Right-wingers are very fond of using water metaphors to describe aquatically the hordes of foreigners arriving on this fair island. We have long heard about being swamped or flooded by people coming in to the…
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Here is a nice discussion activity I used with an upper-intermediate group - it requires no preparation at all beyond thinking of some interesting films to work on. 1 Tell students they will have a…
Could it be that there is only one evaluation question that it's worth using? It's a very simple question: What engaged you? This one powerful question asks the listener or reader to simply identify something,…
This post is inspired by a reading in one of the advanced books - it might well be English File which has a reading related to animals. Anyway, the reason this comes to mind is…
It's interesting to think about how you approach vocabulary when students are working on texts. There should be quite a lot of unknown words in any text when the level is appropriate. Here's an idea…
Coursebooks very often contain strange, abrupt transitions that don't make much sense. Life Upper Intermediate Unit 10 says it's a unit about talent and begins that journey by focusing on the work on an Indian…
There is one huge problem with scheduled observations which is quite simply that many teachers will put on a show. Observations often stress out teachers and so when they know they are due for one,…
We've all heard about those dynamic headteachers who take over struggling schools and implement dramatic reform. Very often that includes making sure the headteacher has a physical presence at the gates of a school in…
Collective teacher efficacy is not something most people in EFL have heard of for the simple reason that it comes from outside the world of EFL. Collective teacher efficacy is the extent to which your…
