Daily bread 03/31/2016

• Examinator Column: Helping Learners with Exam Writing – by David Petrie « IH Journal

  tags: writing exam

• Order and control in Bogotopia – The Bogota Post

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Daily bread 03/30/2016

• American English to British English

• The Cool Cat Teacher Daily Tweetpaper

  The Cool Cat Teacher Daily Tweetpaper is out! https://t.co/6kaT8DKDxC Stories via @KatrinaStevens1 @krazykatfreebie @thebrainlair

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Daily bread 03/29/2016

• Teach Writing? Think it's difficult? Me too!

  tags: teach

• 50+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media | Edutopia

• NaturalReader Text to Speech Reviews | edshelf

• Tiger tesl: Games for TEFL TESL, ESL classrooms

• How to Evaluate Speaking

  tags: assessment

• How to Create All-Purpose Communicative Assessments for ESL Students

• 8 Tips for Effective Business English Instruction

• Top 10 Role Plays For Your Speaking Class

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Daily bread 03/28/2016

• Spud you really like … potato donuts in Portland, Maine | Travel | The Guardian

  "spuds"

  • roster
    • a list
  • top-notch
    • excellent quality
  • sets them apart
    • makes them different
  • stumbled across
    • found by accident
  • craving
    • a strong desire for something - especially when women are pregnant
  • tinkering
    • make improvements - tweaks
  • spuds
    • Potatoes
  • churns out
    • produces

• The ironic story behind the guillotine - Business Insider

  "“Now with my machine I take off your head in the twinkling of an eye, and you never feel it.”"

• How to Be Yourself On Teaching Tube TV. - Fair Languages

  "Dave skype lessons"

• 15 Activities That Your Business English Students Will Love

• How to Learn a Foreign Language with Brainpower: 5 Winning Mindsets | FluentU Language Learning Blog

• Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, & Expressions - Prodigious English

• Bob Ebeling, Challenger Engineer Who Warned Of Shuttle Disaster, Dies : The Two-Way : NPR

• Everyday Grammar: Introducing Phrasal Verbs

• 4 rituals that will make you an expert at anything - Business Insider

• Teach Archives - Fair Languages

• Banco de preguntas ICFES 2016 | Inovablog

• The Rolling Stones Just Gave a Historic Concert in Cuba

• Artificial Intelligence

• Microsoft 'deeply sorry' for racist and sexist tweets by AI chatbot | Technology | The Guardian

• The Art of Living: The Great Humanistic Philosopher Erich Fromm on Having vs. Being and How to Set Ourselves Free from the Chains of Our Culture – Brain Pickings

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Daily bread 03/27/2016

• 5 Things You May Not Have Known About Houdini | TED-Ed

• How to cut the 'ums,' uhs,' and 'literallys' when speaking | Articles | Media Relations

• (38) Pinterest: discover and save creative ideas

• How To Be Consistent From The First Day Of School To The Last | Smart Classroom Management

• 4 Reasons to Start Class With a Poem Each Day | Edutopia

• 24 Great Jokes That Get It Done In Just One Line

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Daily bread 03/26/2016

• Plagiarism Checker - the most accurate and absolutely FREE! Try now!

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Daily bread 03/24/2016

• Gabriel García Márquez - University of Los Andes

  "Identify the author’s contributions to world literature through the study of three of his obsessions: power, history and love."

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Daily bread 03/23/2016

• 28 Pictures You Pretty Much Need To Be A Genius To Understand

• How Blunt Are You Actually

• Latest IELTS questions - The IELTS Network

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Daily bread 03/21/2016

• Power Suits: How Dressing For Success At Work Can Pay Off : NPR

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Daily bread 03/19/2016

• The 10 best new podcasts of 2015 (that aren't Serial!) | Culture | The Guardian

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Daily bread 03/18/2016

• How To Master Pronunciation Of A Foreign Language

• Tamal Ray’s Easter recipes: from rhubarb tart to choc cross buns | Life and style | The Guardian

• Hamilton, the Musical | teatime magazine

• The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools | Will Richardson | TEDxWestVancouverED - YouTube

  Conditions for powerful learning (via @willrich45 TEDx Talk) https://t.co/1IUjEKcBVG #DitchBook https://t.co/70OH0zHxaj

  tags: DitchBook

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Daily bread 03/17/2016

• Asking Follow-up Questions

• 10 Speaking Activities - Games to learn English | Games to learn English

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Daily bread 03/16/2016

• Polishing the Diamond: 7 Steps to Needs Assessment for Advanced Learners

• Podium Power: 9 Tips for Great Student Presentations

• Habit-tual Fun: 11 Simple Go-to Activities for Teaching Adverbs of Frequency

  tags: adverbs frequency

• Questions about work: EFL/ESL Lesson plans and Worksheets - Linguahouse.com

• Board Games and Templates, Page Two | esl-lounge Premium

• 10 Roles For Artificial Intelligence In Education

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Daily bread 03/15/2016

• A St. Patrick's Day ESL Lesson That Shines Like a Pot o' Gold!

