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Have been neglecting blogging somewhat since Easter, but my excuse is watertight. I’ve been busy falling in love with a wonderful guy. This has entailed a summer packed with all the usual fun stuff you do when you’ve just started seeing someone, but with the added bonus of getting to know his two kids. Becoming a [...] This morning I paid off the last of a lingering and pernicious credit card bill and was delighted to see my current account, savings account and tax account all healthily in the black. I’ve also made significant steps towards paying back my professional trainee loan in recent months and have taken the hitherto unthinkable steps of [...] This is my first attempt at a Podcast, which I did for a client who is setting up a website for parents looking for useful and entertaining content related to their kids. For this Podcast I interviewed Martha Lawton, of Lawton Training and Consultancy, an expert in getting people out of debt and into good financial [...] Something unexpected and lovely happened to me recently. I’ve been working closely with a team of novice writers for the past four months: writing briefs for them, reviewing their work, and trying to comment on their lessons in a way that encourages them to produce better material, rather than become discouraged and petulant (no mean feat, as [...] My explanatory guide on subjects to be avoided at all costs in ELT materials. PornographyStudent: Teacher, what is ‘pornography’?Teacher: Er, it’s pictures of naked people.Student: Do you mean like paintings?Teacher: Er, not really.Student (smelling blood now): So, what is the difference?Teacher: … Why don’t you ask Michel? He was looking at some on one of the student [...] I just had to write a chapter on Project Management for a business studies textbook. I used to hate teaching business English and writing business English materials, but then I went freelance and started running my own business and suddenly the subject came alive for me. Working with Americans and Chinese people also invigorated my interest [...] …about working in the English Language Teaching (ELT) industry is that you have an excuse to research and write about almost every subject under the sun (apart from those that fall under the PARSNIP exceptions, of which perhaps another post at another time). Things I have had to think about this week: -Spontaneous Human Combustion: it can kill [...] …I don’t like Mondays. Anyone know how much it costs to petition a company for liquidation? Tell [...] Loving this post about buzzwords in education. I’ve had to sit through a lot of meetings and read a lot of emails recently about whether my editorial team should be training our writers to utilise the ESA (Engage, Study, Activate) methodology, or the PPP methodology (Present, Practice, Produce). Then again there’s TTT (Test, Teach, Test) or [...] |
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