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Your English: Phrasal Verbs: some lonely phrasal verbs 3
Tim Bowen wouldn't dream of fobbing you off with this week's collection of odd phrasal verbs.
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Jill Hadfield
Author of our fabulous series Fun with grammar, Jill Hadfield, tells us about her globetrotting EFL career - from Bordeaux to Madagascar, from Tibet to the Antipodes - and offers some useful tips for aspiring writers.
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The Road Less Travelled Season Two: The end of the road?: Audio and activities
We discovered that an overwhelming majority of you think that Sal shouldn't marry Rich and we gave you your chosen ending for Season Two of The Road Less Travelled. Now, you can find out just what would've happened if Sal hadn't come to her senses as we bring you optional ...
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Live from Stratford: Shakespeare 1
The intrepid onestopenglish reporters are back with more authentic interviews in our Live from ... series. This time we come to you from Stratford-upon-Avon, the home of William Shakespeare.
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Your English: Word grammar: above
Tim Bowen wasn't above explaining the use of the above word.
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Your English: Collocations: lose
Tim Bowen urges you not to lose sleep over the collocates of the verb to lose.
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Experiments
Make your classes go with a bang with these fun experiments from the Science Museum. Using everyday objects, these fun experiments will help deepen your pupil's understanding by encouraging them to become 'hands on' with the science they're learning about.
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Editorial: The CLIL Debate goes on
June finds us coming to the end of the school year and tying together a number of questions and discussions in CLIL.
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Changing Schools for a Changing Europe
Stefka Kitanova reports on the excellent English Trust for European Education conference, hosted by the European School in Culham, June 12th 2009.
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Closing and outcomes
It was a thoroughly challenging discussion, one which I think raised more questions than found answers. This means that there is ample opportunity for you, the reader, to get involved.
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Fielded discussion on CLIL
The Young Learners and Teenagers email discussion group is housed in yahoogroups and is famous for its activity and energy in many educational contexts and so it was a pleasure to lead a fielded discussion on the area of CLIL from Monday April 20th to Friday April 24th, 2009.
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Defining CLIL
There was a lot of discussion about what exactly CLIL is, whether it is different from other approaches such as EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction) or CBI (Content-based Instruction) or CALLA (Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach). One colleague sees CLIL as a special form of TEFL, with the ...
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Assessment
There was much discussion on the topic of assessment. Colleagues stressed that CLiL means that both the content and the language are taught and that is why both should be evaluated at the same time. Another colleague suggested an alternative way of doing assessment is a mark for content and ...
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Implementing CLIL: Dangers of a top-down only approach
In this article Dr. Brian Bielenberg explores the advantages and disadvantages of top-down and bottom-up approaches to initiating CLIL programs, concluding with a discussion of a hybrid approach that appears to provide the best possibility for successful and sustainable CLIL implementation.
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Your English: Idioms: mind
This week, Tim Bowen takes a load off our mindswith his explanation of the many idioms associated with the human mind.
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Pronunciation skills: Sound and spelling
This lesson plan by Jonathan Marks focuses on homographs and homophones, as well as other pairs of words whose pronunciation learners tend to find confusing.
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British English vocabulary lessons: listen to / hear
Students are often unsure when to use look at, see or watch, and when to use listen to or hear. This lesson plan by Karen Richardson aims to practice this vocabulary in context.
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The Road Less Travelled Season Two: Episode 15: The wedding: Audio and activities
The Big Day has finally arrived and everyone is at City Hall, waiting for the couple to come and take their vows. Will Sal say 'I do'?
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Assessment matters: Diagnostic tests
Adrian Tennant considers 'diagnostic tests', comparing them to other forms of assessment as well as giving some practical suggestions.