Hot Potatoes is a suite of 6 applications which allow a user to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the internet. The software has recently been made freeware. The suite consists of the following programs: JQuiz (question-based exercises) JCloze (gapfill exercises) JMatch (matching exercises) JMix […]
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The chances are that you have a Facebook account and there is more than a fair chance that some of your students do too. But this raises a number of questions and if you get the answer wrong, it can sometimes have dire consequences. Do I become “friends” with my […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Teachers – The Series (TEFAL)
English Teachers – the series, is a fictional webseries about the lives of English teachers in a language school in Japan. The first episode aired in September 2010. It is directed and produced by Anthony Gilmore who teaches English part-time at the Nagoya University of Foreign Studies in Japan and […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Pronunciation (TEFAL)
The clip below demonstrates the art of English pronunciation training as practiced by Steve Martin in the Pink Panther. Movie: The Pink Panther BUY/RENT THE MOVIE: https://amzn.to/3jhVP0R CLIP DESCRIPTION: A dialect coach asks Clouseau (Steve Martin) to repeat a simple phrase. FILM DESCRIPTION: The world’s most inept detective returns to […]
Continue ReadingEnglish Fail (TEFAL)
Of course English is important, we all know that. But in this epic fail it’s a matter of life or death! Check out the video and you’ll see why! Use It! And then, why not use it with your TEFL class? Set up the scene. Show the first 10 seconds, […]
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