Job interview
For the Trinity assessed lesson, my class did job interviews. I can warmly recommend the topic to other teachers who have to do a Trinity diploma or DELTA assessed lesson, especially if your class is as motivated as ours was, and job interviews are in fact on their agenda. It obviously helps to choose a […]
Varieties of English and EIL/ELF
Just revising for the exam, and know I won’t remember much. Mark had a funny acronym for this condition: CRS, can’t remember shit. Yesterday I learned quite a lot because my concentration was up, so I got some connections that I’d missed before. But this morning, I’m having trouble remembering my middle name. This was […]
Elevator speeches
audio: E.O.Wilson 45 second elevator speech
Coming up: A Business English/ ESP blog carnival
As announced by Larry Ferlazzo, coming up on 1 November, there’ll be a blog carnival – that is, a round-up of posts submitted by bloggers for the purpose – dedicated to the teaching of Business English and English for Special Purposes, here on this blog. If you’re a blogger, please use this form to submit […]
Janelle Monae: Tightrope
My exciting news this week is that we’re moving to Berlin. Helmut has a new job. He told me a few years ago that he didn’t want to climb the social ladder (Karriere machen), but here he is, with new challenges. So babe, this song is dedicated to you, with all of my love. Keep […]
Grammar Guru: Similar, but different: appointment, date, meeting
They’re similar, but different: * meeting * appointment * date Can you schedule a/an _________________ for the project team? ɯɐǝʇ ɐ ɥʇıʍ ƃuıʇǝǝɯ ɐ ǝlnpǝɥɔs I want to make a/an ___________________ with Mr Hoss to discuss the CERT project. ǝuoǝɯos ɥʇıʍ ʇuǝɯʇuıoddɐ uɐ ǝʞɐɯ Can we fix a/an ______________________ for the next meeting? ʇuǝʌǝ ʎuɐ […]
The challenge of compacts
My last two-day compact for PAs didn’t go quite as well as they usually do, leaving me pondering what went wrong. As I’m teaching quite a number of similar ones in the upcoming weeks, I need to pause and think things through in depth, because I want the next ones to go better. The conditions […]
