All Professional Development articles – Page 41

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    Festivals: Shavuot

    This is a two day festival which takes place fifty days after the first day of Passover, marking the time that the Jews received the Torah on Mount Sinai. Shavuot is also known as the festival or feast of Weeks. During their escape from Egypt, Moses brought the Israelites to ...

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    Festivals: Oktoberfest (October)

    The mother of all beer drinking festivals held in Munich every year. Six million litres of beer are consumed in huge beer tents. That is quite a lot of beer so the locals generously host a few million tourists to help celebrate.

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    Festivals: Rosh Hashanah

    The name of this Jewish festival means 'head of the year' or 'first of the year' and signifies the Jewish New Year. It is an important and spiritual time for the Jewish people as they reflect on mistakes from the previous year and plan changes for the year ahead. This ...

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    Festivals: Ramadan

    The month of fasting for Muslims. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. In the evening and in the morning before the sun comes up, they eat small meals. During this month, they take extra time for family and spiritual growth.

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    Festivals: Hanukkah: Festival of light

    Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of light which begins on the 25th day of the Jewish month Kislev, at sundown, and lasts for eight days. The dates for Hanukkah change each year according to the Jewish calendar. Unlike our European calendar, the Jewish calendar alters its dates in accordance with ...

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    Festivals: Glastonbury Festival

    People travel from all over the world to experience this five-day festival of performing arts. The first festival took place on a farm in a small village called Pilton, which is near the town of Glastonbury in Somerset, UK. It was held in September of 1970 and was called Pilton ...

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    Festivals: Moon festival

    This is an important festival in Chinese culture and is a time for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families sit together to watch it, eat moon cakes and sing moon poems. It is also a romantic festival. Couples watch the moon and eat moon cakes, but if they ...

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    Phrase of the week: to feel out of sorts

    Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to feel out of sorts.

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    Grammar teaching: Exploiting texts

    An article by Tim Bowen on ways of exploiting authentic texts for grammar practice.

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    Lesson Share: Exam time

    In her second diary entry, Willow Vanderbosch talks about the terrors of the TOEIC.

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    ESOL support: IT in ESOL

    Tips and suggestions for using IT in the ESOL classroom.

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    ESOL support: Teaching tips

    Chris Speck offers a heap of useful suggestions on how teachers can support ESOL students.

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    Making proposals to ELT publishers

    You want to break into materials writing for ELT, but you have no contacts. One way to get your name and materials known is to send an unsolicited proposal to an ELT publisher. This can show what your ideas about teaching and learning are and what a great writer of ...

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    Lesson Share: Vera Elizabeth

    Term one, week two, Monday morning, 9am. Not a great slot. Especially not great when it’s grey and dreary outside and inside the classroom is long, narrow and overcrowded. However I press on with my current teacher and student development plan. I’ve been trying to encourage my postgraduate students to ...

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    Lesson Share: Eliciting

    In her third entry, teacher Amthal Karim gets a new group of intermediate students and deals with A Difficult Situation.

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    Lesson Share: Pets are not for eating!!

    In her seventh diary entry, Willow Vanderbosch tries to get her students to grips with 'pets'.

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    Festivals: Easter Sunday

    Easter Sunday marks the end of the 40 days of Lent. Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday are often referred to as the Easter Triduum - (Triduum is a Latin word meaning three). Easter Sunday marks the resurrection of Jesus. All three days are 'moveable feasts' meaning they do ...

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    Phrase of the week: to earmark

    Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the term to earmark.

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    Lesson Share: It don't hurt much ma'am

    In her second diary entry, Vicky Turner goes back to the American Wild West.

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    Phrase of the week: to go to the dogs

    Tim Bowen sheds some light on the origins and definition of the phrase to go to the dogs.