miguel bengoa elt

One of the first sites that I created was a photo gallery with commentaries in Spanish to show my friends and colleagues in Latin speaking countries what I had been up to.

Recently I learned that a colleague from the University where I work will be going to Baku, so I thought that I would put up these pictures for some time.

There are lots of photos (click on the photos to see them full size), music and even film. The photo in this post will take you to the welcome page of the Azerbaijan site, so you will navigate away from the English language site.

I recently saw in my teaching co-ordinators’ office a poster which advised:

If you are going to bite the bullet, bite hard.

And so, the time has come to start the bite. The What Masters’ page now contains information about nine MA courses and now the time has come to select the ones to which I would like to apply. Current favoutites are:

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Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes. Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some more activities, some of which you can use with little or no prepararion. These are activities that I have found by dredging my computer directories. I there fore do not know the sources fo these activities. I would be happy to give any credit where it is due.

Lying: an icebreaker

air off students. It’s a good idea to pair off the students off oneself, as they might be a bit bashful in pairing off with a partner they don’t know. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a link sent to me by Robert Ledbury. The site is created by Phil Quirke (any relation to Randolph Quirk?) as part of his PhD with Aston University.

‘Welcome to the site that aims to give EFL/ESL teachers studying for Masters and Diplomas all the support they need. Be it quick answers to specific questions, reading lists, content support, good links, book reviews or just someone to scream at, we hope it is all here.’

http://www.philseflsupport.com/ 

The link has been added to the links page under ‘Teacher Development’.

This post is intended to give the most cursory idea about what exactly task based learning is. Read the rest of this entry »

An online phonemic typewriter does just what it says.

ðəju:nikʊəd fəni:mɪkteɪpreɪtə knbifʊəndɪə

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Here is a selection of links for learners to use for their own language learning purposes. There are links to resources under the following categories:

• language links
• topics: Texts to read and listen to, pronunciation practice, spelling practice, …
• listening: over 400 activities.
• native speaker: VOA Special English - limited to 1500 lexical items.
• on line dictionary: each word in the definition has clickable links.
• ask your questions: a learner forum.
• toefl links: these are pre iBIT TOEFL.
• toefl reading
• toefl listening
• toefl writing
• toefl grammar
• grammar: common errors, verbs as well as noun phrase grammar.
• vocabulary: includes some quizzes.

Should any of these links not work, please let me know.

If anyone would like their own link to be included, please let me know.

Why not ask your learners to write reviews and post them here?

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