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“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
Chinese proverb

When students are repeating, doing drills and practice tasks they are not really communicating as one would naturally where the interaction has the purpose of getting messages across in a specific     read more >>

Reading in a foreign language is hard work, especially for younger children. The teacher will have to decide which skills to focus on and devise activities which actively support learners’ understanding and guide attention to the chosen skill.

The following guide-lines may be useful when planning how to develop students’ reading ability at an early age.     read more >>

Get your pens out
When I was at school dictation meant learning a passage or list of vocabulary at home in preparation for a test the next day. The teacher read out the text or list piece by piece, pausing for us to write what we heard. Our scripts were taken in and marked. A point from a total of 20 was taken off for every mistake in spelling, punctuation or missed out word. If you had over twenty mistakes you got a minus score – which meant a student who wrote nothing could score higher than one with a lot of mistakes!     read more >>

Read the passage and answer the questions which follow:

This gro I folled in the bion. I sok a trisy vene drog. The grask was trisy lirkening. I did not dring it. A jovind Kar and a jovind Kari were pristing deree me. They were gribbling alty. I sorb trisy forban. I possi not vree the skadis. I vridi trun. I grokki ta the Kar and the Kari forbenly. They did not gof nol drinkleton. Wi the hin I possi not wilk it. I vridi trun ves. “I possi not vree a palav!” I lind forbanly.     read more >>