Nina Loback is the Richmond Brazil’s Academic Coordinator for Language Schools. (You can read her complete biodata at the end of this post.) Considering the kind of images from other parts of the world we are bombarded with, we end up seeing stereotypical photos of extreme poverty or wealth mixed with a few natural …
Do you currently have any students who are preparing to go to an international event or conference? I am sure they would like to feel confident, as in the second picture rather than the first! In this month´s blog post, you will find some activities you can do with your students so as to make …
Over twenty years since the publication of Michael Lewis’s The Lexical Approach[1] and having followed all the debate on it[2], where do we stand in relation to the teaching of vocabulary? A little review of the materials we use in our classrooms and our own attitude to vocabulary teaching/learning may prove useful, so let’s get …
This month I have written a short story and prepared some activities that go with it for you to use with B2 level students onwards. The drawing was done by a good friend of mine called Maj-Lis Strunk. The story touches on immigrants and refugees motivating students to reflect and discuss this important current topic. …
I am an extremely visual person when it comes down to learning. I image stories, phrases, equations…whatever the context might be. There has been a lot of uproar regarding Cambridge English’s pledge to remove the phrase “learning styles” from the Celta and Delta courses. “The decision was motivated by the lack of supporting evidence …
GIVE ME FIVE! “BATE AQUI NA MÃO!” Give me five, man! Bate aqui (na mão), cara! Informalmente, quando se quer comemorar algo ou fechar um acordo, costuma-se bater a palma da mão aberta contra a mão aberta de outra pessoa. Para convidar alguém a fazer isso, diz-se Give me five! – ao pé da letra, …
In our last post we saw that you can bake chicken and potatoes, aside from all the sweet stuff like cookies, cakes etc. Today we are going to see what we can ROAST. Curiously, both chicken and potatoes show up in the top 20 occurrences of ROAST followed by a noun, first word to the …
About two years ago I started learning Russian from scratch. If you want to know what it is like to be in your students´ shoes when learning a language, I highly recommend going through the process of picking up a completely new language. It can be an enlightening experience. One thing which I find challenging …