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Explore how teaching body language can help learners develop their ability to understand others. 

When, in a speech in Cape Town in 1966, Robert F Kennedy invented the 'ancient Chinese curse’, "May he live in interesting times" he might well have been talking about education at the beginning of the 21st century; for while the ubiquity of Internet access has indeed made our times interesting, it has also cursed educators into poorly defined online roles.

When teaching any language whether it is a word, a phrase or a verb form, at some point it will be essential to convey and check that your students have understood the meaning.

The sociocultural element in learning is particularly sensitive in EFL because in acquiring a language there is, to some extent, an appropriation of a cultural identity too.

In this series of articles I want to explore with you a number of different filters you can fix onto the lens of your thinking camera.

For too long now the verb phrase has been the dominant focus of attention in course books, syllabuses, and teacher training programmes.

Over the past decade there has been a huge increase in the power and abilities of computers to digitise, store and analyse text.

In this article I want to share with you a major thinking frame, that has been of great use to me in my teaching and that comes from the work of Antoine de la Garanderie, a major French pedagogical thinker.

Some time ago, I wrote an article about different ways responding to your students’ written work. This present article builds on those ideas and gives suggestions for how students can respond to each other’s writings.