Like many teachers, I love expressions and sayings in the classroom. What I like about an idiom such as “The grass is always greener on the other side” is that it offers us such good value for money. Some possibilities:
Find out if students have an equivalent saying in their language
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Imagine you had a one-to-one with a woman who described herself as technologically challenged. She was given an ipod for Christmas and has been relying on her daughter to download music onto it. She is complaining because her daughter is starting to get bored of her job as a personal IT assistant and without the […]
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This was the title of a presentation I gave at TESOL-Spain in San Sebastian last year and I have just received an email from a teacher (hello Abbie) asking for information on it.
Content and Language Integrated Learning refers to the approach of teaching curricular subjects (history, science, art, etc) and a foreign language at the […]
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