A few weeks ago, the students at our Tower Hamlets class wrote a letter to David Cameron and Ian Duncan Smith about their views on workfare. Today we received a response from 10 Downing Street and the Department of Work and Pensions; this was great as we feel like we’re […]
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Yesterday we had a day of story-telling for families in Battersea. We started with the story of Little Red Riding Hood, which was a familiar story with an unfamiliar title for most of the group. We discussed the moral, the meaning of the wolf and the various endings. Does the wolf […]
In our Tower Hamlets class on Monday students discussed the headline “1200 killed by Mental Health Patients” which recently appeared on the front page of The Sun. Some of the points discussed were that the cover stigmatises people suffering from mental illness and uses sensationalism to sell newspapers and therefore make […]
Today at Tower Hamlets College we launched the Power of Discussion (POD) research project. The research, funded by the British Council’s ESOL Nexus Project, will investigate the impact lots of discussion has on language development. We want to find out what makes a good discussion, what topics provoke most interest, […]
On Thursday 10th October English for Action took part in the adult learning annual celebration at Wandsworth Town Hall. Seven EFA students attended along with their teacher, Dermot. The students received certificates from Wandsworth Council for their success in the last academic year. It was a very pleasant evening with food and drink, […]
On September 28th, Action for ESOL and Boycott Workfare teamed up to deliver a workshop for ESOL teachers on benefits cuts and changes. In recent years, there have been more and more conditions put on benefits, with a growing ‘sanctions culture’ at Job Centres and programmes like ‘workfare’ which threaten […]