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 […]
Sep 3, 2017 Chunks, Phrase of the day Phrase of the day: I think not One of the courses we ran this July as part of our very first Lexical Lab summer school was ADVANCED LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, which lasted two weeks and which explored everything from the class system to education to Brexit to women’s issues to race and immigration. It was a wonderful course to design and write […]
Aug 31, 2017 Advanced language and culture, Courses Advanced language and culture Week 1: July 5th – July 9th 2021Week 2: July 12th – July 16th 2021Week 3: July 19th – July 23rd 2021 21 hours a week (including visits)15 classroom hours and 6 hours of visits (a minimum pf 3 per week) 1 week: £370*2 weeks: £690*3 weeks: £990* DiscountsReturning students receive a 10% discount.Students paying […]