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Keith Copley reports on his survey of the experiences of teachers around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown, and the impact on their working conditions and wellbeing.
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Lara Statham gets her students to complete a diagram to identify areas of language learning that they want or need to focus on and increase their motivation to work outside the classroom.
Riccardo Chiappini offers ten tips to encourage learner autonomy and persuade students to become involved in the process of learning and share responsibility for their progress.
James Heal recommends fostering learner independence by maximising students’ input in lessons and by encouraging them to make and bring teaching materials.
Enda Scott offers essential advice for taking control of online teaching, overcoming its challenges and exploiting its potential advantages in order to achieve success.
Sean Toland presents a roleplay which involves assessing YouTube videos and interviewing social media stars, and which should capture the interests and imaginations of teenagers.
David Heathfield uses a Tunisian tale about a trickster who traps a rich man with a supposedly magic mouse, to show how students can retell tales in online breakout rooms.
A selection of activities using home-made word cards, an activity involving creating tableaux of famous artworks and a treasure hunt activity in It works in practice.
Gems, titbits, puzzles, foibles, quirks, bits & pieces, quotations, snippets, odds & ends on the theme of incompetent criminals. Includes photocopiable materials.
Thomas Ziegelwagner uses timelines which include colour and black and white photographs to help his students understand aspect and grasp the subtle differences in the use of tenses.
Sharon Hartle gets her students to use corpora (accessed by means of sophisticated digital corpus interfaces) to find information about collocations and lexical usage.