  tags: St Patricks

• St. Patrick's Day

  tags: St Patricks

• Saint Patrick's Day | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

  tags: St Patricks

• ESL Holiday Lessons.com: Saint Patrick's Day

  tags: St Patricks

• Saint Patrick's Day - English Vocabulary, Exercises and Worksheets

  tags: St Patricks

• St. Patrick's Day Worksheets

  tags: st patrick

• The Audacity to Podcast - A how-to podcast about podcasting and using Audacity

• News feed | Spreaker

• Exciting Easter Lesson Plans for Every Level

• Easter symbols

  tags: easter

• About Easter -- Easter Customs and Traditions -- whyeaster?com

  tags: easter

• Weebly vs WordPress | 5 Differences For You To Know

• CEF Checklists | Inside Out New

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Daily bread 03/14/2016

• All at C | Video Lesson Plans for Teachers | Page 4

• All at C | Video Lesson Plans for Teachers

• 8 Free On-line Tools Trainers Can Use to Make Amazing Visual Aids | Teamings

  tags: tools

• The Seven Best Film and Video Resource Sites - Kieran Donaghy

• Recipe of the Day: Bogota Meets Barra Ajiaco (From Herald Scotland)

• Awesome women | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Daily bread 03/13/2016

• Brainteaser interview questions - Business Insider

• IoT Research Report & Ecosystem - Internet of Things - Business Insider

• 12 Native English Podcasts for English Learners | FluentU English

• Best Learning English Podcasts (March, 2016)

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Daily bread 03/12/2016

• Home - Word Stress Rules

• Plans | Key To School | Moodle

• BBC Learning English - Course: Upper-intermediate / Unit 1 / Session 5 / Activity 1

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Daily bread 03/11/2016

• Open Badges in HE | Technology Enhanced Learning Blog

• Welcome to Quick Rubric – Free, Fast, and Easy to Use! :)

• BBC Learning English - Course: intermediate / Unit 25 / Session 2 / Activity 3

  LINKING CONTRASTS

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Daily bread 03/09/2016

• Listening Activities That Work - EFL 2.0 Teacher Talk

• Prepositions of Place - In / At / On / Onto / Out of

• Modal Verbs of Probability for English Learners

• Visit Spreaker and Create a Podcast

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Daily bread 03/08/2016

• The Fine Art of Course Planning: 8 Expert Tips to Plan an Advanced ESL Course That Works

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Daily bread 03/07/2016

• IT Colombia

• The Ultimate Astronomy Quiz | HowStuffWorks

• Biggest ocean

• Teacher Dashboard - GrammarFlip

• Modular cellphone kits for makers / Boing Boing

• Language Functions in English

• Should Computer-Coding Skills Be Counted as a Foreign Language in Schools? - The Atlantic

• BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / How do you like your tea?

• Plot Generator

• Report: English as a medium of instruction | British Council

• http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/meeting-and-negotiations-colllocations-dominoes.pdf

• http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/email-phone-collocations.pdf

• Telephoning troubles collocations pairwork | TEFLtastic blog

• Meetings on the topic of travel | TEFLtastic blog

  tags: meetings Role-play

• Collocations games/ worksheets | TEFLtastic blog

• The Mosquito-Borne Ailments That Changed the World Before Zika | TIME

• Chronicles of Colombia

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Daily bread 03/06/2016

• 97% Of Adults Can't Pass This Elementary Test, Can You? | PlayBuzz

• ¿Qué opinan nuestros prodigiosos de su nuevo edificio en Bogotá? - YouTube

  I liked a @YouTube video from @kiwiprofesor https://t.co/z6T5YAuk4a ¿Qué opinan nuestros prodigiosos de su nuevo edificio en

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Daily bread 03/05/2016

• “Muchos jóvenes no tienen idea de lo que el inglés puede hacer por sus vidas”

• Bloglovin’

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Daily bread 03/04/2016

• Trabaja en el Palacio de Buckingham | teatime magazine

• English Lab Tips

• EnglishBanana.com’s Big Resource Folder

• Tu Ingles

• English Lab Intermediate Lessons

• English Lab Advanced Lessons

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Daily bread 03/03/2016

• How to maximise the language learning of senior learners | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

  tags: senior learners

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Daily bread 03/02/2016

• This cable could be the charger Apple and Android users have dreamed of

• English Lab

• Giving and Accepting Compliments in English – ESL Library Blog

• 15 Puns To Keep You Smiling - Keep Smiling English

• English Lab Video Chat Software

• TESOL Connections - March 2016

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Daily bread 03/01/2016

• How Hackers Changed the World - Top Documentary Films

• Paracord Plant Hanger - All

• Notes from the happiest country on Earth | The City Paper Bogotá

• | LearnEnglish | British Council

• The Essentials of Transitive and Intransitive Verbs - Grammarly Blog | Grammarly Blog

• BBC Learning English - The English We Speak / Internet speak

• Business | teflgeek

• The Interview Round | teflgeek

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