English pronunciation: How do you go about teaching it? Let’s start by considering… How we learn unfamiliar sounds and phonetic patterns When teaching the spoken language it is essential to take into account how humans learn unfamiliar sounds and phonetic patterns: Initially, those sounds are registered by the brain as undifferentiated from the ones a […]
Poppies’ homage to MP Jo Cox on the first anniversary of her murder
From POPPIES, our homage to MP Jo Cox murdered a year ago. In Memoriam Jo Cox, a proud, no-nonsense Yorkshire lass was murdered on 16-06-2016 Last year today, a young, good and honest politician from Yorkshire was murdered in Britain. She was 42 and had become the Labour MP for Batley and Spen in 2015. […]
Mis niños son los mejores. Un ejercicio de Listening Practice
¿Afirmas, como todas, que tus niños son los mejores? ¿Crees que la escuela pública es para aquellos que no pueden pagar otra educación mejor? ¿Cuál piensas que es el fin o finalidad de la escuela pública? Te propongo ahora el siguiente ejercicio Listening Practice Te servirá tanto si quieres mejorar tu inglés, como si estás preparándote para […]
Food for Thought and Listening Practice for Opositores & teachers at large
Food for Thought That the discussion forums at the Poppies Courses are called Food For Thought is not a whim. It is rather the firm conviction that teachers and learners need to analyse, come to conclusions, synthesise, combine different parts, assess, explain and then give reasons for our conclusions or statements. More on this in the […]
Three issues concerning education to give you food for thought
Three issues I would like to raise here to serve us as Food for Thought: Food-4-Thought no. 1: What are the Spanish Education Authorities doing to ensure that every student gets the education they need for the 21st century? I’m afraid not much. I spent last year and a large part of this reading and […]