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Podcast Recommendation: What on Earth is a Noun Phrase?

Posted on April 28, 2021 by Tim Warre

If you’re an English teacher or linguist, check out the great new podcast What on Earth is a Noun Phrase? by Oxford Language Performance. In each episode they speak to a different practitioner in the field of EFL or linguistics and interview them about their area/passion. The episodes are short, insightful, and full of great tips and tools for teachers. You can find them wherever you normally get your podcasts or sign up through their website below:

https://oxfordlp.org/podcast/

You can also follow them on Twitter @whatonearthisa

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Smart Classroom Management

Posted on June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 by Tim Warre

Just stumbled upon this great Classroom Management blog by Michael Linsin, full of great tips for dealing with troublesome classes and students.

https://www.smartclassroommanagement.com/

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Amazing Resources from Cork English Teacher

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Tim Warre

I’ve reposted a few of his phrase sheets before but check out this amazing bank of fantastic resources from his Facebook page:

Cork English Teacher

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Englishwithjo.com – Conspiracy Theories

Posted on January 10, 2016January 10, 2016 by Tim Warre

Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio

I’ve just recently found the excellent englishwithjo.com. It’s a great site full of engaging video based conversation activities. I’m going to do her new one on conspiracy theories with a proficiency class tomorrow. I’ve made a little worksheet with some extra vocabulary for higher levels. Download it below:

Conspiracy Theories

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TEFLtastic Blog

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Tim Warre

Just stumbled upon the TEFLtastic blog and it’s full of amazing materials. I’ve added it to my blogroll and I’m going to be using a lot of their great FCE speaking materials this year. Check it out.

https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/

https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/exams/cambridge-exams/fce/fce-speaking/fce-sp-parts-three-four/

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Macmillan’s free online resources are amazing!!

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Tim Warre

Thanks to my colleague Raquel Gomez for introducing me to Macmillan’s amazing database of resources:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/english-language-resources.html

She focused specifically on the pragmatics section in a seminar she recently gave in my school. She ran an experiment last year using the materials to boost scores for FCE and CAE speaking exams so I’m going to try them out for myself today, starting with this one on agreeing and disagreeing:

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/external/pdf/expressing-yourself-agree.pdf?version=2015-09-07-1650

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Boardwork tips from ELTPlanning

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Tim Warre

Here’s a fantastic post from ELTplanning on ways to improve your boardwork. Check it out:

16 ways to improve your whiteboard work

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Great Game Templates from Adam Simpson

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Tim Warre

Check out these fantastic posts from Adam Simpson featuring powerpoint templates you can use to play “Blockbusters” and “Who wants to be a millionaire?”

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CAE Part 2 example tasks

Posted on March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 by Tim Warre

Here’s a link to some examples of part 2 from the Deesite blog:

https://deesite.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/picures-for-speaking-part-2-cae-book-4/

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Easy English Articles

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Tim Warre

Check out Jess’s great site: Easy English Articles

http://easyenglisharticles.com/

It has a great selection of short current affairs topics to generate conversation and learn new vocab. It also has lesson plans, grammar explanations and even offers to correct short texts!