Global Bloggers
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Watching it happen
This week I thought I’d blog about the video component of Global. I like them for several reasons. The learners find them engaging and they allow for a change of tempo, with the change of focus often creating a new space within the classroom and the fabric of the lesson. more…
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Patience and painkillers
Now that I’ve got your attention readers, no, I’m not going to go into details of my post-accident trauma, but it would make for a lovely title to describe my current situation! Instead, I’ll attempt to offer a little insight into what transpired in class this past week where we more…
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Processing
Processing thoughts and getting them down in writing is something we all must do and which is never an easy task. For learners struggling with a limited range of words, structures, format and concepts, it can be an even more daunting adventure. While moving from Work to Leisure, our class more…
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Slowing it down
Life is often in a rush. It either rushes past us or we are rushing towards it. Today’s world is full of applications and gadgets that are all in a hurry to be developed to work quicker than the previous one. Vietnam is certainly no exception and the pace of more…
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Working it out!
The topic of work in Unit 5 Work & Leisure explored in the lessons over the week generated quite a lot of discussion among students and several interesting points were raised. Quite a few stories of students’ experiences with job interviews were shared and some specific opinions related to work more…
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Hello from Hanoi
Continuing our series of Global Blogs, we have a new blogger starting with us this week. Scott Shelton is based in Vietnam and will be posting about his Global experiences from there for the next few weeks. Scott continues … Hello readers! I’ve been involved in ELT since 1990 when more…
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Order and progress
Our series of posts from Global bloggers around the world continues, with a new face this week. Harry is based in Brazil and will be sending us occasional posts from his rather unusual teaching environment. Ordem e Progresso (Order and Progress), the Brazilian flag boasts. I always read it as more…
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Spring has sprung!
Tui was first with the news – as usual – even before dawn. Then, in an instant, the morning sun, which yesterday had to shaken grumpily out of its slumbers, was blazing through the ranchsliders, daring me to press ‘snooze’. And last night’s rain had miraculously metamorphosed into an exuberant rainbow. more…
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Travelling the road to discovery
Auckland is blessed with a full, radiant moon. But does that mean there’s a full moon everywhere, floating simultaneously over desert sands and frozen tundra, not just our own boggy fields? Why don’t I know these things? I can only comfort myself with the quote from Einstein that opens our more…
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Partnership, protection and participation
Happiness. What a fabulous theme for a lesson! Our Global voyagers will learn, as they stop off at Unit 6, that it’s not all about fame and fortune. No, happiness, it seems, is made up of three indefinable – but refreshingly universal – elements: relationships, beliefs and purpose. Armed with more…
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Home and away
This weekend, New Zealand stayed at home and watched the rain do its thing – which gave me ample time to make myself at ‘home and away’ with Unit 8 of Global pre-intermediate. Of course, as immigrants, I and my students here are both ‘home and away’ at the same more…
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Spending time with Time
Has another week already passed? You know, I daren’t close my eyes in case I miss another decade! Time was very much a central theme of two enjoyable events I was lucky enough to see here in Auckland this week. One very old – the play Romeo and Juliet by more…
