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2 Dec 2021

Awesome Advent Calendar – Day 2 Making a list of all the things you’re grateful for

TagsAdvent calendar, Mindfulness, resources

Today’s Awesome Advent Calendar challenge is to think of all the things in my life that I’m grateful for. I decided to try and find something for every letter of the alphabet – something I do when I’m trying to...

1 Dec 2021

Awesome Advent Calendar Day 1: Finding and sharing positive news

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsAdvent calendar, fun, Mindfulness, personalisation, resources

On day 1 of the Awesome Advent Calendar, the challenge is to fine and share some positive news. One piece of very good news is that the Action for Happiness calendar for December is out! Doing good has a positive...

30 Nov 2021

Working on A2 Flyers grammar – past simple and present perfect

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, grammar, Tips, Wordlists, young learners

In this post, I’m going to share some ideas for working on grammar, especially the irregular verbs on the A2 Flyers wordlist. About A2 Flyers irregular verbs There are 92 irregular verbs on the A2 Flyers wordlist, which you can...

23 Nov 2021

Working on the Past Simple at A1 Movers

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA1 Movers, games, grammar, Tips, Wordlists

On the A1 Movers grammar and structures list in the A1 Movers Handbook, the Past simple positive, negative and question forms, as well as short answer forms and contractions appear on the list of grammar and structures. On the A1...

12 Oct 2021

Webinar recording: Moving up to B1 Preliminary

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key, B1 Preliminary, Cambridge English, news, webinar

I was delighted to be asked to present the webinar: Moving up to B1 Preliminary for Cambridge English. The webinar focused on the areas of language and competency that students need to develop in order to move up from A2...

21 Sep 2021

B1 Preliminary Writing checklists

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, resources, Tips, writing

In today’s post, I’m sharing some checklists to use with B1 Preliminary students. Getting students to check their answer once they’ve finished writing is always a struggle. So, to encourage them to do this, and hopefully reinforce the layout, language...

14 Sep 2021

Approaching a new (exam) task

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, engaging with exam tasks, reading, speaking

When you’re preparing students for an exam, there will be tasks which will be new to them and may seem unrelated to real life. You don’t normally read a news story or article and answer multiple choice questions about it!...

26 Aug 2021

Beginning a new school year

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsTips

Today, I’m speaking for Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment English at a conference for Ukraine, the Back to School conference. To start off my first session, I’m going to show teachers a letter and give them time to read...

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