Tag: CPD

  • Teaching Grammar Lexically – reflection

    Most of us have at least heard of the Lexical Approach, and most of us would also be hard pushed to give a succinct account of how it can be implemented in the classroom. Having Andrew Walkley, co-author of the Outcomes series, present a brief and practical guide to teaching grammar lexically was not to…

  • Motivating adults/ Teaching advanced learners

    In November 2015 I had the pleasure of attending the Oxford Teachers’ Autumn Seminar, hosted at ELC in Brighton. Around 50 teachers and ELT practitioners attended the event, for which OUP arranged a book display and provided refreshments, and teacher trainer Verissimo Toste was also there to give two short talks. Verissimo’s first talk was on…