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Friday Fun: The History of English #3

The series of posts about the history of the English language continues with this video about Shakespeare and his impact on the development of English. Have you ever seen a Shakespeare play? Can you recognise any of the roots of … Continue reading

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Friday Fun: ‘Romans Go Home’

Seeing as it’s Friday I thought it would be time to post something for a bit of fun! Hopefully you’ve all seen the excellent ‘Life of Brian’ by the Monty Python guys. This is an excellent excerpt from the film … Continue reading

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Friday Meeting 4/11/2011

How can we effectively teach Business English? We have been debating for a while about the difference between General English and Business English. The structures that business English students have to learn are the same as general English students. Now, … Continue reading

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Friday Meeting 28/10/2011

This weeks meeting focused solely on students. How to evaluate students? How many levels exist in English? and teaching students who don’t want to learn. We often find that when level testing students they are placed in the wrong groups/levels. … Continue reading

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Friday Meeting 30/09/2011

Topics covered this week: – S1 (Beginners) Course. – Add more vocabulary? (not in the Target Language) – Oxbridge Students. – A new project called ‘learning capsules’.   Building blocks: We finally have class 1 ready to test out(consisting of 4 … Continue reading

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1) Pronunciation or phonetics, 2) Problems in a class, 3) Regarding Beginners (S1)

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