Taking part in the Cambridge Live Experience
Posted on10 Sep 2020
I’m so excited and honoured to be taking part in the Cambridge Live Experience today. The line-up of speakers and sessions looks... Read More
About A2 Key Reading Part 4 and how to approach it
Posted on13 Jul 2020
In today’s post, I’ll look at A2 Key Reading Part 4 and share some tips about how to do it. Let’s take... Read More
Taking A2 Key Reading Part 3 further
Posted on06 Jul 2020
Today, I’d like to share some fun ideas for further work on A2 Key Reading Part 3. A while back, I wrote... Read More
Tips for Reading
Posted on02 Jul 2020
Today, let’s look again at Reading. I’ve written quite a few posts on this subject recently and shared some activities and tips. ... Read More
Personalising the ‘Starting at a new school’ A2 Key for Schools RW Part 3 text
Posted on30 Jun 2020
Today, I’d like to share a lesson plan for personalising the Starting at a new school text (from the A2 Key for... Read More
About A2 Key Reading Part 3 and how to do it
Posted on29 Jun 2020
Today, I’ll analyse A2 Key Reading Part 3 and give some tips on how students can approach it. In Part 3 of... Read More
Choiceboard with multiple ideas for reading texts
Posted on24 Jun 2020
Yesterday, I was very excited to read a message. It was to say that the choiceboard that I wrote with lots of... Read More
‘New’ resources!
Posted on28 May 2020
Today, I thought I’d write about the word ‘new’ – an extremely common three letter word, which learners will encounter again and... Read More
Giving students choices in post-reading activities for B1 Preliminary Reading Part 4
Posted on27 May 2020
Support, challenge and choice is a topic that I love – and the element of choice is something I like to give... Read More
Encouraging students to ‘wonder’ – even with exam reading texts!
Posted on26 May 2020
Just because we’re doing an exam reading task with students, doesn’t mean that they have to stop ‘wondering’ and using their imagination. ... Read More