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New course starting in order to improve my skills as an English teacher. We’ll look at key professional practices that help make a successful teacher of English, to enable us to develop the skills we need for your continuing professional development (CPD). Each week focuses on a different practice: planning lessons and courses, managing resources, managing the lesson and taking responsibility for professional development. Considering the role of technology in teaching, as well as more traditional resources, such as flashcards and of course, the board. Classroom management is a vital teaching skill. You look at ways to give effective instructions, different types of group work, and how to really involve learners in your lessons. Whatever your level of experience, and no matter what learners you teach, this course will give you the opportunity to reflect on and share your current practice. And you'll find new ideas and activities to try with your learners, too.

The Present Perfect Simple Tense How to form the present perfect The present perfect of any verb is composed of two elements : the appropriate form of the auxiliary verb to have (present tense), plus the past participle of the main verb. The past participle of a regular verb is base+ed, e.g. played, arrived, looked. For irregular verbs, see the Table of irregular here THE PRESENT PERFECT IS USED TO DESCRIBE ·          An action or situation that started in the past and continues to the present.   I   have lived   in Bristol since 1984   (= and I still do.) ·          An action performed during a period that has not yet finished.   She  has been  to the cinema twice this week   (= the week isn't over yet.) ·          A repeated action in an unspecified period between the past and now. ...

The Modifier     Modifiers are words,  phrases , or  clauses  that provide description in  sentences . Modifiers allow writers to take the picture that they have in their heads and transfer it accurately to the heads of their readers. Essentially, modifiers breathe life into sentences. Quality Size  age Type     Noun Descriptive phrase this exciting large city With bustling streets a Picturesque Little Resort town year-round outdoor activities A Run-down old port town That has seen better days GRAMMAR NOTES When two or more adjectives modify a noun, they must follow a particular order It's a wonderful, small, old, seaside town. It's a seaside old, wonderful, small town. Modifi...

  That’s fantastic! (Words meaning ‘very good’) We all need words and phrases for saying that things are good or great – that we find them nice or very nice. This post aims to give you more ways to say that you like, or really like, something. Starting with a very frequent adjective;  lovely  is used a lot in UK English for generally good things and experiences: That’s a lovely dress you’re wearing!/It was so lovely to see you again! Moving on to words that express stronger approval; two very common adjectives meaning ‘very surprising’ are also used slightly informally to mean ‘extremely good’.  Incredible  and  amazing are both used to praise things, sometimes describing a thing that is so good, you cannot quite believe it: It was an amazing performance – I’ve never seen anything like it./He was an incredible artist – almost certainly a genius. Other strong adjectives that are commonly used to mean ‘extremely good’ are  ...

Lemos para quê? Planejar atividades variadas de leitura com alunos em processo de alfabetização não é uma tarefa simples! Como professora, muitas vezes me senti perdida e cansada de fazer sempre as mesmas propostas. Você já se sentiu assim? Ao analisar minha prática pedagógica, notei que até tinha avançado em relação aos anos anteriores, pois tinha incluído a leitura como atividade permanente. Porém, percebi que o foco era na leitura por prazer, com a exploração de textos variados, porque eu não tinha clareza dos meus objetivos. Agora, reflito muito sobre a escolha dos escritos que levo para sala, porque acredito que ler não é simplesmente decodificar palavras, é muito mais do que isso! Ler é poder interpretar o mundo, imaginar, e ter autonomia para viver em uma sociedade letrada. Mas afinal, lemos para quê? Segundo  a autora espanhola Isabel Solé , no livro  Estratégias de Leitura  (Editora Artmed, 1998), lemos para “obter uma informação precisa ou...

May, may not, might, mightn’t We use may or might to express possibility.  Examples:  It might / may rain. It mightn’t / may not rain.    Note the difference:  It might be fun.  (not certain)  It will be fun. (certain)  Questions and negatives: We make  questions  by putting the subject after may/might: May I …? Could I … Might I …?  Etc. The  negative  forms are  may not  and  might not ... We use may: ·          when we are not sure about something: Jack  may be coming  to see us tomorrow. Oh dear! It’s half past ten. We may  be late  for the meeting. There  may not be  very many people there. ·          to make  polite requests : May I borrow  the car tomorrow? May we come  a bit later? When we use  may not  for a refusal it is  ...

we're almost there I've learned quite a lot this week on the Blended Learning FutureLearn Course. We've covered quite a lot including Collaborative learning, Peer reviews, teacher productivity, blended learning design and collaboration within institutions and beyond. We revisited the Workshop tool in Moodle to encourage Peer views by students. The Learning design tool is really useful for helping to plan Blended Learning activities more effectively. I will now look into using it again for Peer reviewing. The app   iObserve   which helps teachers assess, observe and give feedback to students immediately by recording video or audio. This reduces teacher workload massively. The crew also looked at encouraging independent learning through Blended Learning which is a great skill to develop within your learners

QUEM FOI TIO SAM? O Tio Sam é um dos símbolos mais famosos de representação dos Estados Unidos, ele foi criado em 1812 e até hoje faz grande sucesso. Considerado um dos símbolos mais famosos do mundo, o Tio Sam é a personificação do país mais poderoso do planeta, os Estados Unidos da América (EUA). Provavelmente você já ouviu esse nome como uma referência aos EUA. Porém, você sabe como surgiu o Tio Sam? De acordo com documentos históricos dos Estados Unidos, o termo Tio Sam foi criado em 1812 por soldados estadunidenses que estavam no norte de Nova Iorque. Eles se alimentavam de uma carne cujo recipiente eram barris com a seguinte inscrição: U.S (United States), em português, “Estados Unidos”. Esses soldados passaram a brincar com o significado das letras, chamando “carinhosamente” Samuel Wilson, dono da empresa fornecedora dos alimentos, de “Uncle Sam”, em português, “Tio Sam”. Em 1870, o cartunista Tomas Nast realizou o desenho do Tio Sam como uma homenagem a Abraham Linco...

O que significa “Phony” ?   Nos últimos dias os cidadãos americanos voltaram a ouvir com frequência a palavra “Phony”, repetida por Donald Trump para se referir a jornais e ao governo do país. Algumas notícias foram: •   Trump to revoke ‘phony’ Washington Post’s credentials •   Trump revokes Post press credentials, calling the paper ‘dishonest’ and ‘phony’ Pelo contexto já deu pra perceber que ser   Phony   não é algo muito bom, né? Veja as definições encontradas nos dicionários: Phony adj.   (pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est) 1. Not genuine or real; sham or counterfeit: a phony credit card; a phony beard. 2. Spurious, deceptive, or false: a phony excuse. 3. Fraudulent, deceitful, or dishonest: a phony expert in investing. n. pl.   (pho·nies also pho·neys) 1. A fraudulent or dishonest person. 2. Something that is not genuine; a fake. Percebeu? Phony   é algo, ou alguém, falso; desonesto; fraudulento. Etimologia – Origem da pal...