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Bored Game
26/01/2017 16:46
Bored Game
Invited to Azerbaijan as a teacher trainer with KASPI Liseyi for a month, discovering a simple way of enthusing any class containing students preparing for Cambridge KET, PET or FCE examinations, the method is applicable for any group of learners with an ELT professional to assist. All...
Shanghai Surprised
04/10/2015 16:14
Shanghai Surprised
Imagine my surprise when the normally parsimonious Chinese agreed to pay my airfare to Shanghai and guarantee to return me to pasture when the juice had been squeezed from the orange of my teaching capacities. A rurally idyllic perspective quite in keeping with traditional...
Shaking Heads At Europe And Hand It To The Americans
13/07/2015 04:32
Shaking Heads At Europe And Hand It To The Americans
The United Kingdom`s bizarre love affair with the United States of America continues. Once described as the US` aircraft carrier, the UK sits off the European mainland as a very small nation indeed when broken up into its constituent...
The TEFL`s Crew`s Aid
07/05/2015 07:04
The TEFL`s Crew`s Aid
The `Promised Land` for the TEFL`s Crew is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where salaries are Western, and the cost of living isn`t. Of course, the Westerner has to get used to the cultural differences and evince a degree of unwonted sensitivity as the burger restaurant,...
To The TEFL A Teacher
15/02/2015 09:13
To The TEFL A Teacher
A favorite movie is Bedazzled (1967), starring Hollywood ‘Babylon’ sex symbol and actress, Raquel Welch, as ‘Lust` among the `seven deadly sins` which, according to the established churches, result in the individual`s going to perdition, that is, ‘eternal unendurable...
International English Language Testing System
10/02/2015 10:37
International English Language Testing System
Most children in primary education in the United Kingdom have been exposed to the IQ Test phenomenon, which requires them to complete a few simple questions to ascertain what intelligence quotient the test preparers have decided to...
Our Man In Dammam
04/02/2015 11:34
Our Man In Dammam
Writing science fiction stories, while travelling the world as an English language teacher, was fraught. Aliens appeared everywhere in the guise of peepers trying to see what it was that the budding `sci fi` genius was engaged in, while preparing to condemn him as another...
Cost Of Living Survey, Pseudi Yarubeer
01/10/2014 08:14
Cost Of Living Survey, Pseudi Yarubeer
After Bullitz language skull `headhunted` me in accordance with the British head chuck occasion system, whereby those who showed any sign of having the intellectual wherewithal to escape wage slavery were consigned to be wasted, like basketballs in...
Collaborative Writing
30/06/2014 17:54
Collaborative Writing
The use of small group and pair work is supported by two major theories of language learning: the psycholinguistic theory of interaction, based largely on the work of Long (1983; 1996), and the sociocultural theory of mind, Vygotsky (1978). Both theories...
Teaching English Vocabulary
30/06/2014 17:48
Teaching English Vocabulary
Teaching vocabulary is important, and more than presenting and introducing. Knowing words isn`t memorizing. What students need is meaning in context and how words are used through correct instruction, which is vocabulary selection, word knowledge, and the...
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