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Trying to increase your GCSE uptake? This is what we are trying…
With the languages uptake in British schools and universities on the decline, what can we do to reverse the trend? The British Council in...
Teaching and learning
Silvia Bastow
Jan 23, 2022
4 min read
Listening or breaking the 'fear' barrier…
On this post, I would like to concentrate on the listening skill, which based on a survey I did with my students, they find the hardest...
Listening
Silvia Bastow
Jan 16, 2021
6 min read
Translation – tangled, rock climbing, bubble, mosaic, ping-pong….
My students don’t actually realise that I teach them a ‘foreign’ language through a ‘foreign’ language. As I am not English, speak with...
Writing
Silvia Bastow
Jan 1, 2021
5 min read
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