Kieran Donaghy, Director of the School for Training, writes about the benefits of Extensive Reading for English language students.   What is extensive Reading?   In simple terms Extensive Reading is reading as many easy books as possible for pleasure, and can be contrasted with intensive reading which is slow, careful reading of a short, […]

Kieran Donaghy, Director of the School for Training, writes about teaching older adults learners I taught older students (from about 55 to 85 years of age) for over ten years. I loved teaching them because of their enthusiasm, motivation, positive attitude and kindness. I’ve recently produced a short film about some of my older learners […]

I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for over 12 years. Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging […]

Join Kieran Donaghy on the Empathy in Language Teaching online course. Explore why empathy is particularly important in language teaching and how empathy can be developed among both language teachers and learners.     Course description Get exclusive video lectures, handouts and articles. A 3-week course with continual support at every stage and detailed feedback […]

Explore principles and possibilities for exploiting film and video in your classroom. Find out how we can use visual narratives to get out students listening, thinking, writing, speaking and collaborating. Get exclusive video lectures, handouts, frameworks, lesson plans and film guides. A 3-week course with continual support at every stage and detailed feedback on the […]

Join Kieran Donaghy on the Empathy in Language Teaching online course. Explore why empathy is particularly important in language teaching and how empathy can be developed among both language teachers and learners.     Course description Get exclusive video lectures, handouts and articles. A 3-week course with continual support at every stage and detailed feedback […]