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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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ArticleGrammar teaching: Exploiting texts
An article by Tim Bowen on ways of exploiting authentic texts for grammar practice.
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Teenagers: Preparing young learners for exams
Many children around the world, especially teenagers, have to take formal English language examinations. This section provides some useful suggestions for teenagers taking exams.
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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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ArticleTeenagers: Preparing teenagers for the exam: Reading
This section contains useful suggestions for preparing teenagers for reading components in the exam.
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ArticleTeenagers: Preparing teenagers for the exam: Grammar and writing
This section contains useful suggestions for preparing teenagers for writing and grammar components in the exam.
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ArticleTeenagers: Preparing teenagers for the exam: Listening
This section contains useful suggestions for preparing teenagers for listening components in the exam.
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Teenagers: Preparing teenagers for the exam: Speaking
This section contains useful suggestions for preparing teenagers for speaking components in the exam.
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ArticleESOL support: Teaching tips
Chris Speck offers a heap of useful suggestions on how teachers can support ESOL students.
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Grammar and vocabulary: seven ways to help students enjoy grammar
Seven suggestions of ways to help students enjoy grammar.
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Methodology: teaching English word order
An article discussing English word order and possible teaching solutions.
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ArticleTeenagers: Speaking: How to encourage teenagers to use English
Teenagers often do not feel comfortable using English in the English classroom because they feel self-conscious doing so. One way to help them deal with this is to introduce different ‘masks’ for them to hide behind.
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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.