Exam tips for first-time takers
With exams just around the corner, we are all feeling a whirlwind of emotions, students and teachers alike. When May…
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Breathe In, Stress Out: How Mindfulness and Breathing Can Save Your Students from Exam Meltdowns
The Great Exam Panic of the Century Picture this: A student sits in an exam room, gripping their pen like…
A view on “easy” exams
Recently I received a student who has sat for a specific B2 level EFL exam four times already. She has…
Bridging Global Standards with Local Needs: Advancing English Language Education and Qualifications in Greece
A conversation with Maria Alafogianni, BA, MA, MIL, Dip Trans, MSc Counselling and Positive Psychology, CEO B.E.S.A Maria Alafogianni has…
How AI EdWiBo Transformed My Teaching Life
After forty years in English language teaching – many of them as a Director of Studies – I thought I…
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When marking was introduced in the nineteenth century, it transformed education by embedding the idea that intelligence is something fixed…
Word Stories: go
Here goes. I’m going to have a go at dealing with go, one of the commonest, and most complicated, verbs…
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THE CARROT, THE EGG AND THE COFFEE BEAN?
Mum watched Anna looking puzzled and worried and asked. “What’s wrong?” Shrugging her shoulders, Anna shook her head with a…
To whatever we have achieved, ego is the enemy
We are all successful as teachers in our own unique ways. Success in the classroom presents us with two different…