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Watching this feat with 60,000 dominos by Flippycat got me thinking about our most loved children’s toys.

Favourite childhood toys are a topic that unites young and adult learners, with the former able to talk about their current favourites and the latter able to reminisce about the fads that dominated their youth.

This

On May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was born under a sycamore or buttonwood tree. Signed by 24 stock brokers, the Buttonwood Agreement promised only internal trading with no auctioneers, and a maximum commission price on any trade was agreed.

With the recent economic crisis being felt across the world,

No matter what language you’re learning, grammar is hard. So many rules, exceptions to rules, and exceptions to the exceptions of those rules! Help your students keep on top of their English grammar with this great infographic, with some of the most common grammatical mistakes and tips to boost

I don’t consider myself to be particularly anal, except when it comes to my use of English. I hate to be corrected. So it was with a little irritation that I found myself being corrected in a meeting when talking in a general way about computer mouses. “Don’t you mean ‘mice’?”

Distance learning doesn’t seem to be an uncertain alternative to traditional classroom arrangements. Educators together with students have noticed the value of distance learning which has been greatly improving with the development of Internet technology.

The infographic below presents the growth of distance learning enrolment and the benefits of the distance learning

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Flickr is a free online platform which allows members to upload and share their photos. Users can annotate and comment on the images, create sets and slideshows of their photos, and join groups based around particular themes and interests.

It occurred to me that these features might well be harnessed to engage

In 1951 British philosopher Bertrand Russell published in The New York Times Magazine his Ten Commandments of Teaching which outlined what he felt were the key responsibilities of the role. 

Whether you feel that these rules have any relevance to today’s ELT classroom or not they can serve as a

Back in 2011, Joanna posted a beautiful infographic about the flipped classroom. In short, the flipped classroom converts the traditional student-based learning method – watching, reading and listening to a lecture delivered by the teacher – into homework that they do at home, or even on the move, by watching

We often discuss how teachers find using technology in the classroom what is difficult and easy for them when are confronted with tech tools. It might be also worth looking at how digital natives see education and what is important for them.

The infographic below shows how digital natives outgrow traditional forms

According to a new survey by insurance company Aviva, the best age to be is 35. The survey asked over 2,000 adults what age they rated the highest as well as what they had hoped to achieve by then. Unsurprisingly milestones like buying a house, meeting a partner and

If you hear the word ‘editor’, what are the words that immediately come into your mind?

When I tried out this word-association game on some friends (some of whom were ELT writers and others not), the result was interesting. One common – and perhaps predictable – theme was the editor’s obsession with

In the run-up to Easter, Central London has been festooned with over 200 giant, decorative eggs as part of The Big Egg Hunt. Participants are invited to hunt for the eggs using maps and clues for the chance of winning a prize. Introduce your students to

Who doesn’t love Google Street View? I’m terrible at reading maps, and never go somewhere new without walking the walk through Street View first! And now you can be a virtual tourist, venturing inside some of the buildings you walk past with the Google Art Project.

The Google Art Project is

Before learners enter your classroom they often undergo a placement test that helps your institution find the right level and course for them. Some institutions offer a paper and pen test followed by an interview, others rely on students’ self-evaluation.

When faced with large numbers of learners, placement tests become an issue,

Last week, half of the office got on the train and travelled up to the other end of the country to attend the biggest and most exciting conference of the ELT year – IATEFL 2012 in Glasgow, Scotland!

IATEFL is a week-long conference packed full of early mornings, late night parties, free