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EMI: CLIL Revamped

You’ve probably heard about Content and Language Integrated Learning and you might even do a few CLIL lessons in your job, but there is a new abbreviation which is taking the EFL world by storm: EMI. EMI stands for English…

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Cheat (v) – act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage (n) – a person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage Oxford English Living Dictionary…

From Collaboration To Cheating: Where Do We Draw The Line?

27th June 2017

Do you spend a lot of time looking for resources to suit your class? Do you sometimes find the perfect lesson online, but then realise you need to pay for…

How To Get Awesome EFL Teaching Materials On A Budget

26th June 2017

Undoubtedly the main aim of the EFL classroom is to ensure that our students produce accurate and appropriate English in order to communicate and express themselves. It seems sensible then…

Positive Reinforcement In The EFL Classroom

3rd May 2017

As teachers, we put a lot of time and effort into planning our lessons and dealing with assessment. Many people don’t realise that most of the work of being a…

What Really Makes A Good Teacher

28th April 2017

New English File. Cutting Edge. Total English. SpeakOut. Touchstone. Inside Out. Outcomes. These are just a few of the popular coursebooks in English language training. In our English as a…

The Case For And Against Coursebooks

27th April 2017

Co-operative learning is a technique which has been around since the 1930s but has recently seen an upsurge in popularity. It came about as a response to the fact that…

Co-Operative Learning: A Not-So-New Teachnique For The EFL Classroom

27th April 2017

If you’re ever around children, you’ll know that they are really just little people with sponge-like tendencies, especially when it comes to languages. Just as they are able to pick…

How Do Children Learn Languages

20th April 2017

Even though learning English can be problematic for speakers of any first language, some languages offer some respite due to the similarity between the two languages. With these languages, it is…

3 Common Problems For Arabic Learners Of English

20th April 2017

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