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Project-based learning, the USA and Authentic Video in the EFL classroom
Part 1 The Globe Trekker/Pilot Guides video collection is a treasure trove for any English teacher. It encompasses extensive material from every corner of the world, and especially English-speaking...
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The Cooking Show – the Next Generation Jamie Olivers
I was walking to school one autumn day four years ago, when all of a sudden I got this idea that would in fact later generate a whole range of other similar ideas for all ages and all levels. We had...
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TV-reporters, Hobbies and Interviews
In last week’s Cooking Show I described my first stumbling steps into the world of video production with my students. In spite of the shortcomings the experience did whet my appetite for more...
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A Very Short Post on A Simple Chart for the Simple Verb Tenses
So, does she never teach any grammar, just play with fun stuff like videos and word games? you probably ask by now. Yes, I do teach grammar, but less and less the older and wiser (?) I get. But when I...
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Some Things Never Change, or Do They?
However hard you try, there are some things one can’t get around in learning a language and in English (and German and Swedish…) one of those would be learning the irregular verbs by heart. You can...
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England, Oh England (and a little bit of Wales) – From Authentic Video to...
Part 1 of an amazing three-part film on England and Wales that Ella Grangärd and Amanda Niskanen made for their English class in grade 8. This creative duo had a vision and went all out to make it...
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Being a TV News Anchor
In what ways could the latest radio news or news podcasts be preferrable to textbooks in the language classroom? - authentic language by native speakers - real topics happening in the world right then,...
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New year and back to work!
Back again after a long break from work. Major surgery and some other stuff made me concentrate on reading for fun (discovered Martina Cole’s novels – highly recommendable and absolutely...
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The Tower of London
After working with sights and history of London for a number of lessons, the 7th grade students were faced with one last task: I had some misgivings as the video was an authentic and official...
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A text, extensive vocabulary, L1 and collaborative learning
Today’s post will be exclusively in pictures, and will reflect a lot of my views on classroom learning (this time with no technology involved with the exception of the video projector for the...
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Sunday preparations
Can’t help but revert to videos in my English teaching over and over again, authentic ones as well as a means of student presentation. Have just edited a 50-minute tour of Scotland and cut it into 25...
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Ghosts…
Might be appropriate in the dark dreary days of November and a week after Halloween with a tale of Scottish ghosts and blood-dripping history. Here a task based on the first 4 minutes of this video...
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I made a video version from a gamified quiz on New York City involving reading comprehension, image recognition and cultural knowledge. Could be used as end of term task or just for personal...
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2016 – Annus Horribilis… or not?
I find myself having very much mixed feelings about this year that’s drawing to its close soon. Awfully dark in many ways, and so joyful in others. And I’m not going to do any dwelling on what’s...
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Knitting, knitting as if my life depended on it… Just kidding ;)
But there has been a lot of knitting involved in the last two years. Sweaters and cardigans in droves: Baby garments as I’ve become both a maternal and a paternal grandma: Even dozens of new...
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Fair Isle knitting
My latest passion involves the British tradition of multi-colour stranded knitting and has resulted in my knitting book library growing by a number of new acquisitions. This is my knitting book library...
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Blue Anemone Girl – Blåveispiken – Flickan med blåsippor
One of the first cardigans for adults I made during this latest 2-year-long knitting craze was this spring inspired garment. It’s named after the beautiful pennywort that heralds spring and the...
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Alpaca – So Soft & So Warm…
One of my favourite materials to work in – Alpaca. Here a collage of some of my Alpaca sweaters and cardigans, all in Drops Alpaca. Drops Alpaca comes in lots of beautiful shades and if they’re not...
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