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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

Sunday, 29 January 2017

Saint Valentine's Day - links and resources

Loathe it or hate it, if you've left the house recently you will not have been able to escape the hearts, flowers and tacky cards remind...

Sunday, 4 December 2016

Google translate - you get what you pay for.

As the term has worn on, my students have got more confident. Sadly, this means that in order to try to impress me, they have fallen into ...

Saturday, 26 November 2016

How the Snipping Tool makes better linguists

Quite an intriguing title for this one. My school has an amazing VLE ( Frog ) I mainly use the Assignment Manager feature to set homewor...

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Peer feedback - reading and writing

My last blogpost was about peer assessing speaking , today it's all about reading and writing. Now, I really don't like marking...

Monday, 24 October 2016

Peer feedback - speaking

Peer feedback is something I've been doing a lot of recently. It cuts down on teacher feedback and shows progress almost immediately. ...

Saturday, 10 September 2016

European Day of Languages

Just a short post. In 2009 I started a wiki people could join, share ideas and links specifically for European Day of Languages. It stil...

Monday, 2 May 2016

Nothing to say...

I haven't been to any MFL events for a while. The last time I went to an event was the ALL MFL Teachmeet in October 2015 in Newcastle....

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