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I love this picture..they're all eggs, but just look at the variety. And it's the same in any class. Differentiation can be defined as: “….identifying and addressing the different needs, interests and abilities of all learners to give them the best possible chance of achieving their learning goals.” (Standards Unit, Improving differentiation in business education,… Via Shona Whyte 
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Why should French teachers talk about teaching in English? After all, a good deal of professional discussion among French secondary school teachers of English will be with French colleagues: mentor teachers, peers, university tutors and inspectors. Via Shona Whyte
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"Apparently, just 12 lexical verbs (say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, take, want, give, and mean) account for 45% of lexical verbs used in conversation. Biber and Reppern suggest that, since they are so frequently used in speech, these verbs require more attention in class than they currently do, judging by the coursebooks that they reviewed, and that they should be used more to exemplify various grammar structures.
I’m thinking of giving the students an occasional gap-fill exercise based on the reading and listening texts that we are working on, with these verbs gapped out. Finding and replacing the various forms of these verbs could be time-consuming, but there’s a free nifty little text editor called Notepad++ in which one can make such a gap-fill exercise in one click.
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Blogging (Dave Dodgson) Observation (Dale Coulter) Self-doubt (John Pfordresher) Things I wish I'd known (various) Code (Muralee Navaratnam) EMI (CLIL; Charlotte Giller) IATEFL information
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I teach English as a foreign language, meaning that I’ve lived in various places around the world, including Czech Republic, Paraguay, Borneo and Crimea. I’m Via Shona Whyte
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As an EFL teacher in a secondary school in Geneva I sometimes feel on the edge of everything; -the teaching PLN on twitter seems to be mainly UK based (maybe I’m missing an enormous vibrant community of motivated French-speaking teachers from my... Via Shona Whyte
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Every Monday students find slips of paper waiting on their desks when they arrive and I encourage them to write about something great that happened over the last seven days. Via Shona Whyte
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We all have our go-to activities – those activities that we have found to be effective for our context, students, and style. I’d like to share a few of my favorite ways to teach vocabulary.
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