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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...