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Tea in fiction and language
When you start learning English, the familiar cup of tea, present in every corner of the world, gains new meanings. Tea becomes more than something you drink in the morning or when you feel poorly.
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Reading the museum
Museums are places of adventure, engagement and discovery. They take us into a world of investigation and imagination.
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Reading Africa
May is a special month for Africa: African World Heritage Day is celebrated on May 5th, and Africa Day is on May 25th.
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Get creative: offline and online projects for language learners
Creative projects, when designed well, can be exciting and motivating for language learners.
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Inspiring teachers: teaching Shakespeare with Deborah J. Ellis
In this series we talk to inspiring teachers who use literature and storytelling to set up reading programmes and use the arts and literature to develop their students’ language and literacy
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Collaborative projects online
Some important aspects of language development have emerged in the current situation of distance/online learning.
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A class project - a sequel to Next Door
We are glad to share this class project as an excellent example of using our readings to develop creative writing skills with your students.
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Beyond the Moon: Two readers to travel in space
In the last on our series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, we present some Helbling readers which will launch you and your students into space.
We have already looked at M
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Beyond the Moon: Space projects for the language class
In this post on space travel we boldly go where no language class has gone before: to the outer regions of our solar system!
We recommend the following projects as starting points for both indi
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Moon Landing 50: Moony goes on holiday
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing. In a previous post we have collected resources for you to learn more about the Moon landing and lots of stories to inspire CLIL and
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