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my pet hate phrase is "my bad", i remember hearing it on tv a couple of years ago thinking that will never catch on, but the other day i heard my 11yr old daughter using it

Hi Melodie, I'm currrently teaching nurses from China preparing to undertake a bachelor of nursing course in New Zealand. We focus a lot on reading and writing skills in preparation for university, we use local tv programmes for selecting and teaching some vocab and basically shadow the first year a...

Hi there, with young learners is really important to have fun, also although listening is a priority try them out with some tongue twisters as aids to pronunciation, the best would be Dr Zeus.

for the last few years i've been teaching english for nursing purposes here in New Zealand and i've been dealing mostly with young chinese women who have been trained and have had some experience nursing in their native country and are looking to find employment and residency overseas. recently, i'v...

i did a similar sounding research and found flash cards very effective, the target language on one side and L1 on the other, can be used in small group work as well. this is supposing your learners share a common L1 of course.

thanks for the reply, and i was very interested in what you have to say. my post graduate would be a post graduate diploma in international business studies not an MBA and once that is completed i'm thinking of either the far east or the middle east. financially and time wise this would be a big dec...

yeah, that's where i am at the moment, i enjoy teaching academic english, and nursing english, whereas general english i find kind of pointless. with business english, however, are the jobs still in private schools or with the corporations themselves?

I've recently completed a masters in language teaching and looking around it seems pretty obvious that if I want to make enough money to get some savings together, business english is the way to go. although i've been teaching 6 years, i'm currently thinking i will have to do a postgrad in business...

Currently doing a master in language teaching and for one of the papers I must prepare something about linguistic imperialism. As I understand it, linguistic imperialism is suggesting that the spread of English language teaching has as a secondary effect, the spread of English culture and values. Th...

Yeah, nutmeg is a bona fide technical term in soccer which means you have put the ball through the opposing player's leg and run past him and collected the ball. Very hard to do. Otherwise going past the player is simply going past, can't think of a specialised word or phrase.

The Lexical Approach, again!! Such a well written book, and have just finished Teaching Academic ESL Writing: Hinkel Eli which answers all my questions about writing

My intuition says most common, the alternative to me sounds clumsy.

The majority of my students are young Chinese studying English in New Zealand with the hope of getting an IELTS score and then going to university or polytechnic in NZ. I believe then the aim is to find a job, and get permanent residence. So their primary motivation is immigration/further studying/f...

The majority of my students are young Chinese studying English in New Zealand with the hope of getting an IELTS score and then going to university or polytechnic in NZ. I believe then the aim is to find a job, and get permanent residence. So their primary motivation is immigration/further studying/f...

Couldn't leave this site till I added my tuppence. At the moment I'm teaching English for Nursing at quite a low level, the primary function of the course we have established is to act as a transitionary period for second language learners who which to study nursing once they have obtained the relev...