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Sunday, 5 February 2023

Everyone's an expert now

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 This post isn't about politics. It's about economics. It has links to politics in the same way that education has links to politics...
Saturday, 4 February 2023

AQA GCSE Reading Exam Success

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Sometimes I can be a bit slow. Eating out in restaurants in Spain with teachers from our exchange school, I often would think, "Gosh, t...
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Year 9 Spanish beginners - writing on the tables, telling their own stories

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 You may have been following my Y9 after school beginners Spanish lessons, as we work on narrating amusing stories about aquariums, theme pa...
Saturday, 28 January 2023

The lost art of teaching with the whiteboard?

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 I thought I had messed up with my Year 9 after school Spanish beginners. Last Monday we were doing the round the class  My brother touched ...
Friday, 20 January 2023

Join the Dots Speaking

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 Had fun (some of them rather too much fun) with Year 11 doing this easy and effective speaking activity today. It was at the end of the les...
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Saturday, 14 January 2023

Disciplinary Literacy and MFL

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 Disciplinary Literacy is one of the latest terms to be imported in to the school context. You can tell it belongs elsewhere because of the ...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2023

Part 4. Year 9 Les Loisirs Booklet: Stories

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 We left the booklet at around page 12 in Part 3 . With pupils using past tense "cheats" to write their stories. And seeing model ...
Monday, 9 January 2023

Part 3. Booklet. Year 9. Les Loisirs

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 We left Part 2 , with the pupils happily riffing on any infinitives you care to give them, spontaneously developing answers with opinions, ...
Friday, 6 January 2023

Part 2. Year 9 Les Loisirs Booklet

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 Instead of moving on (yet) to how the booklet introduces tenses, I want to spend a bit more time on one of the activities from the previous...
Thursday, 29 December 2022

Year 9 Loisirs Booklet Part 1. Coherence and Stories.

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 I have been writing the booklet for the final Unit of Year 9 on Les Loisirs. Overall it's going back to a familiar topic from Year 8 so...
Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Task Based Learning in the School Context

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 There is a lot of detail around what makes up full-on Task Based Learning, which I am going to avoid. I want to focus on what makes it impo...
Saturday, 26 November 2022

Dual Coding works for Vocabulary Learning

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 I am not going to start by defining Dual Coding. I'm going to show a powerful tool in learning Vocabulary and you can see if you agree ...
Saturday, 19 November 2022

How the current GCSE works across topics - My Granny went to an aquarium and she doesn't like geography.

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NB The GCSE referred to in this post is the outgoing GCSE. Although I am now teaching the new GCSE in exactly the same way.  Extra incentive...
Saturday, 12 November 2022

Corpus - dead body zombie language

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 The exam boards' draft GCSEs they have been working on are out. And I am not going to be commenting on them while they go through the n...
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