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Predictions 2010 - 2019 (Lesson Plan)
Probably one of the easiest, getting-back-in-the-groove, sans materials, dogmesque lesson I can think of:Step 1Write 2009 on the boardAsk students to quickly jot down a list of the 5 most important things that happened to them (and/or their companies...
Bring on the teenies...
The decade of the uh-oh's is finally done.Hallelujah!!For me those ten years were made up of:A marriage... a divorce, surviving volcanic eruptions and political coups, moving from South America to Germany, completing a full-length screenplay, not sel...
Conversations at Christmas
Confession:Christmas is not my favorite holiday.It's my least favorite.To go into all the reasons for that would be dull...I could say I don't like the materialism, am not a big fan of shopping or crowded markets - suffer from glühwein headaches... ...
The walls that divide us
(A Business English/EFL/ESP:marketing lesson)After having lived, worked and taught English all over the world, I've noticed that cultures differ from workplace to workspace and this cultural divide isn't limited to the country of residence, nor to t...
Smart Phones Meeting (EFL Business English Lesson)
These days, at least over here in Europe, smart phones are about as commonplace as, er... um, desks.So let's use them to teach with...Lesson objective:Practice the language of arranging meetingsProcedure (1):You can easily dogme this lesson - simply ...
If I won €10, if I won €100, if I won €1000, then I would...
The other day on Lindsay Clandfield's blog, he did a posting entitled Six Tired Examples for Teaching Grammar, including the standard, seen EVERYWHERE: in every coursebook and every grammar book ever published in the history of ELT, er, 'xcuse me whi...
The Susan Boyle EFL Video Lesson
What is your secret ambition?If you could go back in time, do something else or be someone else what would you do? What do you still hope to achieve before you die?Susan Boyle, a Scottish, unemployed 47 year woman just stumbled into fame and fell in...
An Interview With Roubini and Taleb - ESP Financial English
Recently at the World Economic Forum, Roubini and Taleb drew a standing room only crowd with an audience which included Bill Gates and Michael Dell. These very learned men were then interviewed by CNBC in a chaotic and ill prepared session.Copies o...
