Author Archives: roycross

1. Here’s a good, comprehensive FutureLearn blog post that would make the basis for a lesson or even a project: How to reduce plastic waste: 20 tips to save the planet https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/how-to-reduce-plastic-waste Here’s one worrying quote from it: “In 2014, … Continue reading →

1. This four-week course, Teaching pathways: How to teach speaking, which is intended to help with the design of speaking tasks and improve the speaking skills of your students, starts tomorrow: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-pathways-how-teach-speaking You need to register – that’s free – … Continue reading →

‘Long Friday’ with some longer reads for the weekend! 1. Short notice, this one: ‘Surviving burnout’ – an IATEFL webinar presented by Carol Griffiths tomorrow, 8th January at 13:00 UK time https://www.iatefl.org/events/229 plus lots of other interesting free events (with … Continue reading →

If you’ve had chance to get a break since I last wrote, I hope it was as restorative as mine was! 1. Early notice (because next Thursday may be too late) of the first NATESOL Free Webinar of 2022, Multilingualism … Continue reading →

This is the last ‘Free Resources’ message till 6th January. If you’re getting a break, luxuriate! 1. This has been around since 2016 but was new to me earlier this week: If The World Were 100 People https://youtu.be/QFrqTFRy-LU 2. Eating … Continue reading →

Here’s the recording of Kristina Hultgren’s talk, Multilingualism vs English: are they reconcilable? at the recent ICLHE (Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education – grown-up CLIL?) symposium in Maastricht on The Englishization of Higher Education https://youtu.be/ptUQwYSfi1g You can find … Continue reading →

1. Well worth exploring when you have a little time, Alexandra Mihai’s last post on her Educationalist blog for 2021, on hybrid teaching this time. “There is no secret that I am no big fan of hybrid teaching”, she says, … Continue reading →

1. Lots of videos on the WWF International YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5MDIy3yhWDrx0MyDo4QmYg including these climate action stories from Monteria (Colombia), Park City (USA), Karachi (Pakistan) and London (UK) https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/wwfurbanart 2. Christopher Graham from Footprint ELT UK chaired a panel discussion at … Continue reading →

1. The first of two from Stephen Downes’s OLDaily newsletter: “How do some teachers hold the attention of their whole class, while others may struggle to keep them engaged?” Find out here, in this piece by Kris Taylor on his … Continue reading →

1. The OECD have just published Teachers Getting the Best out of Their Students, based on data from this year’s Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) report and described as taking “a view of teachers and school principals across all … Continue reading →