Monthly Archives: February 2023
Paraphrasing activities & resources
Practising paraphrasing is so important for our students: it requires them to know vocabulary and to manipulate structures successfully. Doing it in pairs or groups means they have to be explicit about the process, further advancing their confidence and control. If you can name it, you can tame it! It is of course a skill […]
Language patterns & the UK Linguistics Olympiad
Who’s been in a language class where you were either frustrated by the slowness of others to see patterns, or frustrated by not being able to keep up because you hadn’t yet learnt how to see the patterns? (This frustration actually put me off going to language classes and I ended up reading things like […]
Exam Wrapper for Listening exams
Have you tried exam wrappers? I recently learnt the term ‘exam wrapper’ through some EduTwitter posts. In case you haven’t come across it yet, it’s a short form (or ‘metacognition worksheet’) that students fill in before a test, designed to help them evaluate their learning and think about what they can do to prepare for […]
A Hive of Activities 