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Do You Ever….
How I've been feeling (photo by Kalexanderson - CC through Flickr) …feel discouraged, as a teacher? I’m going to take a risk here and say you have. As a teacher I sometimes feel like I am not doing my...
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Are We Adjusting?
Are we ready for the students we have? Something funny happened to me this last week… In a B1 (more like a B2, really) group of teens I have (14-15 years-old students) group I have we are discussing...
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Iatefl Blues, yellows and greens. And a sense of direction.
Blues, Yellows and Greens... Pick your color! (Photo by Max A Mauchline on ELTPics - CC license) Another Annual IATEFL Conference has come to an end. An intense week of attending presentations,...
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About Kindness…. and The Way it Comes Back to You
So, I know I have been away from my blog. For a number of personal aspects I haven’t had time write on the blog. I miss it, and I hope the overwhelming period is over. So, for my first post after such...
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Teaching is like…
Brad Patterson felt the ELT Blogosphere was a bit quiet these days and decided to shake things up a bit by proposing a new blog challenge: What is you teaching metaphor? The challenge is very simple:...
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Hi, my name is Cecilia and I am a recovering recaster
A Recasters Anonymous Meeting… would you be in it? Setting: RA (Recasters Anonymous) Meeting, in a dark basement somewhere we can’t mention… Me: Hi, my name is Cecilia… and I am a recovering recaster....
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A Valentine’s Activity Talking About Gestures
Just a quick post in honor of Valentine’s Day (or “Dia dos Namorados”) in Brazil, which takes place on June 12th. I have always been fascinated by the video clip for Paul McCartney’s “My Valentine”...
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#ELTchat: the loss of eltchat.com – Plan B : A Repost
I haven’t posted in a long while, partly due to lack of time – traveling, too much work and too many projects. I hope things will slow down a bit soon. And partly because I’ve been thinking a lot...
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The Worst Class I have Ever Taught… So What?
Today I taught what I (now) feel might have been the worst class I have ever taught in nearly 20 years of ELT. To add to it (or just because Murphy loves me…) I was being observed by my school’s...
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A New Mantra
Last Friday I delivered a talk to a fantastic audience of English teachers in Brasília, Brazil. It was the final session after a full day of lots of interesting sessions, filled with practical ideas,...
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The 11 Challenge – The person behind the blog
Hello blog! Long (long, long, long) time no see!!! It’s been quite a year, which will be a blog on its own. And I’m not sure the readers of this blog will be impressed by this “come-back” post. But...
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Answers to 11 Questions from the 11 Blog Challenge
Source: http://wendyloudesigns.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/april-number.html So, here are my answers to the questions the people who have tagged me in the “11 Blog Challenge”. Since I was tagged by Carol...
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The Day a Bunch of Kisses Turned into Magic
It has been a long, looong while since I’ve last written here, in my blog. And before the last time it had also been a long while. I could use this post to explain the reason for the hiatus (which...
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