Dear Colleagues,

Have you ever experienced a tipping point - “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire” (The Tipping Point, Gladwell 2002)? People usually experience it in the most unexpected moment and at the most unusual place – while walking, sleeping, reading, driving, …  We would like to know what your tipping point was. What has made you change your teaching practice, attitude to work, relationship with a colleague, …?  Maybe your story or experience will be somebody’s tipping point. Maybe you will experience your tipping point while browsing this issue.

The winners of the Longman Pearson February quiz are Vesna Novicic and Ariana Basaric. Congrats!

Please keep sharing

Best,

Editorial team

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Andragogy and Language Learning Introduction
By Marija Ivanovic
One of the fields in adult education that has gained significant attention over the last couple of years, as a result of propagation of lifelong learning, is language teaching and learning.
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Fun Filler Activities 2
By Biljana Naumoska, M.A.,
“Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Department of English Language and Literature, Skopje
This article is a continuation of my previous article, published in the November 2009 issue of the Newsletter, dealing with some more fun filler activities, activities that can be used either as a warm-up, revision, or between two units, or grammar sections, for example.
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How To Use Graded Readers: A Lesson Plan
By Dragana Filipovic, Longman Serbia
Most teachers would agree that the best way to improve your knowledge of a foreign language is to go and live among its speakers. The next best way is to read extensively in it. The problem is that our young students read very little or don’t read at all. So they enter what we can call the vicious circle.
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ALIBI (Role-Play in an EFL Classroom)
By Aneta Naumoska
“Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
I heartily recommend this activity to teachers of English all around the globe, which is a slightly different variant of the original “Alibi”, because of its nature of easy modification and its application to the multitude of learning styles.
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Disjuncture, Self-Actualization and Enlightenment for Life
By Jelena Rakovic, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University in Copenhagen
In the contemporary world of technological advances, scientific developments, informational advances and occupation specialization, there is a constant lack of objective truths that are absolute and teachable. Lives of the young we are forming today will be constantly affected by choice, change, risk, and insecurity.
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Europeanization and the Reform of the Initial Vocational Education and Training System in the Republic of Serbia
By Jelena Rakovic, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University in Copenhagen
As a country in a transitional period, Serbia is an example of the transformation from the national, industrial system to the global, international system of the knowledge society. With a plan to integrate itself in the European Union at one point, Serbia looks up to the EU policies and recommendations, comparing and aligning its educational reformations to the European ones.
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Penguin Readers
Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter
Penguin
Whether it is fiction or non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies or big film tie-ins, the new-look Penguin Readers series really does offer something for everyone!
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Teacher’s notes (PDF file 348KB)
Activity worksheet (PDF file 149KB)
Answer keys (PDF file 132KB)

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