Design credit: Václav Pinkava It is my great honour to introduce translator Melvyn Clarke on Angels and Lions. Melvyn is one of the few people to have mastered the Czech language to the point of translating novels into English. His translations include the ever-popular Hrdý Budžes, while the sequel, Onegin Was a Rusky, was published at …
Month: Apr 2018
Office English 6 – Business Reports
This lesson went really well even though I wasn’t trying very hard and probably because I allowed plenty of time for the writing itself. The aim was to familiarize the students with the structure of a standard business report and to write a business report in class. The nice aspect of the lesson was that …
Office English 5 – Meetings
I can’t believe we’re already halfway through the course. This was another great lesson. The plan was very simple – two videos, two roleplays. I kept the plan deliberately that minimalistic because I wanted to have time for the roleplays and speaking. Too bad there were only three people one of whom was very late. …
Learning Books
Since Monday, Mercury is no longer in retrograde and affairs are to be moving forward. Translated into the ELT world, this means fuel to the fire under the waning coursebook debate. There was a day-long debate yesterday on Twitter, and Peter Pun and Hana Tichá wrote new posts about coursebooks. Now although I don’t use …
Office English 4 – Tone in Writing
Now this lesson didn’t go as smoothly as the previous one, but it was still a good lesson and at least I get the chance to do some reflection of the things that could have been better. Firstly, I ran out of time because I underestimated the time needed for the actual writing. I realised …
Glenys
I was going to write a completely different post today. But as we all know, man proposes, but the God disposes. It is with a sad and heavy heart that I heard of the passing of Glenys Hanson, a wonderful person, teacher and a beloved member of our online ELT community. I got in touch …
Office English Lesson 3 – Small Talk
This lesson was awesome! I’m so excited. It was full of energy and music and everyone talking and I feel great after it. So here’s what we did. I had taught many Small Talk lessons in the past, usually using textbooks or some other ELT materials. We would do the usual good/bad topics for conversation …
Kamila of Prague 