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E NGLISH
Issue 60
January
2009
T EACHING
T EACHING
professional
The Leading Practical Magazine For English Language Teachers Worldwide
Confidence tricks
Malcolm Griffiths
Mixed ability or
mixed blessing?
Marta Essinki
Meet the Twitterati
Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney
From ‘me’ to ‘my profession’
Duncan Foord
• practical methodology
• fresh ideas & innovations
• classroom resources
• new technology
vkcom/engshbrary
• teacher development
• tips & techniques
• photocopiable materials
• competitions & reviews
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Contents
Contents
MAIN FEATURE
BUSINESS ENGLISH PROFESSIONAL
CONFIDENCE TRICKS
4
SELF-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
27
Malcolm Griffiths suggests ways in which
teachers can both acquire confidence and inspire
it in their learners
John Hughes provides paths for business English
teachers to pursue professional development
TEACHER DEVELOPMENT
FEATURES
FROM ‘ME’ TO ‘MY PROFESSION’
49
AN AUTHENTIC DEBATE
8
Duncan Foord circles in on professional development
Geoff Perrin considers the ‘authentic versus standard’
question and champions spoken prose
TECHNOLOGY
MIXED ABILITY OR MIXED BLESSING?
12
Marta Essinki looks at the practical and positive
implications of differentiated classrooms
MEET THE TWITTERATI
57
Nicky Hockly and Gavin Dudeney recommend
that we start tweeting
WICKED RHYMES
15
Mark Almond describes how he got his
students rapping
INTO THE BEEHIVE
59
Sotiria Koui combines textbook and technology
I THINK, THEREFORE I LEARN 3
18
WEBWATCHER
61
Tessa Woodward gets her students thinking
in two different directions
Russell Stannard finds a new favourite website
for listening materials
THAT WORD!
20
Alice Chan tackles the technicalities of that
REGULAR FEATURES
BALANCING ACT
29
ACTIVITY CORNER:
37
Purificación Sánchez combines the teaching
of language and literature
THREE EARLY-ELEMENTARY
COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES
Jon Marks
TALKING ABOUT VERBS
34
Johanna Stirling believes we need to terminate
our current terminology
PREPARING TO TEACH ...
40
Permission, warnings, obligations and prohibitions
John Potts
THE READING EXPERIENCE
46
Bruce Milne thinks a coordinated effort is needed
to get students reading
EYE ON THE CLASSROOM:
SNAPSHOTS OF A LESSON
52
John Hughes
DON’T TAKE IT PERSONALLY
56
Paul Bress reveals the reasons for teachers’
reactions
PITFALLS IN TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS
63
Rose Senior
IT WORKS IN PRACTICE
42
TEACHING YOUNG LEARNERS
REVIEWS
44
MEET THE PARENTS
23
SCRAPBOOK
54
Caroline Linse advocates paying particular attention
to parental involvement
COMPETITIONS
41, 64
Includes materials designed to photocopy
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Editorial
Editorial
T he first month of the year is traditionally a
future behaviour may be influenced by an
understanding of the past.
time for looking forward and looking back,
hence the name January , derived from
Janus, the two-headed god of beginnings and
endings in Roman mythology. The latest article in
Tessa Woodward’s series on thinking is, therefore,
appropriate to this time of year as it recommends
that we encourage students to be both forward-
thinking and backward-looking in their management
of their learning.
Looking in two different directions also implies an
ability to combine different elements, and this idea,
too, is reflected in this issue’s articles. Purificación
Sánchez discusses how literature and language
teaching can be successfully combined, while Sotiria
Koui unites textbook and technology to give her
students a more rounded experience.
Whatever your viewpoint or the direction in which
you are facing, I wish you a prosperous and
successful year ahead.
Duncan Foord also recommends, if not a change of
direction, at least a development of the direction in
which we look for professional development:
beginning with ourselves and then moving further out
in concentric circles to our students, our colleagues,
our institutions and, finally, our profession as a whole.
Paul Bress suggests that we look back at our
childhoods for clues as to why we react to students
in the way that we sometimes do, and thinks that our
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