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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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    Contexts

    It's interesting and useful to give the rich and varied information offered in the discussion about different contexts around the world where content and language are integrated.

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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.