Monthly Archives: November 2010
We all need management skills
Once I heard a friend, who was studying to be an engineer, complaining about having to study management for a semester: “I don’t need to learn management skills, I don’t want to be a manager, anyway!”, he argued almost in … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities
The B.C. CEFR inventory
Just a brief post to praise the work done by the British Council – EAQUALS 2010. They’ve recently launched, and are still improving, an inventory of core functions, topics, grammar items, vocabulary items and discourse markers at each CEFR level. It’s … Continue reading
Filed under Curiosities, ELT Purposes
Interactive White Board materials
I’ve recently noticed that one of the biggest problems for some people in the editorial departments of ELT publishing houses when developing digital teaching materials is to explain to their marketing fellows what are the things that really work well on an Interactive White Board. … Continue reading
Filed under ELT Purposes, blended learning
