Phil Wade Interviews: Akos Gerold
Phil Wade Interviews: Akos Gerold How do you define what you do? Are you a teacher? A trainer? A coach? A skills developer? I say I am a business communication […]
Book Review: Text Chat Activities
Text Chat Activities A few months ago, I received an email from Mark Oliver who was keen for me to review his self-published book entitled “Text Chat Activities: A resource […]
A talk about IELTS with Fabiana Traversin
. IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System. It is accepted by the governments in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Interest in the exam has […]
Celpe-Bras: Ideas for English Language Testing
Celpe-Bras: Ideas for English Language Testing Celpe-Bras stands for Certificado de Proficiência em Língua Portuguesa para Estrangeiros (in English: Portuguese Language Proficiency Exam for Foreigners). It is the only proficiency […]
The Good, The Bad, And The Online
The Good, The Bad, And The Online How many of you have ever been introduced as an English teacher at a party and the first response is “Can you help […]
Should I Mind My Own Beeswax?
Should I mind my own Beeswax? WELL, EXCUSE ME! I made the mistake today of commenting on a colleague’s Facebook post, an English teacher from Russia, mentioning that the expression […]
Copernicus Goes To China: The Sounds Of English
Copernicus Goes To China: The Sounds Of English This column is named after the 16th-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who argued that “the heavenly bodies do not all move round […]
Copernicus Goes To Rio: Soft Voices And Guitars
Copernicus Goes To Rio: Soft Voices And Guitars “We are this giant country in the southern hemisphere, highly mixed racially. We are Latin Americans, but we are not one with […]
Copernicus: Nobody is Special in Today’s English Speaking Universe
The Copernican Principle – named after the 16th-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus – says that there are no ‘special’ observers. In other words, we can explain how the universe works […]