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Do Schools Kill Creativity?

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson recently challenged the way we educate our children and made a profound case stating that schools undermine rather than nurture. He feels that ‘‘we are educating people out of their creativity,” and that children today … Continue reading

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S1 Question/Answer Guide

This is a handy guide for S1 students to understand the structures of Questions and Answers using auxiliaries and interrogative pronouns.

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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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Oxbridge Madrid – ‘Working Together, Sharing Experiences’

  OXBRIDGE and CIBALL kindly invite you to our English teachers´ meeting named Working Together, Sharing Experiences which will take place on Thursday the 3rd of November in Madrid. We are creating a community of English teachers from public and … Continue reading

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Oxbridge TEFL – World Teachers’ Day 5th October 2011

  World Teachers’ Day was introduced by UNESCO on the 5th of October 1994 and has been celebrated ever since. It is a day to show your token of appreciation for teachers who are constantly working their way to improving … 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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Friday Meeting 23/09/2011

Developing the S1 Beginners Course Teaching Beginners in any language can be a daunting task, which is why this week, a group of teachers set up a workshop in order to improve the S1 course. We came up with the … Continue reading

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Oxbridge TEFL – How to remember tenses and tense formation in English

Have you missed this important session about tenses in English? Do you find it difficult to remember all these names with Latin roots? Do they not make any sense to you and just thinking about them makes you feel dizzy? … Continue reading

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Oxbridge TEFL – In the beginning was the word…

I wanted to pay tribute to the opening of the Bible (John 1:1) in relation to the upcoming No Pens Day initiative in the UK. I wanted to go back to the roots, to the origins of what we consider … Continue reading

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

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