Daily Archive for April 6th, 2009

Languagelab at IATEFL 2009

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jessie
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Hi Students !

The Languagelab Team have been in Cardiff for the IATEFL conference 2009. We have met a lot of interesting people including members of our team based in Spain  – Daf Smirnov and Cristina ,the Spanish language team at Languagelab, who were lovely !

We will be posting some videos for you over the next few days so you can get some tips from people for Grammar and IELTS and also watch a video of the Languagelab Team taking part in a Pecha Kucha - we will be be having our own Pecha Kucha evening at Languagelab soon so watch this space. Ok so enjoy the video and if you want to participate in the Pecha Kucha evening contact jessie@languagelab.com.

Choosing the right grammar book….

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Iffaf
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Scott Thornbury is a teacher, teacher trainer, text book writer and an inspiration to many people and this is why I suggest that when you’re trying to decide on what English language learning book to buy, you look for one that he’s written.

If you go to his website you’ll not only be able to find the right book for you but you’ll also be able to follow him on ‘twitter (write to jessie@languagelab.com if you want to know more about what ‘twitter’ is and how to do it).

Scott Thornbury encourages teachers and students to think about the best way to learn vocabulary and grammar.  He refers to something called ‘collocations.’  A collocation is a grouping of words in a sentence.  When we learn which groups of words go together we may find it easier to put phrases together.

For example, do we say ‘turn on the button’ or ‘push the button?’  Do we say ‘watch television’ or ’see television?’

In my next blog, I’ll be looking at collocations,

See you next Monday!

Grammar Girl at Languagelab