5-Min Pro · Professional Development on a Budget
The idea — Paid CPD is not the only CPD. The most effective professional development often costs nothing and happens between lessons: peer observation, reading one…
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ELT365 · Day 179 — The Follow-Up Task
Idea — A follow-up task bridges from receptive to productive — learners respond to what they read or heard, not just answer questions about it. Example…
ReadProfessional English · Lesson 10 — Job Interview English — Four Phrases That Get You Through
Four situations come up in every English-language interview. A ready phrase for each reduces anxiety and keeps you sounding fluent under pressure. Examples ‘That’s a great…
ReadELT365 · D160 — Post-Listening: Where Input Becomes Output
Idea — The recording stops — now learners use what they understood. Speaking, writing, debating, or role-playing based on the audio transfers receptive input to productive…
ReadELT365 · D154 — Gist listening — one question, whole text
Idea — A gist task asks one global question requiring a single listen. Its job is to orient the learner to the whole text, not chase…
ReadELT365 · Day 171 — Jigsaw Listening: Information-Gap in Reception
Idea — In jigsaw listening, different groups hear different parts of a text, then pool information. The information gap is real — no group can answer…
ReadELT365 · Day 169 — Post-listening tasks that develop the text
Idea — Post-listening is where language learning deepens. The text becomes a springboard: discuss opinions, analyse the grammar, role-play a follow-up. “Discuss in pairs” is not…
ReadELT365 · Day 179 — Post-reading and listening tasks — into production
Idea — After comprehension, learners should do something with the content. A productive follow-up — discussion, writing, roleplay — consolidates language and creates a genuine communication…
ReadELT365 · Day 170 — Predicting content before you play the recording
Idea — Prediction activates top-down processing and reduces cognitive load. Give learners the topic and task before playing anything. They arrive at the text with expectations…
ReadBuilding My Own Job Lead Automation System (and Why It Was Harder Than I Expected)
Published: 25 June 2026 · By Sourov Deb For the past few weeks, I’ve been building a system to automatically find English teaching and training opportunities…
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