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20 Jan 2017

What’s the most challenging thing about teaching writing?

I’m collecting comments from teachers about teaching writing. I asked the teachers at my seminar in Bilbao this morning the same question and got (among others) these answers: Should I be harsher than the examiner when I assess? Making sure...

13 Jan 2017

Collated ideas from Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English seminar

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsC1 Advanced, Cambridge English, Cambridge English Seminars, reading

Today’s seminars on the Cambridge English: Advanced exam in San Sebastian were full of sharing ideas. So, thought I’d share a few of them in this post! I started the first session (I did two this morning) by asking teachers...

11 Dec 2016

Get your students to bring English into the classroom

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagsfun, grammar, spelling, vocabulary

English is all around. Certainly here in Spain. Walk into any big clothes shop, and you’ll find English on the front of so many T-shirts. (Of course, the problem is, that not all the spelling or grammar is correct! I...

29 Nov 2016

8Way Thinking Questions for Describing photos in Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, Cambridge English, conferences, creativity, speaking

In many ways, the describe-the-photo-task in the Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking Test is probably one of the most difficult tasks of any of the speaking tests in the Cambridge English Language Assessment exams. Finding enough things to say about a...

17 Nov 2016

Classroom Wait time, Think time and Rehearse Time

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsCambridge English, conferences, creativity, fun, questions, speaking

Recently the subject of wait time has cropped up again and again when I’ve been researching the subject of questions and questioning in the classroom. When I asked teachers at my session in the ACEIA conference in Seville to say...

14 Nov 2016

Sharing creative activities from It’s a question of ACEIA Conference session

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagsconferences, creativity, events, fun, questions, resources, speaking

Here are some of the questions activities that I demonstrated in my session on questions today at the ACEIA Conference in Seville: Creative Minds Inspire. As you can see from the title, my session focussed on questions, the theme of...

12 Nov 2016

Activities for practising questions

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagsfun, questions, Tips, young learners

In this post, I’m going to share some activities for working on questions. In this case, I mean activities of working on different question forms and when and why they are used (as well as who asks them). Guess the...

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What’s the most challenging thing about teaching writing?

Collated ideas from Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English seminar

Get your students to bring English into the classroom

8Way Thinking Questions for Describing photos in Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking

Classroom Wait time, Think time and Rehearse Time

More creative question activities – Colours

Sharing creative activities from It’s a question of ACEIA Conference session

Activities for practising questions