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Reading for fun at home: tips and resources
How can we encourage reading for fun at home? Reading the texts in course books from lesson to lesson contributes to our students’ focused language development, but there is so much more to reading.Continue Reading -
Using classic fiction to talk about families in the English class
Let's talk about the importance of families and different family models by looking at how each family faces different challenges in life.Continue Reading -
The ABC of a graded reader: David and the Great Detective
As teachers, we would all like our students to read more and read better in English.Continue Reading -
Arts & crafts projects for sunny and rainy days
We often need playful activities to keep the language your children learnt during the school term alive and help them use the words they have learnt in various contexts. In our series of readeContinue Reading -
Explore the forest of Robin Hood
Say the name Robin Hood, and a series of ideas, images and connotations immediately come to mind.Continue Reading -
Learn resilience from your favourite books
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not dContinue Reading -
March for Women
Who are the women who can really inspire your students to strive for more in their own lives?Continue Reading -
Over to you! Maze adventure readers for the English classroom
Interactive storytelling is a secret weapon language teachers can turn to when they want their students to experience one of the many wonders of narrative.Continue Reading -
Interactive storytelling
Do you remember those puppet theatres where every child is shouting at the puppets, warning them of danger and telling them what to do?Continue Reading -
Books we give, books we get
February 14th is International Book Giving Day, a worldwide event that celebrates books.Continue Reading -
Building dialogues in the reading class
Dialogue and learning What are your most memorable experiences of learning something new? Thinking back, you may recall a given context (who was present or what the light was like, for exaContinue Reading -
Digital tools for video projects
Video projects are not only great fun, but they are also excellent for language development.Continue Reading