Our 'Magazine' section continues to grow and has become an invaluable resource for teachers around the world.
31 October, 2016
27 September, 2016
British Council Spain's annual ELT conferences, taking place on October 1, are a great way to start your teaching year.
23 September, 2016
The Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) has announced the winners of the 11th Annual Language Learner Literature Award for books published...
14 September, 2016
Have you ever used an alternative assessment for one of your classes? What are your experiences? This is a post about my experience...
14 September, 2016
Teacher and student self-assessment as a good educational tool
8 September, 2016
When you’re preparing a lesson you probably give a lot of thought to the tasks and exercises you plan to include. But how much thought do...
8 September, 2016
There is no doubt that 21st century skills is a popular buzz term at the moment, which is interesting as we are already quite a long way...
8 September, 2016
I have a kind of formula for reading lessons that I find works with any type of text and any level. It requires very little preparation...
8 September, 2016
I’ve thought for a long time that texts in coursebooks, both listening and reading, may be the most neglected resources available for our...
8 September, 2016
PPP, TTT, TBL, Dogme - do we really follow these structures, methodologies or approaches or do our lessons grow organically from a loose...
8 September, 2016
If you were to google ‘error correction’ online, you are bound to find multiple websites and blogposts with from useful linguistic...
8 September, 2016
How has your career changed and what has influenced that?Inspired by a webinar by Lizzie Pinard, I’m going to do a bit of time travel,...
6 September, 2016
The British Council is calling English language teaching professionals around the world to enter the ELTons 2017.
6 September, 2016
The ELT Council, Malta has published a free downloadable book, ‘Creativity in English Language Teaching’, edited by Daniel Xerri and Odette...
31 August, 2016
Our 'Magazine' section continues to grow and has become an invaluable resource for teachers around the world.
29 August, 2016
A post about a challenging class of young learners and advice for teachers with problems.
11 August, 2016
Are you concerned with classroom management? This post shows how by creating a pleasant and supportive atmosphere, you can easily improve...
28 July, 2016
TrashedWorld is a global schools' platform for curriculum exchange work on the topic of waste with the dual aims of developing awareness of...
15 July, 2016
A great speaking activity which requires no resources and will help your learners build the skills they need to maintain a conversation.
4 July, 2016
Most materials writers start their careers as teachers, sometimes moving into teacher training as they gain experience and maybe starting...
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31 October, 2016
Our 'Magazine' section continues to grow and has become an invaluable resource for teachers around the world.
27 September, 2016
British Council Spain's annual ELT conferences, taking place on October 1, are a great way to start your teaching year.
23 September, 2016
The Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) has announced the winners of the 11th Annual Language Learner Literature Award for books published...
14 September, 2016
Have you ever used an alternative assessment for one of your classes? What are your experiences? This is a post about my experience...
14 September, 2016
Teacher and student self-assessment as a good educational tool
8 September, 2016
When you’re preparing a lesson you probably give a lot of thought to the tasks and exercises you plan to include. But how much thought do...
8 September, 2016
There is no doubt that 21st century skills is a popular buzz term at the moment, which is interesting as we are already quite a long way...
8 September, 2016
I have a kind of formula for reading lessons that I find works with any type of text and any level. It requires very little preparation...
8 September, 2016
I’ve thought for a long time that texts in coursebooks, both listening and reading, may be the most neglected resources available for our...
8 September, 2016
PPP, TTT, TBL, Dogme - do we really follow these structures, methodologies or approaches or do our lessons grow organically from a loose...
8 September, 2016
If you were to google ‘error correction’ online, you are bound to find multiple websites and blogposts with from useful linguistic...
8 September, 2016
How has your career changed and what has influenced that?Inspired by a webinar by Lizzie Pinard, I’m going to do a bit of time travel,...
6 September, 2016
The British Council is calling English language teaching professionals around the world to enter the ELTons 2017.
6 September, 2016
The ELT Council, Malta has published a free downloadable book, ‘Creativity in English Language Teaching’, edited by Daniel Xerri and Odette...
31 August, 2016
Our 'Magazine' section continues to grow and has become an invaluable resource for teachers around the world.
29 August, 2016
A post about a challenging class of young learners and advice for teachers with problems.
11 August, 2016
Are you concerned with classroom management? This post shows how by creating a pleasant and supportive atmosphere, you can easily improve...
28 July, 2016
TrashedWorld is a global schools' platform for curriculum exchange work on the topic of waste with the dual aims of developing awareness of...
15 July, 2016
A great speaking activity which requires no resources and will help your learners build the skills they need to maintain a conversation.
4 July, 2016
Most materials writers start their careers as teachers, sometimes moving into teacher training as they gain experience and maybe starting...
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28 September, 2008
Learning English in a group is much more effective than on a one-to-one basis
27 October, 2015
How to link lessons together
29 November, 2009
This blog looks at word order.
6 September, 2016
The ELT Council, Malta has published a free downloadable book, ‘Creativity in English Language Teaching’, edited by Daniel Xerri and Odette...
7 November, 2013
Ongoing evaluation in basic education
26 February, 2013
Dear Tanja,wrote...."Please do send more - do you have something which is a bit longer but similarly insightful? .... Sth like 250...
4 April, 2014
Dear Elena, I know how worried you are this August because you are a university graduate now and in just a few days you will set off on a...
15 September, 2015
Teachers Research! is a new kind of book for the field of English language teacher-research, containing stories arising from poster...
30 October, 2009
This is a module I wrote for teachers at upper primary stage in India.
15 December, 2009
I don't know what a railway journey is like in other countries but I know pretty well what it is like in India. I would like to share my...
12 May, 2015
We are pleased to announce three new EnglishAgenda continuing professional development webinars coming up in May.
6 June, 2008
Hello everyone, I've just posted a longish response to Jorgelina from Argentina about TBA and Young Learners at the end of my...
13 January, 2011
The title of this entry is the first sentence in Chapter 1 of Maryanne Wolf's book Proust and the Squid (2007). This is a very punchy...
15 June, 2009
In his landmark historical study of methods, Kelly (1969) argued that methodological choices are contingent on higher-level decisions at...
25 November, 2009
Over the last few weeks I have been busy delivering training presentations and workshops to help teachers use various free web based tools...
11 September, 2014
Applications for the 2015 ELTons are now being accepted. Now in their thirteenth year, the ELTons awards, run by the British Council and...
10 August, 2009
How we teach must reflect how our students learn, it must also reflect the world they will emerge into. This is a world that is rapidly...
20 April, 2015
Children mirror their parents or caregivers. Students of all ages tend to copy their teachers.
24 January, 2009
"You can't spell teach without T-E-C-H"
24 January, 2011
At the end of 2010 I published the first 5 tasks in a series to help teacher learn how to use technology with their students.