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Do you mean like this?

http://tefltastic.wordpress.com/2007/08 ... -schedule/

While I found the "I come from Sssssssspain" thing useful there, with Japanese and Korean learners who add syllables to supringu (spring) etc I find the best approach is to ignore the sounds and just concentrate on number of syllables. Don't know why, just seems to work better (at least during contr...

When the Japanese say "drama" (more like dorama in Japanese), they basically mean a soap opera, the main difference being that Japanese (and the even more popular Korean ones) have a limited time span (usually a year or two max) rather than carrying on indefinitely like British or American ones.

This is a good summary with links:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/trans ... ifications

I did the LCCI one, so let me know if you have any questions

I had the same problems with the chicken thing, especially as I've taught all my students to say "sugar" instead :) So, I designed a task a few years ago that doesn't involve getting the whole lyrics, but just the useful adjectives. It's also a lot more active and fun than a usual song task. Just pu...

"Is it because the UK ones are based on corpora taken from around the world, rather than just one place?"

Is that true? British grammar books often don't seem to know that Am Eng exists, let alone the rest of the world

Sorry not to be able to reply in the amusing tone of the post, but... I think it's just part of the surprisingly strong position that British publishers have in the ELT world market in general. The main reason is that American publishers can still make much more money in the US producing materials f...

"why is Wall Street so popular"

Marketing. I'd be very surprised if they have good student retention rates

As I offer my activities for free and make no money from them, I don't make any particular claims for them or how they will work with other people's classes, but with the classes I wrote these for they worked really well. They give the idea that Past Continuous is basically Present Continuous in the...

This must be the most vital reading on this methodology:

http://tefltradesman.blogspot.com/2009/ ... ogy-2.html

Or maybe you are underestimating the difficulty. I've done the courses and reading I suggested, and a proper ESP needs analysis and course design approach was totally new to me even four years after doing the CELTA. The only other solution would seem to be to choose textbooks and use different ones ...

Quite a few worksheets for fun practice of Past Continuous on my blog here:

http://tefltastic.wordpress.com/workshe ... past-cont/

That's a huge question! I'd recommend taking a course of teaching business English, e.g. the ones run by Trinity or LCCI, and if not at least reading books on the topic.

www.onestopenglish.com is probably worth the money. Having said that, you have to pay to see my worksheets there but can get them for free at

http://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/

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http://www.usingenglish.com/profiles/vi ... ributions/

Hi Fluffy, it has been a while... The Macmillan website Onestopclil is probably the best first stop to find out more about CLIL, especially this page (which is also free, unlike most of the material): http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?theme=mag&catid=280 I only glanced at this, but it looks lik...