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Quizlet Just Got Better...

on May 12, 2016
A tsunami of excitement: If you had been walking down the C Block corridor a few weeks ago, you would have heard a tsunami of noise flooding through the A/C vents. That was my Level 2 class, revising ...

Word Association: A fun...

on December 19, 2015
One strategy to learn new words is to associate them with words we already know. And there is a nice iOS game for that: Word Association (link). The game lets you complete packs. In each pack, yo...

A Great Start!

on September 6, 2015
As we begin week 3 of this first cycle of the new Foundations Intensive Programme, (FIP)  it’s timely to look at how the startup has gone.   Great Numbers! We have around 5700 students in Foundati...

Need help with making s...

on September 1, 2015
With our weekly vocabulary quizzes, our students need as much as help as they can get to become familiar with new words. There are a few articles about helpful vocabulary learning techniques and r...

Vocabulary Garden-A Fer...

on August 30, 2015
By David Anderson and Lana Albardawil   Foundations Levels have extensive wordlists. Indeed, the list for Level 3 has over 800 items with 670 that are considered core.  To ensure students are ex...

iPad Tips: Reminder you...

on March 19, 2015
Reminder is one of iOS’ basic apps; it is meant to help you create basic to-do lists to remind of you of tasks that need to be done. Last semester, one of my students creatively used Reminder, a ba...