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Exercises & drills Free
A major new development in this website is being stimulated by technical developments provided by Jordi and Ruben, Inthinking's website magicians. They have produced the fundamental software to create...
Activities
Linkers wheel
In the page Basic linkers, I suggest that there are ten basic ways to link ideas together, and that these can be organised in pairs. This idea is presented through a handout, which students could keep...
Language
Test 2
Test 2 full Test 2 A Test 2 B Test 2 C A Basic: Refugees, ... from UN report - description of basic facts > articles, pronouns + prepositions, basic tense formations ... B Middling: The Haka ... Wikipedia...
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Online exams Free
A research team in Barcelona has produced a system for ensuring the validity of online assessment - essentially, by making sure that the person taking the assessment online is who they ought to be, and...
Activities
Linkers class exercises
The point of these exercises is, on the one hand, to create situations where students are encouraged to use specific linking words in speech - it is common enough to find that students can use a reasonable...
Language
Practicals writing frame
The term 'writing frame' is used in English language teaching to signify a transferable pattern or design to help organise the way that students approach writing for particular tasks. A simple, even trite,...
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Word games Free
. Language is the supreme medium of politics ... or is it? On the one hand, all of the concepts of politics - ideals, principles, policies, targets, goals - are usually and best expressed in language....
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On the topic of Topics Free
Why are Topics such a major feature of the Language B Subject Guide? What should be the significance of Topics in devising a programme of work for English B? And how important are Topics in the assessment...
Literature
The tasks toolkit
Assuming that the concept categories in the PNCCPS framework ( see Literary study tasks ) are our general teaching targets, how do we get the students to understand them, and to apply them as analytical...
Literature
Literary study tasks
When I first started writing this site, my approach to the 'Reading good reads' section, addressing books for literary study, was to deal with each book in great detail and depth, with worksheets on every...