10,000 hours of English – how do you teach yours? (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 13 | June 15, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

 

Being a teacher of English, I deal with piles of course books on a daily basis. Course books are really engaging these days, and I inevitably draw a lot of inspiration from them. Sometimes, a single sentence can start a long train of thought. In this post, I’m exploring one such instance, which led to a surprising realization! Lesson 9A in English File Intermediate (Third Edition) centers around the topic of luck. In this lesson the students read a text called ‘A question of luck?’ which explains why certain people become extraordinarily successful, and what factors contribute to their success.

Have a look at the final paragraph of the text:

10000hours

I don’t know about the specific number – 10,000 hours seems a little excessive! – but the theory behind it makes a lot of sense for language learning. (more…)

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Research Paper: ‘Economic Discrimination in Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron’ by Devang Rangani

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

Abstract:

The present paper probes the issue related to economic condition Pakistan and differentiate between poor and rich people. It demonstrates how the economic differences create social and emotional problems among these two groups. Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron present these two types of social classes which have unfriendly experience for each others.  The sincere study of this aspect discovers many roots for social disharmony and chaos in Pakistan.

Article

Socio-economic problems of Pakistan stand as microcosm of global problems. The need of the hour is to understand that such economic disparity of a particular nation is not a problem of the nation only. In today’s time, when thousands of unemployed or poor are turning to be terrorist, it can’t be regarded as a problem of Pakistan only. The Novel of Kamila Shamsie thus, do the works of an eye opener for the rest of the world. (more…)

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Integrating video content in the EFL classroom with International Express – Part 4 (OUP Blog)

[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 11 | June 1, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

 

Fancy livening up your classroom with some ready-made video activities? This is thefinal part of a series of four articles in which Keith Harding and Rachel Appleby share ideas for using the stunning new International Express video material. Each unit of the course features a video directly related to the unit topic. Here, Rachel offers ideas for using the clip from Upper Intermediate Unit 6 – PleaseCycle, which focuses on conditionals.

Before you watch

Try out some of these ideas to get your students thinking before they watch.

1. Discussion

You can focus on cycling from a number of angles, for example, you can think of it as a sport (more…)

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