The CRAAP test - how to evaluate sources
Currency: the timeliness of the information • When was the information published or posted? • Has the information been revised or updated? • Is the information current or out-of date for your topic? • Are the links functional?
Culture - the fifth language skill
What do we mean by 'culture'? Many teachers quote the Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede’s maxim ‘Software of the Mind’, the subtitle of his 2005 book ‘Cultures and Organisations’. What culture covers is the commonly held traditions, values and ways of behaving of a particular community. It includes what we used to call ‘British and American life and institutions’, ‘daily life’ and also cultural artefacts, such as the arts or sports.
Six methods of detection in Sherlock Holmes
Between Edgar Allan Poe’s invention of the detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet in 1887, chance and coincidence played a large part in crime fiction. Nevertheless, Conan Doyle resolved that his detective would solve his cases using reason. He modeled Holmes on Poe’s Dupin and made Sherlock Holmes a man of science and an innovator of forensic methods. Holmes is so much at the forefront of detection that he has authored several monographs on crime-solving techniques. In most cases the well-read Conan Doyle has Holmes use methods years before the official police forces in both Britain and America get around to them. The result was 60 stories in which logic, deduction, and science dominate the scene.
Word on the Street - Murder Mystery
Ashlie: Look, Stephen! Another murder. We need to find the killer before he strikes again.
Macmillan Business
The Business Podcasts are interviews focusing on working life in the UK. The podcasts offer authentic listening practice for you to use with – or recommend to – your business English students. Episode 1: Nils, on working life in the UK – Pre-intermediate Download Listening Worksheet
Edmond Locard, Sherlock Holmes, forensic science, exchange principle
„When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.” – said Sherlock Holmes. Him and dr. Edmond Locard proved that if a scientist is on the side of justice, with the same abilities he will be the king of criminal investigators. Edmond Locard was born in France on the 13th of December 1877. Just a few things are known about his life.
Word on the Street - Murder Mystery
Stephen: Er, Ashlie, what are you doing? Ashlie: Looking for clues of course. Stephen: But we haven’t started yet. We’ve come away for a Murder Mystery Weekend.
Free printable Sudoku puzzles for children and all you want to know about Sudoku, the rules, the different games and great links to Sudoku websites. Great for maths skills.
Printable Sudoku for kids We have sudoku puzzles in different formats and difficulty levels. We have the 4 by 4 and 6 by 6 grids for beginners and younger students and we have 4 difficulty levels of the famous 9 by 9 format: level 1, level 2, level 3 and level 4.
Pre A1 Starters preparation
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Locard's exchange principle
In forensic science, Locard's principle holds that the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into the crime scene and leave with something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence. Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the Sherlock Holmes of France. He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace".
6 Google Jamboard activities your students willl love! – The TEFL Zone
One thing I miss about face-to-face teaching is my whiteboard. I miss writing on it, drawing, watching my students play whiteboard games or draw funny pictures! Whiteboards are a great learning tool not just for students, but teachers as well. Taking photos of my daily whiteboards really helped me reflect on my teaching when doing Delta Module 2.
Brass monkey weather
Q From Peter Grace: Over here in Queensland, it gets pretty cool in the evenings at this time of the year (though it’s probably pretty mild by UK standards). The other day, I used the expression brass monkey weather and was asked to explain. Any ideas? A The full expansion of the phrase is cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey and is common throughout the English-speaking world, though much better known now in Australia and New Zealand than elsewhere. This is perhaps surprising, since we know it was first recorded in the USA, in the 1850s.
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime review – the grisly evolution of swab justice
The other day, friends of ours were raided by the Metropolitan police, who confiscated computers and digital storage devices on suspicion of paedophile activity. The couple had neglected to secure their modem with a password, but the police needed to make sure that the modem had indeed been “compromised”. After eight weeks, the computers came back with no evidence on them of child pornography. “It’s a horrible thing for you and your family to have gone through,” said the detective constable apologising for the unjust suspicion.
Learn English and Legal Vocabulary with Suits - English4Good
The show is about business and legal matters. If you want to sound more natural in your speaking, you definitely will like this activity. Suits is a legal drama show set in a New York City Law firm that hires only the best students from Harvard. Plot
