecholovakia in Pardubice and Olomouc after the revolutionary changes in 1989/90 Following the death of Václav...
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London Calling Stand-Up Comedy in Croatia at the HUPE ELT International...
Alfie Brown, Jeff Leach and Paddy Lennox surrounded by admirers after the show This was the fist time that the Croatian Teachers’ Association, HUPE, had invited British and Irish stand up comedians to...
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