About Me
- Teacher Alex
- Portugal
- I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.
Showing posts with label APPI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label APPI. Show all posts
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013
My Cambridge Experience, August 2012
In August 2012, a group of Portuguese teachers of English spent two weeks in beautiful Cambridge / UK in a teacher training course. Besides the updates I published then - starting here -, below is my report of that wonderful experience just published by APPI in its newsletter:
Friday, July 12, 2013
READING in EFL - part 2
Sharing again!
The second part of an article I wrote on READING in EFL has just been published by APPI, in its Journal (Year 12, NO. 2, Autumn Issue 2012). The first part (The APPI Journal NO.1, Spring Issue, 2012 pp. 17-22) was published last year and just like the documents mentioned in this second part, everything is available here.
Happy Reading, y'all!
The second part of an article I wrote on READING in EFL has just been published by APPI, in its Journal (Year 12, NO. 2, Autumn Issue 2012). The first part (The APPI Journal NO.1, Spring Issue, 2012 pp. 17-22) was published last year and just like the documents mentioned in this second part, everything is available here.
Happy Reading, y'all!
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
CAMBRIDGE: Arrival and Day 1
Here I am,
attending a refresher course aimed at practising teachers of English at Bell
Teacher Campus in Cambridge based at Homerton College and only a 30-minute walk
into the city centre!
This was
the first picture I took on Sunday as soon as we arrived: beautiful buildings
in secluded wooded grounds and incredible lawns with squirrels. Absolutely lovely!!!
Monday was
our first course day and it was fantastic: breakfast at around 8 am in a
gorgeous Harry Potter-style dining hall, and classes from 9am to 12.30 and then
from 2pm up to 3.30. After that, off to the city centre to be back at 6pm for dinner
(served from 5.30 to 7pm) also because
there was a general meeting at 7.30. Hard work, folks, yes, but loads of fun
and many opportunities to socialize.
A picture of my first dinner here in Cambridge at the campus - Yummy!
Many, many thanks to PROALV and to our APPI colleagues, mainly to Manuela, who, in different ways, have made all this possible.
After the
first impact, our group was guided into our single en-suite
bedrooms. Here is another picture, this time, of my own room: “student residential
accommodation, not hotel accommodation” as Jim Scrivener so well put it.
At 7pm all
participants gathered for a warm welcome reception at a bar called Nusha and it
included drinks, cold buffet supper, music and chatting. It was really nice for a
first contact with other participants, teachers like ourselves, who had just
arrived from 16 different countries. Wow! Amazing, isn’t it? 16 different
nationalities from faraway places such as Japan at Bell Teacher Campus.
At 7pm all
participants gathered for a warm welcome reception at a bar called Nusha and it
included drinks, cold buffet supper, music and chatting. It was really nice for a
first contact with other participants, teachers like ourselves, who had just
arrived from 16 different countries. Wow! Amazing, isn’t it? 16 different
nationalities from faraway places such as Japan at Bell Teacher Campus.
Monday was
our first course day and it was fantastic: breakfast at around 8 am in a
gorgeous Harry Potter-style dining hall, and classes from 9am to 12.30 and then
from 2pm up to 3.30. After that, off to the city centre to be back at 6pm for dinner
(served from 5.30 to 7pm) also because
there was a general meeting at 7.30. Hard work, folks, yes, but loads of fun
and many opportunities to socialize.
Many, many thanks to PROALV and to our APPI colleagues, mainly to Manuela, who, in different ways, have made all this possible.
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