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Hot Potatoes (CALL Software)
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 […]
Continue ReadingFacebook for TEFL Teachers
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 […]
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