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28 Apr 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Grammar is one of the hardest things to teach. I mean, I can explain until the cows come home, but my students don’t seem to internalise the difference between the simple past tense and past continuous tense. How can I teach it in such a way that my...
15 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments odin59
Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the way we perceive and use money. Since the emergence of Bitcoin in 2009, followed by thousands of other digital assets such as Ethereum, Binance Coin, and Ripple, the global financial landscape has been transfor...
9 Jan 2025 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I don’t always have time to plan my lessons, so I was happy to have the capacity to do so today. My WALT (We Are Learning To) statement was Learn the in- and im- prefixes. This was a word attack strategy as understanding how to work out the meaning...
3 Nov 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Compiled these nuggets of information while my children were playing merrily at the indoor playground. I bet you will learn a thing or two from this! ‘Dis’ and ‘de’ are both Latin prefixes ‘Dis’ means ‘apart’ If you dismiss employees, you send them...
24 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments JaiChai
I'm not usually a viewer of non-English movies, but I must admit, I really enjoyed this film. The acting is good. And the the true story is amazing! It's about Seryozha Aleshkov. A six year old boy who was awarded the medal ‘For Combat Merit’, recei...
30 Aug 2024 2 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
I embrace the advent of Gen AI because the prevalence of such tools empowers me to plan and design lessons that are tailored to my students’ needs more efficiently and effectively. I relish examining the multitude of tools and capitalising on diff...
4 Aug 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
Special thanks to @carlosfandango who told me that ‘amok’ comes from a Malay word for ‘frenzied’. Thanks to him, I had a lovely conversation with my colleague the other day. I’m so excited about this discovery that I wrote the following script for my...
4 Jun 2024 10 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
It’s typical for people to have many microcareers, but I have been an English teacher all my working life. Almost two decades, in fact. It’s a decision that marinates and gains depth of flavour with time, for my love for the English language has grow...
25 Apr 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei
My class wrote pretty decent responses to my inaugural journal. I even managed to pick up four good words that they had used: lethargic, motivated, mentality, and athlete. Here’s me continuing the good practice this week: Dear 1S7, Did you know that...
19 Jan 2024 1 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not doubting the professionalism of my colleagues. However, as the Literacy Support I/C who is tasked to smoothen the learning journey of students with dyslexia in my school, I felt compelled to teach my colleagues to learn ho...
