English Workshop

CONTENTS:

▼  Kiosk
▼  Students' Corner
▼  Teachers' Corner
▼  Confessions of a TEFL

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Kiosk

LEO (Link Everything Online) is an online English dictionary which I use regularly myself. ► Link Platform

The "Chronology of Great Britain" offers some basic information on the history of the British Isles. ► PDF

The "Chronology of the United States" is the American equivalent. ► PDF

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Students' Corner

All material that is intended to be handed out to students will be found here, arranged in the following sections:

• Classes 5 and 6 / age group up to 11
• Classes 7 and 8 / age group 12 - 13
• Classes 9 and 10 / age group 14 - 15
• Classes from 11 upwards / age group 16 plus
• Odds and ends

For navigation, use the link box in the upper left corner.

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Teachers' Corner

For the teaching community the following sections are offered:

• the TEFL material section with some material that fellow teachers may find helpful or even inspiring;
• the Phonetics section, which I am afraid only very few people outside the English teaching community may find interesting at all;
• the Miscellany section, which includes what I would like to call a teacher's toolbox.

For navigation, use the link box in the upper left corner.

On this site you may come across the problem of phonetic transcription. If you wish to get hold of a font that renders the standard phonetic graphs within the Unicode reference system (as is urgently recommended), you will find some useful advice in the Phonetics section.

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Confessions of a TEFL

The acronym TEFL has come into use as an abbreviation of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, or of Teacher(s) of English as a Foreign Language. By the same token, I assume a LEFL would be a Learner of English as a Foreign Language.

Being a TEFL myself, I am occasionally tempted to associate with the acronym the German words "Teufel" (devil) or "Töffel" (moron), especially when my professional pride is challenged, and occasionally dwarfed, by the educational and administrative powers that be.

At any rate I feel that I owe so much of my professional routine to my colleagues and no less to my students of more than 30 years of teaching that it seems only fair to hand on at least some of it to present-day TEFLs and LEFLs.

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15.03.2009 © Martin Lipka