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Child's eye view Free
I recently answered a question on this website about an Extended Essay that proposed to deal with the technique of using a child narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird. It seemed to me to be an interesting...
DP essentials
Language as cloze
A provocative way of putting it, but surely the proposition is correct. Look at it this way - - Language exists, for us, in two modes: entering our head and inside our head - Entering our head, language...
Assessment
Specific Oral skills
By 'specific skills', I wish to define the kind of approach(es) required for effective oral communication, and the kind of language expected. These can be seen as 'transfer goals' - the term used in the...
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Brave New AngloWorld Free
It is a truism that English is a world language, but what exactly does that mean? Clearly, you can’t go absolutely everywhere in the world and expect to communicate in English. On the other hand, there...
Activities
'Get'
This rather unattractive little monosyllable 'get' is not popular among language teachers. The common reaction is that to use 'get' is "lazy language", or that it distracts students from learning proper,...
Activities
Tenses future
Think of this structure as a simple statement of fact - as in "the moon will rise tomorrow". But be cautious, since most things about the future are not that certain, and usually involve either guesswork...
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TASKS Criminalising clothes
Organising social respectability? ... there have been rules about who can wear what throughout human history. Such rules have always have much to do with social hierarchy, but also ideology and religion....
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TASKS Tourist tribes
Studying the structure of society ... we know that society has organisation because we observe how it is structured - which essentially means identifying groups, and sub-groups, and sub-sub-groups, and...
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TASKS About dying
The experience of dealing with death ... Dying is not just the only guaranteed experience, but also one of the most disturbing. But does it have to be so disturbing? Here is a text which provides an example...
Building a programme
Unit planning theory
The Approaches to teaching and learning (ATLs) document on the OCC has a section on planning units (pp.30-32), and the OCC section also provides suggested templates for unit plans. You might have a glance...