Apr 30, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: heavy workload If you have a heavy workload, it means you have a lot of work to do and you probably work very long hours. Recently, a report revealed that, on average, teachers in the UK work 40-58 hours a week and a fifth of teachers do more than 60 hours!. Teachers here apparently have the heaviest […]
Apr 26, 2018 Opinions, The state of our profession Putting your principles into practice: lexical teaching in the age of eclecticism Eclectic or just confused?As teachers, we’re often told that we’re now living in a post-method world and that we should all aspire to be principled eclectics, picking and choosing activities and techniques to teach the language. On one level, an awareness of the wide range of general approaches and specific techniques available to us is […]
Apr 24, 2018 Chunk of the day, Chunks Chunk of the day: get sidetracked Last year we wrote a book called Perspectives. It’s aimed at secondary school students and is loosely based around TED talks – and part of what you have to do for any book you write, but especially for one like this, is a bit of research to ensure that the content you write is authentic […]
Apr 16, 2018 Opinions From student writer to subject authority: a social semiotic approach to EAP In this post, I shall be proposing that an exploration of the positioning of writers within texts, coupled with an examination into the nature of intertextuality, should be a central focus of any EAP course. Having explored the theoretical grounds for such a claim, I will move on to make some suggestions as to how […]
Apr 13, 2018 Chunks, Word of the day Word of the day: provincial This morning, I took my kids down to Gökyüzü, one of the many amazing restaurants near where we live, for a Turkish breakfast. As you may have seen from the featured photo, the portions there are so huge that the kids just shared one between the two of them. As I watched them devour the […]
