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Minimal resources: The immediate environment
Scott Thornbury offers some valuable tips and ideas for using your immediate environment to make imaginative language lessons.
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Grammar and vocabulary: seven ways to help students enjoy grammar
Seven suggestions of ways to help students enjoy grammar.
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Lesson Share: Miscellaneous: English I've liked
This is particularly good for learners who arrive for a lesson in a hurry and full of other concerns, and benefit from having a few quiet moments to switch into English and re-establish a positive attitude towards the language.
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Methodology: teaching English word order
An article discussing English word order and possible teaching solutions.
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Methodology: stress patterns in English
An article discussing English stress pattern rules and how to teach them.
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Methodology: using video in English teaching
Advice and suggestions on how to use video in English teaching.
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General: teaching English one-to-one
Long one-to-one lessons can sometimes be exhausting for both teacher and learner. Here are some ideas for keeping them fresh.
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Imaginative materials: teaching English using timetables
Printed train or bus timetables are often available as free leaflets or can be downloaded and printed from the internet. This simple resource can be used in a number of ways.
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Imaginative materials: using movies to teach English
Most students enjoy watching a good movie, whether at the cinema or on TV. Here are a few ideas for making use of their interest and knowledge to create some unusual activities.
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Skills: telephoning in English
For many learners using the telephone in English is a particularly nerve-wracking experience. As well as all the standard "telephone phrases" learners need strategies for getting a failing interaction to work. Here are some ideas for confidence-building in class.
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Skills: teaching English intonation
Many teachers find intonation difficult to teach. As a result they may avoid it. But intonation can be fun to work with - and it can make other language areas such as grammar easier to teach. Here are some ideas.
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Skills: teaching listening in English
Modern coursebooks provide some excellent recorded material, but it can be exciting to supplement this with more unusual sources of listening work. Here are some ideas.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: The hot potato
There is no particular linguistic aim for this activity but it works well as a brief warmer and to encourage students to use mime and facial expression.
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Lesson Share: Energizers: The knot
This activity probably works best as a way of energizing a group, particularly after lunch!
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Lesson Share: Energizers: Shout!
I teach in Hong Kong, where the classes can be very quiet, and take lots of warming up. This one is great for quiet classes, and hugely versatile (no preparation!).
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Lesson Share: Energizers: Stand in line
You can use this activity as an icebreaker at the start of a new course when the learners do not know each other or simply as a warmer at the start of the day.
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Vocabulary: plural noun endings
Rules for the use of /s/, /z/ or /IZ/ as the ending for plural nouns.
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Encounters of a spooky kind
An American English worksheet to dictate part of a story and to write down what your partner dictates to you.