Autor: Bogdan Georgiana
Unusual places to stay
Autor: Macsim Elena Adriana, clasa a XII-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.booking.com/searchresults.en-gb.html?aid=318615&label=New_English_EN_RO_ PRISON HOTELS Built in 1905, Karosta naval jail in Latvia originally housed badly behaved Russian sailors. Now a hotel, it offers guests ” an opportunity to stay overnight on real prisoners’ benches and mattresses’. The hotel’s website goes on describe Karosta proudly as ‘ […]
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Reduced relative clauses
Autor prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://mytutorsource.com/blog/how-to-learn-english-grammar/ Relative clauses are usually introduced by relative pronouns such as that, who or which and are used to provide information about someone or something just mentioned. We can use relative clauses to identify people (I’ ve just seen the woman who lives upstairs), describe things ( She’s climbing […]
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Extensive Reading and Listening
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://www.istockphoto.com/ro/search/2/image-film?phrase=pile%20of%20books%20with%20headphones&page=2 Most researchers like to make a difference between extensive and intensive reading and listening. Whereas the former suggests reading or listening at length, often for pleasure in a leisurely way, intensive reading or listening tends to be more concentrated, less relaxed and often dedicated not so much to […]
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Thinking about Language
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://eltnews.gr/teaching-tips/teaching-speaking/engaging-the-teenage-mind-interactive-strategies-for-language-learning/ Many students seem to learn better if they are asked to think about the language they are coming into contact with. For example, we could get students to repeat a sentence such as „If I hadn’t overslept, I wouldn’t have missed the bus” and they might well understand […]
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DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Autor: Ispas Livia, clasa a VII-a A Sursă imagine:https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/802133383665034287/ “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, […]
Read MoreThe Sound of Music
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Music is a powerful stimulus for student engagement precisely because it speaks directly to our emotions while still allowing us to use our brains to analyse it and its effects if we so wish. A piece of music can change the atmosphere in a classroom or prepare students for a new […]
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Saving Madagascar
Autor: Isaia Raluca Gabriela, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=madagascar+landscape Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island at over 225,000 square miles. Athough all islands have their own unique ecosystems, nature has given Madagascar incredible riches. Roughly ninety per cent of its animal and plant life is found nowhere else on the planet. Its […]
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Whole-class Grouping
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursa imagine: https://theinspiredclassroom.com/2013/11/how-to-encourage-your-pupils-to-ask-more-questions/ There is no real limit to the way in which teachers can group students in a classroom, though certain factors, such as over-crowding, fixed furniture and entranched student attitudes, may make things problematic. Nevertheless, teaching a class as a whole, getting students to work on their own or […]
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From Fantasy to Reality
Autor: Drăghici Maria, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://stock.adobe.com/ro/search?k=palm+island+dubai There once was a sheikh with big dreams. His land was a sleepy village occupied by pearl divers, fishermen and traders. A small river ran through the village to the sea and it was here that Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed al Maktoum imagined building a […]
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Students need to make mistakes
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://www.jagranjosh.com/articles/7-tips-to-tell-how-students-should-learn-from-their-mistakes-1512631470-1 One of the things that puzzles many teachers is why students go on making the same mistakes even when those mistakes have been repeatedly pointed out to them. Yet not all mistakes are the same; sometimes they seem to be deeply ingrained, yet at other times students correct […]
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Once upon a time…
Autor: Isaia Raluca, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.ebay.com/itm/266990524316 Once upon a time there lived in Germany two brothers who loved a good story – one with magic and danger, royalty and villains. At school they met a wise man who led them to a treasure – a library of old books with tales […]
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Countryside versus City Living: Pros and Cons
Autor: Macsim Elena-Adriana, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/city-life-vs-country-life-an-unbiased-analysis/ It is a fact that, nowadays, many more people live in towns than in the country. Any many of us, however, long to live in the country because we think that life is better there. But most of us only visit the countryside during our […]
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Adult Learners
Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria-Georgiana Sursa imagine: https://depositphotos.com/photos/college-teacher.html?offset=800&qview=75793117 Adult language learners are notable for a number of special characteristics: However, adults are never entirely problem-free learners and they have a number of characteristics which can sometimes make learning and teaching problematic. Good teachers of adults should take all these factors into account. They are aware that […]
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Students and Speaking
Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria- Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://www.istockphoto.com/ro/fotografie/un-grup-de-adolescen%C8%9Bi-stau-%C3%AEn-cerc-cu-un-profesor-gm2193688586-611907567?searchscope=image%2Cfilm Getting students to speak in class can sometimes be extremely easy. In a good class atmosphere, students who get on with each other, and whose English is at an appropriate level, will often participate freely and enthusiastically if we give them a suitable topic and task. However, […]
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The Teenage Mind
Autor: Macsim Elena, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.istockphoto.com/ro/vector/b%C4%83iatul-crede-gm1416439924-464070611?searchscope=image%2Cfilm We tend to think of adolescence as the most difficult stage in human development. Mention the word ‘teenager’ and certain stereotypical behaviour comes to mind: not wanting to communicate with parents or adults in general, doing silly or dangerous things like skateboarding down a stair […]
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About superstitions
Autor: Isaia Raluca, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://loveideaet.click/product_tag/37996084_.html Superstitions are beliefs that some things cannot be explained by reason and that there are certain objects or actions that bring good or bad luck. Most superstitions are old and people usually have no idea where they came from. We may be told, for example, […]
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Motivation, the Key to Success
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://medium.com/@delacristian553/the-importance-of-motivation-a-key-to-success-e56c5d1f743b It is accepted for most fields of learning that motivation is essential to success: that we have to want to do something to succeed at it. Without such motivation we will almost certainly fail to make the necessary effort. We need, therefore, to develop our understanding of motivation […]
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Budapest, a Famous European Capital City
Autor: Macsim Elena-Adriana, clasa a XI-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.shutterstock.com/search/budapest?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F Budapest, the Hungarian capital, is situated on the glorious Danube River in western Hungary. Before amalgamation in 1873, the site was home to two separate towns, Buda and Pest, located on either side of the river. The city’s fascinating variety of architectural styles brings its […]
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The Importance of Age in Learning English
Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://www.cambridgeforlife.org/articles/learning-english/the-importance-of-learning-english-at-an-early-age The age of our students is a major factor in our decisions about how and what to teach. People of different ages have different needs, competences and cognitive skills; we might expect children of primary age to acquire much of a foreign language through play, for example, whereas […]
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Big cities, Big problems
Autor: Macsim Adriana-Elena, clasa a X-a C Sursă imagine: https://www.statista.com/chart/23349/share-of-urban-population-by-continent/ Our cities have be become too big. The problems they create outweigh the benefits. In 1800 only two per cent of the world’s population lived in cities. But since then, and particularly in recent years, more and more people have moved to cities looking for […]
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