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Q&A: Free downloadable lesson
A free downloadable lesson using another wonderful animated authentic recording from http://www.storycorps.com. Joshua, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, interviews his mother, giving us insights into what...
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Am I missing something?: raising awareness of ellipsis and substitution
Photo Credit: Bob.Fornal via Compfight cc When students fail to understand something they read or hear, this often isn’t because they don’t understand the words being used. In fact, it may be because...
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Authentic or graded? Is there a middle way?
One of the often used arguments against published coursebooks is that the texts, especially at lower levels, tend to have been specially written. When I first started writing coursebooks I was very...
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What exactly do we mean by speaking skills?
A couple of weeks ago I received a comment on the blog from a teacher who asked me to write a post about speaking skills. This is what she said: ‘The other day I was asked to observe some students...
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