How to Cook Up an English Class
Gill Ragsdale gives seven top tips for teaching English with food
1 Collect students’ recipes
Before introducing a recipe, test your students’ knowledge of food nouns...
Recipes for Success in Language Learning
Gill Ragsdale first learned the value of cooking with students when she worked with refugees in Calais
It was early 2016 in the Calais Jungle...
Making strides with metacognition
Gill Ragsdale explains the power of thinking aloud
‘We do not learn from experience…. we learn from reflecting on experience’, John Dewey, educational psychologist. One...
Succeeding with subtitles
An experiment with Spanish students of English at B2 Level, previously reported in the Gazette, showed that watching movies with subtitles in English improved...
High impact at lower levels
Interested in using authentic videos with lower level learners? – Lewis Lansford explains how.
It’s a great time to be an English learner, with easy...
Seven spelling secrets
Seven secrets to teaching spelling to ‘real beginners’
1 Tell them about the English system of spelling. Their own system may be very different. For...
