Author Archives: roycross

1. Something for your students or children, probably, on the (I hope reasonable) assumption that not too many under-30s read this message: Youthwise is the OECD’s ‘Youth Advisory Board’ and applications are now being accepted. More info here https://www.oecd.org/about/civil-society/youth/youthwise/  and … Continue reading →

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 →