Tuesday 17 August 2010

Nicky Hockly Video

by Nicky Hockly

Tuesday 10 August 2010

ICFE Reading Part 5

by Julie Pratten

Some of you out there may be wondering why the blog has been a bit quiet recently. Tis the season of holidays and as the resident blogger I am afraid I forgot this minor detail when I volunteered to do it back in the spring. This month I hope to make it up to you. [...]

Monday 5 July 2010

Dead Cat Bounce

by Julie Pratten

Hello and welcome to the ICFE blog. Over the next two months, we’ll be looking at various aspects of preparing students for the ICFE. But before we do that, let’s take a look at how the financial crisis has affected not only the funds of investors, businesses and countries, but has made our language even [...]

Thursday 27 May 2010

Financial English & ICFE Blog

by Helen Beesley

Julie Pratten, author of Absolute Financial English, will be talking about teaching financial English and the ICFE exam in July and August in the Delta Development Blog. Join Julie with any questions or ideas you may want to share with other financial English teachers around the globe.

Monday 17 May 2010

Rules

by Gill Johnson

Hi All It has been a whirlwind couple of weeks. Many of the international students in my school have been doing foreign language oral exams, which I have had to administer. Rules for externally assessed examinations in the UK, like GCSE and A levels are quite strict and perhaps a little inflexible. Some of my [...]

Sunday 2 May 2010

Lexis, Culture and Class

by Gill Johnson

Hello Everyone In a week of election fever (that is if one can imagine us getting feverish about politics) here in the UK, I thought I would offer you an exercise which shows the backgrounds of two politicians who are busy campaigning for our votes. You may have heard that our present Prime Minister has [...]

Friday 16 April 2010

Culture in our Classrooms

by Gill Johnson

I know some of you have been looking forward to reading Mario’s blog and you might be a little surprised to be hearing from me. Don’t worry, we have simply swapped blog spots and you will be hearing from Mario very soon. So how did I get interested in culture? Well, my family is descended from a mixture of UK and Russian/Polish characters who didn’t always understand each other, I grew up with lots of friends from India and Pakistan, in a town where the National Front (an extreme right wing political party) was based and saw the havoc it wreaked. I’ve travelled a lot (and yes, I’ve made enough cultural faux pas to fill a book) worked in lots of different contexts and I am constantly fascinated by how our culture(s) define the way we lead our lives.