Global Bloggers

  • Those aren’t real tortellini!

    Published on 10th March, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Leah Kaplan

    Italians will readily admit that the only glue holding the myriad of Italian peoples together is a strong cup of espresso. Not even the ubiquitous pasta is the same from one city to the next: ask a Bolognese his opinion about the tortellini made in Modena (20 kilometers away) more…

  • Happy Trails in Switzerland

    Published on 9th March, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Amy Jost

    Happiness – what a nice topic to discuss in English class. You can’t help but feel better just thinking about it.
    We began our lesson from Global’s unit 6 writing down 5 things that make us happy. No ranking was called for, no judgments would be made, we simply more…

  • Welcome to a new Global blogger

    Published on 5th March, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Leah Kaplan

    We’d like to welcome our newest Global blogger to the site, and we’ll let her introduce herself…
    English alla Bolognese: Leah’s adventures in EFL teaching
    I came to Bologna as a university student on a semester abroad and fell in love. I fell in love with my Bolognese husband, but also more…

  • English and an Alpine Nation

    Published on 4th March, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Amy Jost

    Is global traveling possible without the use of English? My students would have difficulty traveling outside of central Europe with only their mother tongues of German, French or Italian. The Swiss generally welcome English and the ease it lends them when relating to the outside world, especially when more…

  • Rocket Science

    Published on 24th February, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Amy Jost

    ‘Frauen und Technik’, is a German idiom which translates to ‘Women and Technology’ and is said in a sexist way, suggesting women can’t manage technological challenges. My students, all males, mostly engineers, have been known to sigh “Frauen und Technik” to me in class.
    So it was with a more…

  • Olympics, here we come!

    Published on 16th February, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Amy Jost

    For the first homework assignment, I asked my students to choose four pages out of the Global Pre-intermediate book that interested them. The Olympic story in Unit 9 was a unanimous “must”, seeing as how the Winter Olympics were beginning on Feb. 12th, so a mere week after that more…

  • Welcome to our second Global blogger

    Published on 15th February, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Sharon de Hinojosa

    My name is Sharon and I’ve been living in Peru for 5.5 years. During that time I’ve been on various visas, from volunteer-diplomat, to tourist, to marriage. I finally stopped the need for visas when I became a Peruvian citizen last year. I applied to be a Global more…

  • Hello from snowy Switzerland

    Published on 8th February, 2010 in Global Bloggers by Amy Jost

    Hello from snowy Switzerland. My name’s Amy Jost and in the months of February and March, while most people here spend their free time watching the winter Olympics, skiing, snowshoeing or snowboarding, I’ll be your first global blogger. I’m not much of a winter sports fan, so that more…

  • Global Bloggers: An introduction

    Published on 20th December, 2009 in Global Bloggers by Matt Kay

    With a course title of Global, we always wanted this blog to have a global voice. To this end one of the blog strands on this site, Global Bloggers, will be written by practicing language teachers and teacher trainers around the world.
    Over the coming year the Global Bloggers will more…