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Welcome to the rambling thoughts of a 50 year old languages teacher with too much time on his hands, most of it spent in the kitchen. If you have any comments or questions about language learning or resources please email or follow me on twitter @dominic_mcg

Saturday, 22 May 2010

A level French and www.ados.fr

In 4 weeks, or thereabouts, my A2 students will be sitting their final exams before going off to study for their degrees in Child Psychology...

Sunday, 16 May 2010

The importance of learning the gender of nouns.

This week I gave one of my classes their first French vocabulary test. (Don't gasp, I've only taught them for 3 lessons.) One child ...

Saturday, 8 May 2010

What to do with Year 9...

At this time of year UK based language teachers face a huge problem. What do I do with my year 9? Most of them are not going to continue wit...

Sunday, 18 April 2010

Punishing the whole class for the stupidity of a few?

Thursday evening was TMNE10 and like the 2 previous meets it was a great success and I learned a lot. It was nice to meet some "old fa...

Monday, 12 April 2010

TeachMeetNE10

It's back. TeachMeetNE10 will take place on 29th April 2010 at the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers , Newc...

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Fun with Imagechef

I've been a fan of Imagechef for a while now. It's a great way to motivate students into being creative and having fun with languag...

Sunday, 4 April 2010

The end of an era (Part 2)

Last week I left my school for the last time. I'd been there exactly 11 years and, for my own personal sanity, I needed to leave before...

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