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- Active And Passive Exercise
1. Letters by the postman .................. at 8 every day. (deliver) 2. The ring ................ in the corner yesterday. (find) 3. The woolen dress cannot ...........in hot water. (cannot wash) 4. Has your car ...............? (repair)...
- Writing About Thinking About Thinking About A Lesson
Photo by xrrr on flickr - fotopediaI've had discussions before with people about whether David Beckham is intelligent or not. Personally, I will defend his dignity and not just because he was a Manchester United player, honestly. What it all comes...
- Do All Your Classes Get The Same Attention?
I have found while doing my MA course that it is very difficult to give the same amount of effort and focus to all the different modules of the course. Currently, I am engaged in four different modules and two of them are proving to be more interesting...
- Back To (web) Life
I have finally settled somewhere and (fingers crossed) after Wednesday I'll have a good home internet connection. I'm now based in Manchester, where I am studying full-time on an MA Educational Technology and TESOL course. I arrived last week...
- Semi-colon (;)
1. We sometimes use a semi-colon instead of a full stop or period. This is to separate sentences that are grammatically independent but that have closely connected meaning. Josef likes coffee; Mary likes tea. Tara is a good speaker; she speaks very clearly....
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IATEFL here I come!
This weekend is the IATEFL conference in Brighton and tomorrow I will be heading down there. I am extremely excited about meeting so many of the interesting people I have met and interacted with online over the last year or so as well as finding out about new and exciting things from the sessions I attend. I've been looking at the conference programme and I'm already completely overwhelmed by everything on offer but I've prepared a little bit and made some choices about which sessions to go to, so I hope to hit the ground running.
I am delighted that my blog was chosen to be shown in the ELT Blogosphere Symposium video. I fully intend to go along to the symposium but I'm torn by the fact that Manchester United are playing Manchester City in the FA Cup semi-final at the same time! Thank goodness for smartphones - I think I'll sneakily be following the BBC updates on the internet during that.
I am planning to make notes and post some conference journal style articles here on the blog, but I'm sure I'll be kept busy by all the sessions and some social action. I'll try my best, but I'm not promising anything. I'm already panicking a bit about the amount of work I need to do for my MA over the next few months, in May in particular, so there won't be much time for blogging.
Ok, well, if you're in Brighton and you see some tall bloke who looks a bit scruffy and might need a hair-cut, it might be me, so come and say hello! : )
Late addition: I'd also like to point out that after my MA finishes at the end of August I'll be looking for a job, so if you have any ideas, suggestions or offers, let me know! ; )
Late addition: I'd also like to point out that after my MA finishes at the end of August I'll be looking for a job, so if you have any ideas, suggestions or offers, let me know! ; )
- Active And Passive Exercise
1. Letters by the postman .................. at 8 every day. (deliver) 2. The ring ................ in the corner yesterday. (find) 3. The woolen dress cannot ...........in hot water. (cannot wash) 4. Has your car ...............? (repair)...
- Writing About Thinking About Thinking About A Lesson
Photo by xrrr on flickr - fotopediaI've had discussions before with people about whether David Beckham is intelligent or not. Personally, I will defend his dignity and not just because he was a Manchester United player, honestly. What it all comes...
- Do All Your Classes Get The Same Attention?
I have found while doing my MA course that it is very difficult to give the same amount of effort and focus to all the different modules of the course. Currently, I am engaged in four different modules and two of them are proving to be more interesting...
- Back To (web) Life
I have finally settled somewhere and (fingers crossed) after Wednesday I'll have a good home internet connection. I'm now based in Manchester, where I am studying full-time on an MA Educational Technology and TESOL course. I arrived last week...
- Semi-colon (;)
1. We sometimes use a semi-colon instead of a full stop or period. This is to separate sentences that are grammatically independent but that have closely connected meaning. Josef likes coffee; Mary likes tea. Tara is a good speaker; she speaks very clearly....