Building a programme
May 2022, reviewed
As usual, I emphasise that this is a personal review, not an objective, detailed summary: I have simply selected those elements of the Report which seem to me to be particularly significant and useful,...
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Listening exam,considered Free
Now that the Listening component has finally arrived after the delays caused by the pandemic, I decided that I should try doing the M22 HL exam, in order to explore how it worked and the level of the...
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A Summary of Guide 2018
This page provides a very concise summary of the key elements of the 2018 Subject Guide. This is basically a check-list in note form, in order to give an overview - it is essential to read the Subject...
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Language learner types Free
If we think about our students, overall, we would all recognise that they go about the business of learning and using the language in different ways. Certainly, they achieve different levels of success,...
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A lesson learned Free
This a 'guest blog'. It was written by Rebecca Greenway (Ecole Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Lille), as a "reflection" on how we should be approaching education in the current state of the world. It seemed...
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A charm of bloopers Free
To start with, the term 'blooper' is not that commonly used, so here's Oxford Languages' definition: blooper So there we are - foot-in-mouth syndrome. Now that we've got our terminology sorted out......
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TASKS UK Social Class
This page looks at the way social class is defined and described in the United Kingdom. Ideas about social class are not merely of academic interest to sociologists; they have a powerful influence on...
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About being a teacher #2 Free
Another happy discovery in my back-files, as part of my on-going house-moving clear-out (scenario...might as well make the phrase really clunky!). Again, I have no idea where this came from, except that...
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E-marking issues
From discussions in workshops, it would appear that few English B teachers are familiar with the e-marking system by which most assessment components are now marked. This is not surprising since once...
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About being a teacher Free
At an English B workshop many years ago now, someone in the group cheerfully circulated this graphic. It caused much amusement, as well as wry recognition, and I recently came across it in my files (which...