Daily bread 03/23/2014

• 10 Funny English Idioms - Voxy Blog

• 25 Comical Quotes About the Confusing English Language - Voxy Blog

• Top 10 Most Common Idioms in English - Voxy Blog

• Upper-intermediate English - Memrise

• Cambridge Free English Dictionary and Thesaurus

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• Santos falls off bicycle at public event

• Twitter

• Casas de Pique en Buenaventura | ELESPECTADOR.COMe-planning

• 5 Ways To Create Better Content in 10 Minutes Or Less - The Klout Blog The Official Klout Blog

• How to Look People in the Eye Digitally | Ted Rubin

• Increase Learning By Securing Students' Hearts | Angela Maiers, Speaker, Educator, Writer

• Spelling Problems

• Teaching with Technology: Backchanneling in the Classroom

• Teaching with Technology: EDMODO!

• Teaching with Technology: Using Edmodo in YOUR Classroom!

• funny esl videos - AdultESLjobs

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• ESLvideo.com :: Study English with fun, free ESL video quizzes.

• Quia - 18 famous painters and 18 famous paintings

• 39 Tools To Turn Your Students Into Makers From edshelf

• teflreflections: 10 nagging EFL questions

  "1.      Are some students practically unteachable and unimprovable (if I may coin a new word)? 2. Is there a certain, individual language plateau, beyond which no trespassing is possible, or can all students achieve proficiency level (assuming they work very VERY hard)?  3. Are certain teaching practices universally better (e.g. guided discovery), or does it all depend on the student/group/mother tongue and culture? Are there any scientific studies confirming it? 4. Do the students actually notice and get bored with the fact that some course books use only one approach (e.g. F2F and text-based guided discovery) as much as we teachers do (or at least I do)? Wouldn't it be nice then to have a course book which would blend different approaches?  5. Isn't "Teacher, you see, I'm not good at languages" all too often a lame excuse? Or is it? 6.      It's commonly believed that the younger you start learning a language, the greater your chances of actually learning it. But is there any evidence for that? (I don't mean bilingual education or upbringing, but rather sending your 5 year old once or twice a week to a language school) 7.      Why do some nationalities (I don't want to name names or point the finger, but you all know who I mean) find it so excruciatingly hard to get rid of their L1 accent when speaking English, and what could we as teachers do to help them? 8.      Speaking of which, what is "correct" pronunciation or "correct" grammar, and who says so? After all, languages continuously evolve and change, whether you're loving or hating it... 9.      Do we learn foreign languages through overt and explicit teaching and correction, or do we pick them up as we go? Or maybe both? Or neither? And what does it mean for us as teachers? 10.  If we know (or we think we do) that some methods (e.g. audiolingual or direct method) do not work, why are they still so popular, and why are language schools which use them still flourishing?"

• Nuzzel - How Assessment Can Lead to Deeper Learning

• WESLEY TOMASELLI | Freelance Writer & Reporter

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• Learning English - The Teacher - Food idioms - Fruit

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