Entertaining ways of revising
Revise, Remember, Use Have you ever experienced the pain of endless revision lessons with doing numerous vocabulary and grammar exercises? Sounds like a nightmare all of us would like to avoid. Let’s save the...
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Swearing
This month, I’m going to look at swearing, so please be advised that there may be some naughty words in this text and reference to some subjects which readers might find offensive or embarrassing....
English essence. A mini-guide to the English character
The English language is one of the most basic and indispensable agents of intellectual, scientific, business and artistic progress. It enables and facilitates exchange of thought, linking people of very different cultures and professional...
How to correct speaking mistakes and not discourage students from opening their mouth?
When it comes to correcting students’ mistakes, I have a mental picture of my university tutor in my mind. My role model. I can vividly remember her attitude to our mistakes or wrong answers...
Creative and personal responses to literary texts in ELT
While there are many benefits to the use of literary texts in English Language Teaching (Xerri & Xerri Agius, 2012), a teacher-centred approach hampers the process of exploiting such texts for language learning purposes....
Expanding learners’ limits – How to speed up learning?
In this article, I would like to introduce you to some really important ideas regarding speeding up learning as a process that are brought from TED. In my opinion, this could be a very...
Drama and project work in English lessons
Drama and project work are one of many active methods which can be successfully applied during the educational process of teaching the English language to young learners. Those two mentioned methods not only are...
YouTube we use
YouTube service is such a big, interesting, funny and colorful bag of music videos that it’s a pity not to take advantage of it in foreign language lessons. From Kamil Bolek’s presentation on Campus...
EDU IT Trends – marzec 2017 (podsumowanie)
Obecność nowych technologii jest nieunikniona w każdej dziedzinie naszego życia, a więc również na uczelniach wyższych. Zagadnienie ma w tym przypadku kilka różnych odsłon: prawną, moralną i czysto technologiczną. O każdej z nich staraliśmy...
‘All together now’: using songs and actions for kindergarten classroom management
There are many reasons for using songs and actions in the kindergarten classroom. They’re memorable, they engage different types of learners, channel energy effectively and – best of all – they’re enjoyable. But songs...
