Activities
Expanding vocabulary
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or be confined by. from Possession A.S. Byatt (1990) The teaching...
Assessment
Speech, presentation, debate
context, audience, purpose - * the context will describe a situation in which a particular type of message is to be communicated orally - this situation will not only specify the type of audience, but...
Assessment
HL Sample D
. You can make use of this sample in three ways: Marking standards calibration ... to test whether the way you mark results in the same marks as awarded Guided tour of analysis ... to study the process...
Language
qBank - transferable academic language (TAL)
. The qBank is a software system which enables you, quickly and easily, to compose grammar exercises and drills, targeted on specific language elements. . The exercises and drills can be made available...
Blog
Text types & Themes Free
Feedback concerning the November 2021 exams has raised a couple of interesting issues, specifically about the English B HL Paper 1, but with more general application. The first concerns the area of text...
Assessment
TASKS Roadkill Cafe
Here is an article about a rather weird restaurant called the Original World Famous Roadkill Cafe ! And "What..." you may well ask, "...is that ?!" Well, read on, and find out. The Original World Famous...
Assessment
TASKS Gap year proposal
In some parts of the world, gap years are considered a normal, almost obligatory, stage in a student's career ... but in others, it is pretty much unimaginable that a student should stop full-time study...
eBook
TASKS How advertising works
The texts provided in this page contain a series of meditations about the nature of advertising. About the author Christopher Ross took a job with the London Underground - as a Station Assistent, walking...
eBook
TASKS Dismaland Free
To start with, have a look at the Colossal website report , written before the event opened, to have a preliminary scan of the project; then... ... check the Wikipedia article on Dismaland This brilliant...
eBook
TASKS Negative globalization #1
Sharing the downsides? ... that everything is becoming 'global' is now a trite cliché, a statement of the obvious - but all the more reason to examine exactly what is involved. We don't have to accept...