Sep 27, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: protest When you protest against something or you protest in support of something, you do something to show that you are upset about an issue and want a change. Here are things people do to protest: The way organisations respond to the protests can obviously vary. On some occasions, they quickly give in to the protests […]
Sep 25, 2017 Courses, Teaching lexically Teaching lexically July 5th – July 16th 202117.5 classroom hours per week6 hours per week social / cultural trips with your teacher (a minimum of three visits per week)£660* DiscountsReturning students receive a 10% discount.Students paying before February 1st 2021 receive a 10% discount.Groups receive a discount of 5% (2 people), 10% (3-5 people), 15% (6+).Only one […]
Sep 22, 2017 Opinions, The state of our profession Something better change: taking a stand against gender bias in ELT Earlier this year I spoke at the very first International Language Symposium in Brno, the second-biggest city in the Czech Republic. Prior to the conference itself, I’d agreed with the organisers that I’d be doing a plenary and a workshop, saw that several people I knew from the ELT world would also be there and […]
Sep 18, 2017 Chunks, Intermediate word of the day Intermediate word of the day: negotiations Negotiations happen when different people or organisations both want one thing to happen – they want to form a government, start a business, end a war together, and so on – but they also have different needs or aims that the other side in the negotiation do not want – to put up taxes, to […]
Sep 10, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: one for the road As you may have noticed from our last post, we ran our first-ever Lexical Lab summer school in London this summer. As well as designing, running and teaching on the courses, we also put together a full social and cultural programme for everyone. Most afternoons, we took students to less-visited corners of London that we […]
