Building a programme
First Term Options
To illustrate the essential process of fitting the programme of work to the students' needs, here are three sample selections from the pool of components explained under 'First Term'. They have been devised...
Building a programme
Practical planning
I often get this plaintive question at workshops from teachers just starting to teach English B, and it is difficult to know what to reply - not because there aren't answers, but because the immediate...
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Adapting to ATLs Free
I am engaged in another major re-organisation and development of the site. If you look at the sitemap, you'll see that the right-hand column is now called Approaches... (it was formerly called Activities...
Language
German
Paul Shoebottom teaches English at Frankfurt International School . . Let's assume I ask the mixed nationality students in my English class to turn in a piece of writing anonymously, and I read this extract...
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Text types & writing purposes Free
I have been revising and re-organising the 'writing' section of the site over the last few days. This means that there are now a complete set of pages about the text types, and this is distinguished from...
Literature
Metaphors & Lies
Christopher has difficulties coping with metaphors:- Text A ... people often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off. He was the apple of her eye. They had a skeleton...
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WA clarifications Free
My attention was drawn to a recently-posted document on the OCC while I was at the Standardisation meeting at Cardiff. This is snappily entitled "Clarifications for language acquisition written assignments...
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North-South buddy-schools Free
So what does that title mean? Let me explain... During an exchange of emails with Natasha Hanzelic of Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia, the idea emerged of setting up links between...
Building a programme
General language policy
The publication Guidelines for developing a school language policy (2008, available on the OCC) is an unusually crisp and succinct IB document: it proposes aims and means in pithy and direct prose. However,...
Language
Background to L1 interference Free
Paul Shoebottom teaches English at Frankfurt International School . A German student in your English Language B class who claims: "I must not go to the assembly because I have already the informations"...