Bruno Leys
@brunoleys.bsky.social
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ELT teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer - concert band conductor & composer
Glad to play my part in this wonderful event once more!
#iatefl
#iatefl2026
17 days ago
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I had a great time doing this session with an enthusiastic and engaged group of English language teachers at
#Lingofest
2027 in UCLL Hasselt today. A great event year after year!
22 days ago
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Enjoyed myself delivering this CPD session for teachers at
#CNO
University of Antwerp with a fully engaged and enthusiastic group of teachers. See? I don’t only talk about grammar.😉 Next stop: Lingofest at UCLL Diepenbeek on March 12th.
about 1 month ago
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A WILL+ (bare) infinitive expressing a promise, an engagement and also a comparative and superlative form of ‘fast’ in the same ad.
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
about 1 month ago
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Two WILL+infinitive examples. The first one as part of a conditional expressing a promise, an engagement. The second one more of a certainty, you can count on our quality.
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
about 2 months ago
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Three imperatives expressing instructions and wishes.
#ReallyRealGrammar
#linguisticlandscapes
about 2 months ago
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Really enjoyed giving a talk at
#CNO
Talendag at the University of Antwerp last Friday. A very motivated group of teachers joined in on exploring how we can use accessible poetry as an engaging language learning tool.
#elt
2 months ago
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Present simple for a past event in news headlines. An example showing that we use the tense for much more than just present time reference.
#reallyrealgrammar
4 months ago
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Guess I’ll be heading to
#brighton
again next spring. Hope to see many of my
#iatefl
friends there! And oh yes, surprise surprise, I’ll be talking about grammar teaching 🤭(again).
4 months ago
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Who said imperatives are (mainly?) used for orders?
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
7 months ago
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A typical example of a common conditional (though not so often taught) present simple + imperative for (strong) advice
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
7 months ago
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Imperatives used as encouragement, rather than orders or instructions.
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
8 months ago
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Imperative with please for a request and modal might expressing possibility
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
10 months ago
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Conditional with imperative expressing a request and interesting use of a plural verb (check) with the subject ‘Our team’ - team as a group of people?
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
10 months ago
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Funny message in the Erasmus Hogeschool canteen at
#belta25
with an imperative inspired by the movie Forrest Gump. Once again not an order or command, but rather an encouragement
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
11 months ago
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Dries Debackere from De Taalsector sharing his main takeaways from
#IATEFL2025
at
#belta25
11 months ago
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Ron Mukerji showing a series of AI tools that can support teachers at
#belta25
11 months ago
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Mario Lecluyze sharing his experiences with using ChatGPT for marking his students’ writing assignments in his inspiring talk at
#belta25
11 months ago
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Plenary speaker Grzegorz Spiewak delivering a thought-provoking and engaging talk at
#belta25
11 months ago
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And
#belta25
has started!
11 months ago
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One of the two closing plenary speakers, 11-y-old Ali Waters, brought on stage in
@emilybrysonelt.bsky.social
‘s workshop at
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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doodling and plenty of visuals in
@emilybrysonelt.bsky.social
‘s workshop obviously
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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@emilybrysonelt.bsky.social
starting by showing her own role models
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Hugh Dellar discussing how we’re shaped as teachers at
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Neil McMillan including some poetry humour in his highly entertaining plenary at
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Neil McMillan quoting different findings stating that implicit learning/ knowledge is in fact better
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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This session on linguistic landscape tasks contained fine samples of English and nice learner reflections.
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Trying out the Lightning Talks format (receptively)
#IATEFL2025
Quite a feat to share meaningful content in just three minutes. (And when not meaningful, the pain’s over in just 3 minutes)
12 months ago
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Luiz Otavio Barros encouraging us to ‘get dirty with language’ in his talk on Demand High teaching
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Michael Carrier quoting Chomsky ‘AI is high tech plagiarism’
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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@danielxerri.bsky.social
sharing this fine quote from Donald Freeman on research.
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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@danielxerri.bsky.social
@danielxerri asking whether ‘research’ is a ‘dirty’ word?
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Rita Divéki delivering a very practical talk on AI-powered discussions on controversial issues
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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@leopaladino.bsky.social
Leandro Paladino delivering a great talk on how to get your students beyond B2 level. And a lead role for Leo Selivan‘s cat.
12 months ago
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Gemma Archer delivering a great talk on decoding Scottish speech
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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A few pictures from Dagmara Tanska’s engaging and highly informative and practical workshop on ADHD. Without any doubt the best I’ve seen on the topic.
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Great pictures and content in Eric Nicaise’s talk I cycled across the UK and I teach culture
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel, professor in cognitive psychology talking about spaced and retrieval practice
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Engaging workshop by @leoselivan on (linguistic) factors that affect L2 vocabulary learning.
#Iatefl2025
12 months ago
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Jon Hird sharing some practical ideas to integrate spoken grammar in our teaching.
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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David Byrne and Mark Heffernan showing what they consider as real-life objectives. How will this lesson help you in your life.
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Kerstin Sandstrom sharing a listening pairs activity as a less fatiguing alternative to dictogloss
#IATEFL2025
12 months ago
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Julie Norton and Heather Buchanan mentioning ‘principled eclecticism’ as a kind of current methodology principle
#iatefl2025
12 months ago
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Sounds familiar what Ken Lackman is suggesting here, just like
#ReallyRealGrammar
#iatefl2025
12 months ago
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@kenlackman starting off with a bold statement: collocations are not important
#iatefl2025
12 months ago
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Ian Pemberton sharing estimates of native speaker vocabulary size
#iatefl2025
12 months ago
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Andrew Walkley rightly stating we should position our teaching focus towards the language students are going to actually use
#iatefl2025
12 months ago
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A plenary without a PowerPoint or Prezi. It can be done! Just the inspiring voice of ELT living legend Catherine Walter at
#IATEFL2025
on what has changed over the past 50 years of language teaching.
12 months ago
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Outgoing IATEFL president @PopovskiAleks opening
#IATEFL2025
What a wonderful conference venue here in Edinburgh!
12 months ago
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Three examples of imperatives that are all but orders (even though that’s often the first coursebook usage rule). These are rather advice, encouragement or invitations. These might even pop up in my
#iatefl2025
talk on Thursday.
#ReallyRealGrammar
#LinguisticLandscapes
12 months ago
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