Tag Archives: conversation

A bird in the hand

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Ceri Jones

Photo by ALP STUDIO on Unsplash Another quick and simple task with minimal resources. With my current group of teachers, a mixture of content teachers teaching through the medium of English and English language teachers, we have a “cultural curiosity” corner each class.  … Continue reading →

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In the flow

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Ceri Jones

[photo credit Nathan Hall, eltpics, Water] A very small thing has prompted me to write again. It was a speaking task, an incredibly simple speaking task that  I hadn’t expected to take off as it did. It was the first … Continue reading →

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Three things for a first class

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Ceri Jones

I’d like to share a post I wrote recently for the British Council Teaching English blog site. It may be a bit late for some of you, or maybe not really relevant at this time of year, but hopefully some … Continue reading →

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What’s my role?

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Ceri Jones

[part of an on-going series about teaching an A1.1 class using a negotiated-syllabus approach] As soon as we’d finished our class yesterday, I sat down at the computer to write a summary – not for the class, but for myself.  … Continue reading →

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following a thread

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Ceri Jones

A storm has blown up once again in the blogosphere over grammar McNuggets and it got me thinking about how I serve them up with my present class of beginners. So I decided to pick out one particular nugget and … Continue reading →

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talking dogme (2) looking back

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Ceri Jones

This week has been a fairly busy week, a lot of hours away from my computer screen for a change, and lots of walks in and out of shady Plaza Mina in the centre of old town Cádiz.  That’s where … Continue reading →

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talking dogme

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Ceri Jones

Tomorrow morning (Saturday, May 4), I’m attending a local teachers’ event at the Active Language centre in Cádiz.  The event is run by TEFL del Sur. It’s a relatively young association.  It was set up in 2011 and is spear-headed by … Continue reading →

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Making waves?

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Ceri Jones

This post is a very late contribution to  Jason Renshaw‘s  wandrous whiteboard challenge. The basic idea is to start the activity (and preferably the lesson) with a blank board and to ask the students to fill the board with whatever … Continue reading →

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a conversation about twitter

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Ceri Jones

Sitting at the kitchen table, checking tweetdeck. I liked the questions and where they led us, and the outsider’s view on my new (ish) obsession 😉 C = me S= my eight year old son S Why’s your photo on … Continue reading →

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