ESSENTIAL TRAVEL PACK LESSONS
Are you going on holiday and need to brush up on your English? This maybe for you then, a short pre-holiday course at Myngle which consists of 5 lessons of 45 minutes at a reasonable price, if you are interested please contact me at infotheenglishteacher@gmail.com Let’s get Mynglying!!!
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FACELIFT FOR MYNGLE
Over the weekend Myngle presented their new re-designed website. More user-friendly and with new features, here is what Marina had to say over at Myngle..
What is the new Myngle?
1. Homepage:
The new homepage is simpler and focused on what is really essential for a first time visitor. Emphasis is on what a student wants to find: its [...]
READ THE NEWS ONLINE
A great way of improving reading skills is with online newspapers. The times online is just one of many..
Hollywood welcomes the Brangelina twins - but you can’t meet them yet
Equality laws ‘are now holding women back’
The chief executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission believes maternity rights damage chances of promotion
How mother’s stand won [...]
ANYONE FOR PODCASTS?
Another great way to learn English is by podcasts..
It seems worth highlighting some podcasts that can help you improve your English. (We’re assuming that you already know some English, or you wouldn’t be here in the first place.)
The most obvious podcast to start with is the aptly titled English as a Second Language Podcast (iTunes- Feed - Web Site). Put [...]
PYRAMID OF SKILLS
Online teaching skills
Online teachers need different skills than those normally employed by tutors trained to teach languages in a face-to-face classroom and they also require different skills compared to online teachers of other subjects. Research shows that the medium influences the form of communication and interaction. The asynchronicity of communication in written conferencing and the lack [...]
ILLUSTRATED TEACHING ONLINE
A special thanks to our friend cartoonist “Matthew Henry Hall” for giving me permission to display his education cartoons, which I luckily stumbled upon here www.matthewhenryhall.com whilst surfing the www… enjoy!
Courtesy of “Matthew Henry Hall”
5 QUESTIONS ABOUT LIVE ONLINE LEARNING
I found this interesting article on the Myngle blog
In all press coverage Myngle got so far, all journalists wanted to know from us if language learning can be done in an effective way if your teacher is not present in the same room. Can you learn a language through live online language instruction while your teacher [...]
OFFLINE VS ONLINE
What are the main differences in teaching in a traditional classroom to e-learning?
Traditional Courses
Online Courses
Instructor-focused
More “passive” learning
Instructors “deliver” knowledge
Outgoing, verbal, high-achieving, students participate the most
Technology may be used, but is not central to the role of being a learner
Various media may be used, but most delivery is by the spoken word, with some written support
Learner-focused
More [...]
ABOUT THE ENGLISH TEACHER
Let me introduce myself, my name is Aniya, I was born in England and have lived in Italy since 1985, I am married and have 2 teenage boys and 2 cats…
I work as an ESL Teacher for the British Institutes in Italy and I am CELTA Cambridge Qualified. I teach both General and Business English [...]
