Phrasally Verbocious ELT Podcast

Part two of our interview with Marek Kiczkowiak! This week Alan and Chris are delighted to be interviewing Marek Kiczkowiak from TEFL Equity Advocates who talks to us about informing students on teacher qualifications, teacher nightmares in the past and racism in ELT and what everyone can do about it. Don't forget to check out Marek's websites and certainly buy the book! Useful links - Marek on Twitter Teaching English as a Lingua Franca book on Amazon. TEFL Equity Advocates...

This week Alan and Chris are delighted to be interviewing Marek Kiczkowiak from TEFL Equity Advocates who talks to us about all things native speaker-ism, English as a Lingua Franca, IELTS examiners taking the IELTS exam (!) and labeling terminologies in ELT. Stay tuned for part two of the interview next week! Useful links - Marek on Twitter Teaching English as a Lingua Franca book on Amazon. TEFL Equity Advocates website. TEFL Equity Advocates Facebook Group. TEFL Equity Advocates on...

This week we talk about ...that thing. The year 2020. And it's only July! We had to eventually, so after putting the podcast on hiatus during the school-year lockdown to cut down on our screen time, we look back on it now. Below we've supplied a few links to some stuff that worked for us that you might find useful. We've used Whereby, Zoom (We're sure you've heard of it), Jitsi, Web Whiteboard, which was bought over and became Miro (Just to point out, we've not used Miro since they...

This week Alan and Chris (joined very briefly by Victor) go gardening and discuss the old view of Parsnips in ELT, and discuss what the new Parsnips should look like, introduced by Aleksandra Popovski in her MaWSIG blog last year. And Alan gets left with the hardest question he's ever had to face - which to live without, Jamón or Queso?! We we discuss why the old Parsnips of Politics, Alcohol, Religion, Sex, Narcotics, -isms, and Pork should be universally replaced by Peace, Action,...

This week Alan and Chris discuss the little things in the classroom that makes a big difference. Alan likes thumbs on table, while Chris prefers to give the finger. From what should be on your class walls (if possible), entering the classroom, slight cultural differences, body language, how activities are started to how we get attention, as well as the vocabulary we use and then to exiting the classroom, it's the little things that count towards making our classrooms a much more effective...

This week we discuss feedback in the classroom as a teacher, as a student, what we like and use, plus some interesting stats from courses, as well as Alan goes to Emerald City on the Yellow Brick Road. One of the methods we mention is the Stop-Start-Continue method of obtaining feedback from students. As we as using Google Docs for online feedback from students, which can be used by multiple people at one time. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain...

This week we talk about our own language learning journeys and how that has influenced our own teaching. Being two bookish English teachers, our first recommendation is get students reading, reading and a bit more reading - but alas, they might not be too into that, so it's important to get them using the language in ways that interests them. The website Alan mentioned was 1001 Reasons To Learn Spanish, where you can find all of Juan Fernandez's work, for free, to get people learning...

This week Alan and Chris are joined by Victor Hugo Medina in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to discuss all things pronunciation. What difficulties do students have, what problems do teachers have, and is there an issue with academic native speaker bias? Victor tells us his story in teaching, after his BA and MA in Linguistics, and how students can overcome some of the main problems with English pronunciation. Alan mentioned a paper written by Robin Walker in Issue 90 of ET Professional available...

This week Alan and Chris are honoured to be joined by teacher and World Englishes researcher Claudia Schiavon for a chat about English all around the world. We go into detail about what World Englishes are, the craic you can have with them, what we can do in class to help our students get used to them and why 'would + past simple' somehow equals the future tense. For more details on what was talked about on the podcast, check out the links in our show notes. ----more---- We're two...

This week Chris interviews Alan after he presented his research into Emotional Intelligence at the annual ELT Ireland Conference in Dublin. Alan discusses the importance of knowing about Emotional Intelligence and Mood in the classroom, and based on the science, offers some tips to take into the classroom. For a detailed looked at the recommended reading, check out our show notes. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together...

This week Chris and Alan are delighted to be joined by James M. Taylor and Ilá Coimbra who discussed their self published book Raise Up!. We discussed all things ELT, diversity, inclusion and what is next for the Raise Up! book series. You can buy the book here - https://taylormadeenglish.com/raiseup/ And follow the project on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/raiseupforelt The money raised from Raise Up! goes to support Casa 1, a community shelter in São Paulo set up to support those of...

How do you rule your classes? Alan and Chris discuss the do's and don'ts of classroom management, and talk about what works for us when teaching different levels. ----more---- The two books mentioned that we recommend in this podcast are Learning Teaching - Jim Scrivener Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom - Chris Roland We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT...

This week Alan caught up with Arthur McKeown for a quick chat. Arthur, now retired (apparently), created The Belfast Programme with the help of the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre and HAPANI to help pre-esol level students gain enough English to improve their standing on arrival in Ireland. Arthur has also just been awarded the ESOL Champion Award, from IATEFL ESOL Special Interest Group. Full links to all the organisations are available in our show notes. ----more---- We're two...

We offer tips on how to counter some of the English Language's worst offenders for learners, such as phrasal verbs, prepositions, pronunciation and word order. Check our blog for more detailed show notes and some material you might find useful. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it. Contact us at any of the links...

We share some ideas on seasonal and Christmas lessons, one off lessons to get students heads out of the books, plan for low class numbers and some recommendations and ideas you can take into your classroom. Extended show notes with links available here. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it. Contact us at any of...

This week we try something new, Chris and Alan attempt a live podcast! The subject of this week being what do managers not get about teachers? And what do teachers not get about managers? Also we discuss career trajectories available to ELT teachers, and why so many of them become teacher trainers. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd...

We're all teachers so we have to plan what we are going to do in the year. Also mallards? This week Chris and Alan offer some tips on lesson planning, our own ideas, some other teacher tips, and some reading material that we think may help. Extended show notes with links to what was discussed is available on our blog. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT...

In a break from the norm, Chris and Alan discuss some listener questions - and not just about teaching. We discuss our Masters programmes, empathy, vocation vs professionalism, workload and good lessons vs good teachers.----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it. Contact us at any of the links below - Website -...

Welcome to season two! This week Chris and Alan take a deep dive into some really loaded questions about good teachers, good lessons and good practices. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it. Contact us at any of the links below - Website - https://phrasallyverbocious.podbean.com/ Email -...

Bonus Episode! This week Chris and Alan discuss things to do in that very first class of the new year, plus ideas to take into the year ahead. ----more---- We're two teachers who have worked across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Italy. We worked together for two years in Cáceres, Spain. We've plenty to say on the ELT world, so thought we'd make a podcast on it. Contact us at any of the links below - Website - https://phrasallyverbocious.podbean.com/ Email -...