Author Archives: BerLingo
Bye bye Berlingo.
After being overwhelmed by the kind comments and tweets I received on and about my last post, I have decided that I love writing too much to stop blogging just because I no longer teach English in Berlin. Thank you … Continue reading
To Berlingo or not to Berlingo?
I feel I owe this blog a short explanation. I know I wrote a lot about my big life switch in my previous post, but still, I feel the need to scribble something else. Since 2015 turned into 2016, I … Continue reading
30 questions to ask yourself about 2015
Earlier today, I found Sandy Millin’s blog post posing a list of 30 questions to herself to sum up her 2015, and I thought the idea was so fitting to what has been a crazy year for me, that I … Continue reading
TED Talks with ‘The English Salon’: an evening for advanced learners of English
A few weeks ago (OK, in mid-November…I’m posting this far too late!), a friend from the English Teachers’ Association of Berlin and Brandenburg (ELTABB) started a new workshop for advanced learners of English. She called it ‘The English Salon,’ and … Continue reading
‘Winter activities for adults’ – an #ELTchat Summary from Wednesday 9th December
On Tuesday 8th December, I put out a plea for help on Twitter for Christmas activities for adults, as the large majority of the material I found online was aimed at children. I was also pushed for time to create something for … Continue reading
A MaWSIG MeetUp: ‘What’s hot and what’s not in ELT publishing?’
A few months ago, Dale Coulter and I had a strange psychic moment whereby we both replied to a tweet from MaWSIG saying more or less the same thing. MaWSIG is the Special Interest Group for Materials Writing from IATEFL, … Continue reading
Diary of a newbie English teacher part six: to language school or not to language school?
Written on Thursday, 19th November For some reason, I’ve now found some new energy and enthusiasm for blogging and, en route to a new company class this afternoon, I had an idea for a new post which might be helpful … Continue reading
My first ever creative teaching idea: talking about food
This will, for once, be a short post, but I just wanted to share what could well be my first ever truly creative and own idea for teaching something (!) It’s an idea for teaching adjectives of food, and I came up … Continue reading
An intriguing student: a dictation exam
So I have about six other blog posts pending at the moment, which I will hopefully finish once I’ve moved flats this weekend, but I have just had a very interesting class which I think warrants a quick scribble. I … Continue reading
#BlogChallenge: What did you teach today?
I first caught wind of this blog challenge on Hana Tichá’s blog, where she wrote a post in response to Anthony Smith’s original idea, the ‘blurb’ for which I quote below: Have you ever wanted to observe the class of … Continue reading
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