Goodbye to a very special person
What a painful duty it is to have to find the words to say goodbye to an acclaimed colleague, a…
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The Child and the Screen: What now?
A year ago I wrote a series of articles called ‘The Child and the Box’. They were about the…
THE 1ST QLS ONLINE BOOK CLUB COMPETITION 2021
The inaugural QLS Online Book Club Competition took place on Saturday 17 April 2021, to celebrate World Book…
2021 ELT Excellence Awards winners announced
The evaluation process for the 2021 ELT Excellence Awards has been concluded by this year’s judging committee. It was a long…
Edutainment-ing your course book!
I am pretty sure you are all using a high quality and well-designed course book which offers both teachers…
So you think you can teach?
I got a message from a friend asking me whether it is OK that her 5-year-old daughter was asked by…
iRead – Interactive and personalised ebooks for learning to read
We all learnt to read in English in more or less the same way. Typically we have used paper books…
I play, you play… the power of playing in the EFL classroom.
Have you ever thought about why we were so happy as kids? Have you also considered the differences between being…
Process approaches to the teaching of writing
Teaching writing is, for both teachers and students, challenging as writing is a complex cognitive activity in its own…
Never mind a ‘To-do’ list, here’s a ‘Ta-da’ list!
I have always loved making “to-do lists”, and I rely on them to be productive, but I’ve recently started a…